Just saw this post. Are you here yet? Imho, Austin's a great city to be a cyclist. It's not an officially great city with an officially great cyclling infrastructure though that is getting incrementally better with some hope on the horizon, but we do have tons of fine cycling in town and out.
If you're headed down soon, the weather has had bouts of severe fineness as of late though spring winds have been rearing their head intermittently esp in the afternoon. As above on the resources. Bicycle sport shop has some routes they'll give you maps to. Jack and Adams posts some good routes on Bikely. My favorite shop is the Peddler on North Loop and they can help you with route info also. A fun low key ride is to start at the Shoal Creek hike and bike trail head at 35th and Lamar and take it down to Lady Bird Lake, do a loop around the lake and head back up Shoal Creek. That's right around 15-16 miles of primarily granite trails that cuts through the heart of Austin. The Lady Bird loop can get a little crowded on the west end esp. on weekends but if you're riding mellow through that part it's not usually too bad. http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/parkmaps/images/trails_shoal_creek.jpg http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/parkmaps/images/trails_town_lake.jpg Here's a longish road ride that's super fine this time of year: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Jack-Adam-s-Sunday-Shop-Ride And one of my favorite in city road rides: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Thursday-Night-Road-Ride-1-22-09 Oh yeah, bring allergy medicine. Even if you don't have symptoms you can probably trade it for goods and services... On Apr 1, 6:55 pm, Timothy Whalen <whalen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > I am considering taking my S&S coupled 650b Bleriot to Austin for a few days > of riding and recreation both for fun and as a little recon for a possible > place to live. Any suggestions and/or resources you can point me at? Any > thoughts on how Austin is for living in from a bicycling perspective? > > Thanks in advance, > Tim Whalen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
