[joe_obody999]

If I move to Vegas and live in e.g. Henderson, Boulder City, Enterprise, am I going to be able to bicycle from my (rented) house to a Starbucks mornings? Are the roads/drivers friendly to bicyclers? I would like to be able to get a little exercise biking to a coffee shop mornings to do some writing, sip expensive bean juice, etc.

[Raiderman]

All depends on your neighborhood. I see many bicyclists here in 89074, especially on Wigwam. I don't know if it's some sort of team or something, but they usually have those silly looking streamline helmets, and bright yellow stretch shirts with advertising all over them. There is a pretty wide lane just for bicycles.

And there are Starbucks everywhere. We have a path from our street, right across Pebble to the Smith's shopping center that has a Starbucks. Or, about 1/2 mile further is the District, and there's a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in there (which I prefer to Starbucks).

In other neighborhoods, you might not have the same results, as drivers here can be "interesting".

[jtjtjtjt]

Originally Posted by joe_obody999

If I move to Vegas and live in e.g. Henderson, Boulder City, Enterprise, am I going to be able to bicycle from my (rented) house to a Starbucks mornings? Are the roads/drivers friendly to bicyclers? I would like to be able to get a little exercise biking to a coffee shop mornings to do some writing, sip expensive bean juice, etc.

Sorry Joe, bad news for you. You might as well be asking for the safest sky diving company, safest para-sailing location, safest hang gliding glider, safest bungee jumping cord and company.

Bicycling and sharing a street with cars is inherently unsafe. Think of it this way: thousands of people die every year in car accidents. If they won't drive safe for themselves, what are the chances they are gonna look out for a bicyclist?

[Merrily Gather]

In the 89128 area we have people going for walks at all hours with their dogs and bicyclists.

It's a very bicycle friendly area. There are 5 parks within a mile: Pioneer Park, Bill Briare Park, Woofter Park, Ansan Sister City Park and the huge Charlie Kellogg and Joe Zaher Sports Complex & Darling Tennis Center with a dog park. It connects to the Lone Mountain Bike Trail which connects to several trails such as the Angel Park Trail and Bonanza Trail. I read on CD that it connects to more trails and goes even further.

[winter-rabbit]

I've bike over 600 miles in the whole valley after moving here for little over a month now.

Henderson is one of the best cities for bicycling. It has well over 120 miles of trails and bike lanes. It is great to wake up and bike to a Starbucks. I live in Summerlin, and I bike Red Rock plenty of times and gather up with other cyclists at Starbucks after!

Bicycling with cars is perfectly safe. With any on-road bicycling, you will need to always be in defensive mode. Don't assume anything.

[joe_obody999]

Thank you everybody, I like what I read here. I am up very early so I would be biking often before many drivers are even up and gone from their homes. I would wear a helmet always and also wear bright reflective neon clothing and such to best alert drivers, and I would bike as defensively as I could. All sounds good though for the most part!

[winter-rabbit]

You can bike the River Mountain Loop Trail. 32 Miles of pavement closed to autos. One of my favorite rides.

Also Red Rock has a 13 mile one way shared scenic trail. It's $7 for admission.

Originally Posted by joe_obody999

Thank you everybody, I like what I read here. I am up very early so I would be biking often before many drivers are even up and gone from their homes. I would wear a helmet always and also wear bright reflective neon clothing and such to best alert drivers, and I would bike as defensively as I could. All sounds good though for the most part!

[Buzz123]

You must be from Las Vegas if:

