Visiting Orlando in Late June
 

Hi,
Occasional recreational riders here... :thumb: coming to visit Orlando for 4 days. I know it's going to be super hot so we wanted to rent bikes for a few days and ride in the cool(er) mornings. Right now, we have the rental set up from West Orange Trail Bikes for $99/person.
Is there a better option? I don't even mind mind 2 junky walmart-type bikes for the same cost and then donating it to charity.

Secondly, can you give us some beginner trails that we can ride for the 3 mornings we are there? I"m pretty sure the rental comes with a rack and we will have a rental car to drive to a trail.

Scenic and not tooo strenuous...

We are staying near the Orlando Vineland Premium Outlets

Thanks!

If you are referring to West Orange Trail Bikes and Blades, their website states that they are located at mile marker 0 of the West Orange Trail, which extends for 22 miles.
I have never ridden on it, but hear that it is nice.

Is this 99 a person for three days, or 99 a person, each day?

Big difference.

At the first I would say rent the bikes and have a good time with what should be fitting well working maintained bikes.
The second, I would say buy a couple of cheap not bottom of the line BBS bikes + a "get riding right" tune at the local bike shop and then donate. (which is super cool, by the way)

We have a number of great bike trails here in Central Florida, Check out "Rails to Trails Central Fl."
Central Florida Rail-Trails - Rails-To-Trails and Orlando Trails and Maps | TrailLink

As always have fun

$99/week/person- incl the bike, helmets, car rack, lock- yes it is West Orange Trail Bikes and Blades.

it's a pretty good deal I think. But perhaps someone knows of 2 cheap bikes (ie I'm not going to pay 2x/person) then we could buy and donate.

What we'll probably do is go for a ride each morning, maybe 90 min. We take recreational rides, 10-15 mph. we both ride 17.5 inch hybrids here

thanks for the link to the trails

I ride that trail (West Orange) from time to time. When I inquired for some friends coming to visit, I believe they were asking about $25 a day for the bike. It's a great trail. From Kilarney Station (mile 0 - where the rental place is) to Apopka is about 22 miles I believe. So you can get a good ride in. At about the 5 mile mark you ride through downtown Winter Garden. Places to eat, shop, etc ...actually a couple of bike shops at this point as well. Very scenic ride. A lot of fun.

I think you'll enjoy it.

thanks, now it's $30/day. The prob with daily rentals is they don't open until 11. it's better for us (being morning people) to already have the bikes and be able to go out earlier, like 7 am

11 is a little late. Especially the way afternoons are in the summer here. The heat (it's 80* at 9 am now)and the afternoon thunderstorms pretty much everyday. I'm like you...I like to get out early and get a good ride in.

There are a lot of trails in the Orlando area.

Here's link to some places that rent in the Orlando area. I hope you find some bikes and you get some time out on them.

http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=bike...=Orlando%2C+FL

We're here Bike and Bladwes (west orange bike?) deliveredw the bikes on time yesterday. heading out this am, soon!
Bikes look good, but the car rack is the $h77iest one I've ever seen. Don't feel comfortable using it.

Guess we'll ride very locally at least today

:)

Cool ! I hope you enjoy your rides.

Final update- we took the rack back and they gave us a brand new one. No hassles.

Ahhhh... life is good again. Now enjoy the Orlando area trails!