{"id":9715,"date":"2015-08-15T07:15:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T07:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:00:44","slug":"reno-bicycle-amazement-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/15\/reno-bicycle-amazement-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Reno Bicycle Amazement Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Didn’t go very far today. I didn’t have to. I found exciting places within a mile or so from here at Harrahs \u00a0that had me totally consumed. The first location that enthralled me was all the mysterious \u00a0green I had been seeing out my high up hotel window. It is the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). And it is huge and growing and quite obviously on a par with gaming as one of the main engines that drives this city.<\/span><\/p>\n

I even took a photo of a building that was called \u00a0the Nancy \u00a0 \u00a0and Bob Cashell Football Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long time followers of the NBG will remember that as far back as 2002 on our first first\u00a0Mayors’ Ride, Bob was there to receive riders scouts coming in from Salt Lake City.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He even drove the\u00a0Busycle<\/a> \u00a0under the famous Reno Arch \u00a0when Matt Mazzotta\u00a0and Heather Matthews brought it through in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And he and Marcia Morse received me when I rode from\u00a0San Francisco to Salt Lake City on the Eagle HiWheel<\/a> in 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even though Bob\u00a0retired last year, many still remember him fondly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the campus I ran up with \u00a0A women who just got her Masters in Anthropology. Lynn Wagener\u00a0knew a lot about UNR and about the city of Reno. \u00a0She told me there were about 18,000 students there. And I just now did a wiki search and found it began in 1874 and also has an academic staff of 1500 people. The UNR payroll I am citing does not account for all the maintenance and groundskeepers and etc that were everywhere\u00a0to\u00a0be seen as I rolled around.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One can also see that the school’s\u00a0sports teams are well looked after. They have \u00a0a beautiful football stadium. A well groomed baseball field and their basketball arena looks like it could house a professional team. All of this takes place on a hill \u00a0in what looks like the top upper half of the campus.\u00a0Familiar my own self with the name the Wolfpack, as its teams are called, \u00a0I am sure their sports teams generate a lot of TV revenue\u00a0to justify the size and quality of this sports complex.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I finished up my lap around the track, the UNR cheerleaders were not going to let me roll by without expressig their admiration of my bike, so I stopped and posed for a photo<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before I left and took a look at the Crooked Mile, the Hub Coffee Roasters and the Laughing Planet restaurant that Lynn had suggested I took some pictures of the UNR quad.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the way back to Harrahs just a short ways down the hill from the campus, I turned left and headed over to the Reno Bike Project. I didn’t see any familiar faces so I didn’t stay long. But I did pose for a picture of “my” iron works company across the street<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the way back to the hotel I took \u00a0picture of what is called the ditch that runs behind Harrahs. It is the Amtrack line I came in on!<\/span><\/p>\n

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After a quick bite to eat back in the room, I went off in search of good drinking water. I located a place called Great Basin Community Food CoOp<\/strong> <\/a>about 8\/10 of a mile away and wow was I in for another surprise. It was a health food store with kombucha and soy milk and organic raisins and chocolate\u00a0and etc, all the stuff I’d been biking the five miles to Whole Foods to purchase!!<\/span><\/p>\n

And bicycles form a part of their motif as you can see in the pictures below:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u00a0was in heaven and pedaled back to the hotel to offload my groceries. \u00a0Which I did.But on my way back, I flatted. I found a shade tree and a nice patch of grass and fixed my tire. Or I thought I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, after I found the Riverwalk and \u00a0and the Crooked Mile, \u00a0and \u00a0the Hub Coffee Roasters, and I \u00a0had finished my conversation with Carol \u00a0Perry who returned my call from City Transportation department, \u00a0I noticed my front tire was flat again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This time I studied the tire a lot better and found a goat horn buried in the tire that I had \u00a0helluva time getting out. Well there must be another one in there, because as I type this my tire has gone flat again, ugh..<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming back to Carol, she and\u00a0Rebecca Kapuler, who is filling in for\u00a0Patrice Echola who I worked with last year to get this\u00a0Reno Biking Report Card<\/a><\/strong> together, will meet with me next week to discuss what they’d like to see me shed light on with the Virtual Tour of Reno that will be the result of my time here.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we return to rewind mode, the Riverwalk bears special mention. Not a path like it is all the way from Harrahs all the way to Sparks and I-80 on the way across Nevada, as it heads west for about a mile, there are sidewalks and roads that twist and turn under an often thick canopy of \u00a0shade trees. Many\u00a0of the bridges are festooned with flowers in full bloom. Huge river rocks line the swimming holes that abound all through this part of town.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And you’v got to know I will be back to explore this beauty tomorrow because I also found out that the storybook coffee shop, the \u00a0\u00a0Hub Coffee Roasters<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0that is such \u00a0a hit with all the local cyclists is run by Mark Trujillo, the same guy who made me feel welcome at his Wallden’s Coffee Shop when I came through here on the Eagle in 2009. Mark hammers the miles pretty hard himself, so I am excited to catch up with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I also found out that the Laughing Planet restaurant that Lynn had suggested I add to our tour, is run by another long time bike contact, the man who started Reno’s famous bike race the Tour de Nez and who used to run the Deux Groz Nez, bike centric coffee shop, Tim Healion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>2009 Host Mike Damon, Tim’s brother kneeling and Tim Helion at the far right, my Eagle is leaning against the \u00a0telephone pole…<\/p>\n

Too much propitiousness ! Yahoo!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Didn’t go very far today. I didn’t have to. 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