{"id":9814,"date":"2015-08-18T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:00:44","slug":"reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Reno to Verdi Bike Lane Heaven, Its Neighborhoods and&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">A<\/span><\/strong>fter I left the Reno Bike Project, per <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/17\/reno-bike-project-drum-brake-fix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this report<\/a> \u00a0that I dashed off today and had taken\u00a0a lunch break at the hotel, I traveled west staying within a mile of the Truckee River. Instead of turning right on Arlington and dropping down to the river path, I pedaled into the shade-tree filled\u00a0Old South West neighborhood. Before I tell you about that find, take a look at this video which shows the bike lanes on Arlington and some footage of what I would soon be biking through for the next half hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SeC7By0Sv8c\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Old South West neighborhood is an important part of Reno for the out of town traveler to know about because it is a great place very near to downtown to go for a walk or an easy short family bike ride. The homes and their gardens are all nicely kept. And as an added bonus, there are many large shade trees \u00a0in an area that stretches for twenty to thirty blocks in either direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/18\\\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 388px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"388\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 516px; height: 388px;\" data-original-width=\"516\" data-original-height=\"388\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/img_1073\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"512\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"384\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9815\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439823713&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00097847358121331&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1073\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?fit=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?w=512&#038;h=384&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?w=3264&amp;ssl=1 3264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1073.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"512\" data-original-height=\"384\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_1073\" alt=\"IMG_1073\" style=\"width: 512px; height: 384px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 292px; height: 388px;\" data-original-width=\"292\" data-original-height=\"388\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/img_1075\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"288\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"384\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9816\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2448,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439824782&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00086880973066898&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1075\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?fit=450%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?w=288&#038;h=384&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?w=2448&amp;ssl=1 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?resize=450%2C600&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1075.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"288\" data-original-height=\"384\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_1075\" alt=\"IMG_1075\" style=\"width: 288px; height: 384px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 292px; height: 388px;\" data-original-width=\"292\" data-original-height=\"388\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/img_1072\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"288\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"384\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9817\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2448,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439823597&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00074294205052006&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1072\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?fit=450%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?w=288&#038;h=384&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?w=2448&amp;ssl=1 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?resize=450%2C600&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1072.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"288\" data-original-height=\"384\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_1072\" alt=\"IMG_1072\" style=\"width: 288px; height: 384px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gLnxDFKw3M\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Soon I crossed the Truckee River, which I am told is a fraction of its normal raging self even this time of year, and made\u00a0a stop at the Hub Coffee Roasters for some on\u00a0tap Kombucha. I did not like the flavor of the only choice they had so I opted for water and sat at the outdoor table where I went over my iPhone notes for today. At the\u00a0table I had chosen, when she got off the phone, a women named Loretta wanted to know\u00a0what my bike was all about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After we talked Advanta for a while, the conversation changed to my mission She was very interested and I sensed she might ride herself.\u00a0Middle aged, however, \u00a0she was not dressed in sporty attire but looked more like the PhD professor that she was. In talking about UNR, where she teaches, \u00a0I learned that their student enrollment is bigger by several thousand students \u00a0than what I cited two days ago here. They are also expanding \u00a0their operation toward the city, by buying buildings there, instead of moving up the hill. Their goal is for Reno to be known as a university town and less of a gaming center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As the conversation returned to cycling, as she described her \u00a0bike and the rides she went on I knew I was talking to someone who\u00a0knew the two wheel road! I turned my listening up as she told me about all the great riding near the small town of Verdi (only 162 people!), where she lives and about how a lot of the Reno cyclists roll on a lot of the roads up her way. She also told me how to get to Walden&#8217;s Coffee Shop from which a lot of the rides that head to her are based. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Well now I had to see Walden&#8217;s again, I had stopped in in 2009 when I rode from\u00a0San Francisco to Salt Lake City\u00a0on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/02\/23\/chapter-excerpt-why-i-ride-an-eagle\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eagle<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>At the time I did not realize its significance\u00a0to local biking.\u00a0And now armed with tire liners, goat heads be damned!