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Southwest / Great Arizona Cycling Routes site BikeAZ.org by AZ Bike Associaton

« on: September 27, 2021, 02:01:02 pm »

I used to be a member of The Arizona Bicycle Association as  a rider. Their new site located at BikeAZ.org is is awesome for bike route suggestions, maps and they even now have web cams. Tucson is really incredible for cycling. Rick

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Southwest / Re: Great Tucson Bike Rental Service

« on: September 27, 2021, 01:58:37 pm »

My favorite Tucson bike rental company was sold out here on my recent trip to Tucson. And it is September! Turns out all of the shops have stopped renting bikes because of Covid and the shortage.  Found Tucsonbicyclerentals.com and I picked up their last 56 premium! Whew! I would have been left having to buy hiking shoes to do some hiking. Bikes are far and few between now! This place as rental pickup at their central and Oro Valley Loop locations. Crazy crazy world we live in!!! In the past, I strolled into Tucson in September and had pick of the litter.

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Southwest / Re: Great Tucson Bike Rental Service

« on: January 25, 2017, 11:24:29 pm »

I was with a group of Adventure Cyclists last year and we rented bikes from this service. Top notch. The guy who runs it is all about customer service. The other guys in my group rented new Specialized Roubaixs and one guy had a Trek Domane. AZ is famous for goat heads that puncture the stock tires that are on most of our bikes. They put Armadillo or Gatorskins with Kevlar lined tires on there bikes. (BEFORE you do any tour in AZ, swap out your tires! On our tour last year there might have been over 20 flats!)

I rented a really light weight aluminum bike that did the job for not very much. There were a couple of people on one tour who had a shipping disaster. Easy to just rent and forget about it. They pick up and deliver to AC.