Bicycle Deployed To Cover Downtown Las Vegas Festival

When you're a photographer covering the Life Is Beautiful festival in downtown Las Vegas, you need two main tools: a camera and a bicycle.

Amazing Off Road Bicycling Right In My Back Yard

The bicycle resources that are within easy access of my front door are amazing. I biked about six miles to an amazing single-track bike trail off Town Center Drive, south of the 215. Then while biking home, I pedaled a hard-dirt trail that is being built into a paved trail along the 215 from Charleston Ave. to Alexander. On my cross road, there's a new bridge span going up today. Let's look at all this.

Heading home I took the pre-done trail along the 215 -- it's great for mt biking right now before they pave the thing. And the bridge span over Far Hills Ave is going up today.

 

Dr.Scott Celebrates No. 700 Around Red Rock Loop

Happy No. 700 Scott.

This morning I met Dr. Scott, a semi-retired veterinarian and vet teacher at Nevada State College in Henderson. We pulled up together on our road bicycles at the Red Rock Canyon scenic loop toll booth and went on to chat and bike the entire 13 miles together and the six miles back to the Summerlin shopping area at Charleston/Desert Foothills corner.

We're both in our 50s, from Brooklyn, went to Mets games in Queens and look at bicycling as an amazing meditative endeavor besides offering the obvious physical health benefits.

This morning was Scott's 700th trip around the Red Rock loop -- a startling feat. He loves to bike south Utah, too. He was  a vet in Italy for nine years and loved cycling Europe, He traveled to Asia and Africa, too. He has lived in the Vegas area for the last decade.

"You're not promised tomorrow. I love biking. I live for the here and now."

Good advice from someone who has been around the Red Rock loop a few times.

Zombies Cycling Time

Halloween is not too far away

GT Zaskar Makes Own Red Rock Scenic Loop In Summerlin Foothills

This is practically my back yard. Just hop on a GT Zaskar LE, start pedaling up the dirt hill and you can see amazing red rock formations upclose that seem so for away when you're in a car in the neighborhood.

Georgia Bicyclists Repel Proposed Anti-Bike Bill

From the League of American Bicyclists Newsletter: GEORGIA ADVOCATES BEAT BACK ANTI-BICYCLING BILL

Our friends in Georgia successfully stopped an anti-bicycling bill, HB 689, in the state legislature earlier this month. The law would have required tags and registration for bicycles, remove the right to ride two abreast in the road, place strange requirements on group rides and make some unrestricted public roadways "off limits" to bicyclists. Georgia Bikes, along with other advocates, lead the charge in getting the bill pulled from consideration. Read Georgia Bikes guest post here, and read about the victory here.

Lance Armstrong To Jail? That's What LeMond Says

Greg LeMond drops the hammer on Lance Armstrong during an Anderson Cooper interview on CNN.