Road riding loops or out-and-backs in Phoenix?
Any road bike riders out there? Not street motorcycles, but the kind you pedal...
Been looking for a decent 15 mile loop or out and back within 45 minutes of downtown Phoenix. I'd love to be able to roll out my door like I used to in Virginia and Florida, but the overwhelming fear of getting turned into road grease and a meat waffle by some inattentive or vindictive Phoenix driver causes me to shart in my riding shorts.
Know of anywhere decent? Something with a bike lane, or very wide shoulder, and hopefully not a butt load of traffic ripping by on it? Seems like certain members of the Phoenix drivers' guild have it out for cyclists and would love to turn my thick ass into a hood ornament.
Directions? Loops? A little help for someone trying to rack up miles before the fun bunch descends on Phoenix in mid-April?
Road riding loops or out-and-backs in Phoenix?
You can chose bike lanes as a layer on Google Maps. A great way to find routes from your doorstep.
Road riding loops or out-and-backs in Phoenix?
If near downtown Phx you can take 3rd ave through the neighborhoods with bike lane, cross east on earl (kinda scketchy at times) or another one I can't remember to the hwy 51 which has bike path all the way north.
Road riding loops or out-and-backs in Phoenix?
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Phoenix: Bush Highway to Usery Pass Loop
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This is one of the best metropolitan area rides anywhere. Clockwise is tougher; counter clockwise is still pretty tough. And it's great to add in the loop thru Las Sendas neighborhood. Arizona Brumbies club makes this ride regularly if you are looking for a group ride.
Road riding loops or out-and-backs in Phoenix?
It's pretty sweet and it links with the east-west brown belt that goes all the way to 83rd ave and bell then turns up skunk creek to at least Deer Valley or down to Peoria.
When I did ride my roadie, I got sick and tired of interrupting my peaceful ride looking out for dummies in cars. It's why I stopped riding a street bike on the street in 1997.