1. You ever ran into Siegfried in the drug store buying something to put on Roy’s tiger claw scratches…and HE recognized YOU!
2. You ignore that tall, thin, frumpy looking lady with three kids in line ahead of you at the supermarket, until you realize that last night, on stage at the Tropicana, she was the most elegant, and beautiful, showgirl you thought you’d ever seen.
3. You’re always lamenting about how much you miss the good old days when the mob ran everything.
4. You claim to have known at least fifteen or so dead entertainers that no one but you can remember.
5. You tell all your friends that you never go down on the strip unless you have visitors from out of town, but you’ve already seen seventeen shows this year.
6. You’ve ever been in the same room, at the same time, with an entertainer, a local politician, and a Mafia capo…and the conversation was about the good old days when the mob ran everything.
7. You actually know a “Blue Man”.
8. Standing on a corner, in any part of town, a friend ever asked if you’d like to go to Starbuck’s, and you ask, “The one next door, or the one across the street?”
9. You’ve ever actually fried an egg on the sidewalk…and you had scrubbed the cement down first so the egg wouldn’t go to waste.
10. You claim that you don’t like buffets, but your refrigerator is pasted with two-fers for every buffet in town.
11. You remember when “buffets” were known locally as “chuck wagons”, and real cowboys ate there along with the tourists. That was in the good old days when the mob ran everything.
12. You miss hanging out at five or six hotels that have been imploded…this week! You remember when the mob only imploded cars.
13. You ever paid $50.00 for a permanently attached, retractable sunshade for your car’s windshield from Avi at Fantastic Flea Market, and you have at least six of the free, fold-up, cardboard kind in the trunk.
14. Your windows are tinted so dark that you can’t see out during the day, let alone at night, but the temp in your car still reaches 180 degrees in July.
15. Your idea of Sunday with the family is touring several dozen of the 300 or so model homes currently available. Number and location changes daily.
16. You hate California drivers, especially when they are out touring the same model homes as you.
17. You’ve ever been snow skiing at Mt. Charleston and water skiing at Lake Mead … in the same day.
18. You tell all your friends that you miss cold weather – but when the temperature drops below 70°, you put on every sweater you own.
19. You have had to assure your friends back East that NO, we don’t all live in hotel rooms on the Strip, there is actually a very large city here with normal type houses.
20. You’ve ever stood waist deep in your pool with dust in your eyes during a sandstorm.
21. You now deny that the mob ever ran anything...but you miss them anyway.

[Buzz123]

You know you're from Las Vegas, Nevada (Nuh vaa da, not Na vah da) when...

You think a red light is merely a suggestion. (Actually, in the northern “Cow Counties” it is a suggestion of a different kind.  )

All of your out-of-state friends start to visit after September but clear out come May.

You think someone driving wearing oven mitts is clever, and, as your steering wheel has already burned off most of the skin on your hands, you make a mental note to remember to wear yours next time.

You think 16 tons of crushed rock and a few boulders make a beautiful yard.

You notice your car overheating... before you drive it.

Your house is made of stucco and has a red clay tile roof.

You no longer associate bridges with water, only shade.

You know a swamp cooler is not a happy hour drink.

You can say 115 degrees without fainting. (But it's a dry heat!!!)

Every other vehicle is a 4x4.

Vehicles with open windows have the right-of-way in the summer.

People break out coats when temperature drops below 70.

You discover, in July, it only takes two fingers to drive your car.

The pool can be warmer than you are.

You can make sun tea instantly.

Kids will ask, "What's a mosquito?"

Dogs don’t get fleas, but they do get sunburns.

People with black cars, or have black upholstery, are automatically assumed to be from out-of-state… or just plain nuts!

You notice the best parking spots are determined by shade instead of distance.

The Air Conditioner is on your list of best friends.

In summer the water from the cold water tap is the same temperature as the hot one.

Some new TV reporter will do another piece on whether you really can cook an egg on the sidewalk...you can, but who would eat it?

That same newbie will actually think that he/she is reporting “news” by telling the rest of us that there is actual gambling here.

Later that same newbie will be told by his News Director that, no, he can’t go to Nye County to do a story from inside a brothel...it’s been done to death.

You actually burn your hand opening the car door.

Sunscreen is sold year round, and kept at the front of the checkout counter; a formula less than 30spf is a joke, and you wear it just
to go to the mailbox.

No one would dream of putting vinyl/leather upholstery in a car.

When you call the operator for time and temperature and she says 2:10 and 115, you have to ask her which is which.

Your friends and relatives back east think you are now a mafia hit man if male, or a hooker if female.

And no, we do not live elsewhere and commute every day (it’s the desert, there is no elsewhere); people actually live in Las Vegas. (in houses, not hotels).


Buzz123
Go EERs!!!

[Buzz123]

I can't now, but my wife and I used to bike all over town, winter and summer. BUT! It is dangerous. In motorcycle safety classes, they teach you to be aware of the cars, because only cars are supposed to be in the road, and drivers do not expect to see you, therefore they don't. You almost become invisible to them. Bicycles are even worse in that regard. Too small.

At least now there are many bike lanes all over town. Although I see bikers not using the lanes. Instead they ride between the bike lanes and the sidewalk. Smart move. I don't know why the dummies at NDOT, or whoever does it, put the bike lanes so far out from the sidewalk next to the car travel lanes. Always look for cars in the bike lanes.