When you live in Las Vegas, you put up with four months of 100-degree weather. And this summer was a "cooler" one, so there wasn't 117-degree days furnace-blasting Southern Nevada.
So when these lovely days of 70 degrees arrive in late October here in Red Rock Canyon, it's a sin to not roll out the bicycle and pedal the famed Red Rock Loop.
And who do I meet near the top of the Red Rock climb between Mile 4 and the scenic drive overlook but the gang at Escape Adventures and owner Jared Fisher.
Escape Adventures is the premier bike-touring operation in the western U.S. For today's Red Rock action, Jared was working a corporate tour, with the show attendees doing the bike ride on both bicycles and e-bikes.
The weather was exquisite. I was dragging at the Red Rock Homestead. But as soon as I began bicycling there was the magic of the pedaling rhythm along State Route 159 as I headed for the Red Rock Loop entrance.
I also bike a monster single-speed Surly Pugsley, a beast of a steel-framed bike that makes cycling a road bike so much qui ker.
The Red Rock Loop was quiet around 2:20 PM as the tours of e-bikers and scooter riders and small go-carters were done.
Look at this afternoon.
Bicycling is my church, my emotional safe haven, my healing center.
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Keep on rolling everyone and I will see you at the mountain bike races and Pedal Fest this weekend in Blue Diamond.
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