Originally Posted by
Uhhu
Hi,
I am travelling to Las Vegas from the UK, early January for a conference, Mon-Fri. I will need to travel on the weekend so thought it would be worthwhile going a day or so early to get out on a bike and see somewhere. I can travel to Las Vegas, rent a bike, and go a pedal. But I am wondering if it’s good, or if there is somewhere else I should go that would be more worthwhile. For example, I can fly to LAX for a day or two, cycle, then fly to Vegas. Same for Seattle and other cities with big airports for connections. Ideally, I wouldn’t have to travel too far from the airport to the destination for starting a cycle.
Is there anywhere I should be looking that would be epic?
It would be road bike. Not afraid of hills, but I wouldn’t want to spend all day going uphill. Any advice would be appreciated.
i have checked and can see routes in vegas and places to rent a decent road bike my size.
Originally Posted by
terrymorse
San Francisco. The riding around here is hard to beat.
Rent a decent road bike from Sports Basement.
Originally Posted by
Barry2
Uhhu ,
Welcome to Bike Forums.
Not knowing your abilities it's tough to recommend a ride and not knowing what you define as "Epic" makes it tougher.
If somebody was visiting San Francisco and looking for
bragging rights........
San Francisco, out across the
Bay Bridge,
Continue into Tiburon for breakfast on the deck outside at
Sam's,
Catch the ferry to
Angel Island and bike around the entire island....
Barry
i have to agree with terrymorse.
fly from the UK direct to SFO. take bart or an uber into the city, grab dinner and a room, crash for the night. get up early and go to sports basement, rent a decent road bike. from there, go across the golden gate. ride up hawk hill and down conzelman, possibly the most scenic and epic descent in the west. then ride north through sausalito, mill valley, etc etc to fairfax. stop and grab a bite. then ride up into the hills, past alpine dam, and up to ridgecrest, which is an equally epic series of rollers that is familiar to many from a thousand car commercials. if you've still got a lot of gas left, hit the top of mount tam. either way, next comes a buttery smooth descent through the redwoods back into mill valley. back over the bridge, return the bike, take an uber to SFO, and you'll be in vegas in two hours.
there are other very amazing rides around the rest of northern california, especially the hills down the peninsula, but for epic vistas and completely unique rides, going north from SF is unbeatable.
in january there's about a one in three chance of some rain.