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Everyone I asked seemed to know where it was and how to get there. So after the Hub, I took Idlewild, a well paved road with delicious bike lanes all the way till it ended at a park about three miles later. Instead of continuing along the river on a beautiful path that headed for Verdi (I&#8217;ll have to look and see how far it does go), I turned left on to a little dirt path as soon as I crossed over a bike\/ped bridge. Soon it changed to asphalt and bobbed up an down for a third of a mile \u00a0through a setting of neatly manicured rolling lawns and rocks \u00a0that looked almost surreal in its beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/18\\\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 826px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"826\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 826px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"826\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/img_1085\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1096\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"822\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9818\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439830164&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0052910052910053&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1085\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?fit=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?w=1096&#038;h=822&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?w=3264&amp;ssl=1 3264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1085.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" width=\"1096\" height=\"822\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"1096\" data-original-height=\"822\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_1085\" alt=\"IMG_1085\" style=\"width: 1096px; height: 822px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Soon, I was on Blueberry with the famous Walden Coffee Shop near the corner of McCarren straight ahead. \u00a0Both roads were filled with excellent asphalt and wide bike lanes. Yahoo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">However, by the time I\u00a0\u00a0got there, Waldens\u00a0was closed!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/img_1090-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439830770&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0076335877862595&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1090\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-9819 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090-600x450.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"IMG_1090\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1090.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I went next door to a Mexican restaurant names the Buenos Grill for some water. I should have known something was special about this place, because like Waldens, the sidewalk that surrounded it was curved, the kind you can ride up on a bicycle. Well, as it turned out, \u00a0one of the workers, a kid named Quinn, was curious about my bike and td me he was \u00a0a cyclist too. What&#8217;s more, he said that Greg, \u00a0the owner, is also way into bicycling!! Hopefully Greg and I will hook up before I leave town..<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-square tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/18\\\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 550px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"550\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 550px;\" data-original-width=\"550\" data-original-height=\"550\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/img_1092-2\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"546\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"546\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9820\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439832671&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0031847133757962&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1092\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg?fit=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg?w=546&#038;h=546&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=546%2C546&amp;ssl=1 1092w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1092.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=546%2C546&amp;ssl=1 1638w\" width=\"546\" height=\"546\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"546\" data-original-height=\"546\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_1092\" alt=\"IMG_1092\" style=\"width: 546px; 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height: 546px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">While there I also spent some time talking to another woman cyclist about my age about Reno biking. And just Reno in general, and why her and her husband so much love living here. She talked about all the great entertainment they get here and about how nothing in the city\u00a0is more than 15 minutes away. She meant by car. So for the cyclist that would mean airports and colleges and parks and rivers, etc, are never\u00a0\u00a0more than 45 minutes from wherever you happen to be in this fun population center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I rode back to town, maybe three miles, on Blueberry, a fast slightly downhill road with beautiful asphalt and a wide, wonderful bike lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Did I say that Reno is \u00a0well kept bicycle secret? WOW!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To see our Reno blog work as a full collection, go <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/Reno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I left the Reno Bike Project, per this report \u00a0that I dashed off today and had taken\u00a0a lunch break&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/18\/reno-to-verdi-bike-lane-heaven-and\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,95,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nbg-biking-cities","category-reno","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-2yi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7821,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/02\/18\/reno-nv-anchored-first-on-nbg-transamerica-route\/","url_meta":{"origin":9814,"position":0},"title":"Reno, NV Anchored First on NBG TransAmerica Route","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"February 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"On my 2009 Eagle HiWheel ride from San Francisco\u00a0to Salt Lake City <link>, with former Reno Wheelmen bike president Mike Damon's help, I got to learn about Reno, Nevada from a cyclist's perspective. 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The breeding\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;NBG Newsletter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"NBG Newsletter","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/nbg-newsletter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.13.26-AM.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.13.26-AM.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.13.26-AM.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-03-at-8.13.26-AM.png?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9667,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/08\/07\/reno-virtual-tour-work-on-the-advanta\/","url_meta":{"origin":9814,"position":3},"title":"Reno Virtual Tour Work  on the Advanta","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I will be in Reno for the next two\u00a0weeks\u00a0exploring\u00a0that city so cyclists can better understand why we have made it one of the\u00a0\u00a019 NBG Biking Cities that connect\u00a0San Francisco to Washington DC. 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