Bike Tahoe Blog & News

We are living during an unprecedented time when the global pandemic Covid 19 is causing us to adopt new public health best practices. By this time, I’m confident that we all have heard, read and hopefully been practicing: social distancing with 6 feet of separation, frequently washing our [...]

Dear Bike Buddies, I’m thinking about you, and feeling a need to reach out, say hello, and check in with how you are doing? Personally, I’m feeling my instinctive desire to ride my bike with friends and promote Tahoe bicycle tourism coming up against the reality that the Covid-19 virus is [...]

Bicycling as a Rite of Passage Here in Tahoe and maybe in your community too, bicycling as a rite of passage has been and continues to be for many a significant development. Who can remember getting their first bike? I invite you to take a moment, and recall how you felt with your first bike, [...]

Tahoe’s Top 10 Bike Rides offer something for everyone. The following top 10 bike rides include cruising on bike paths with the family, getting introduced to mountain biking on gentle undulating trails or testing your skills and endurance on technical singletrack trails. Tahoe bike rides [...]

Bicycle Industry Trends & Insights I recently attended Interbike Market Week in Reno, NV, (September 18-20), the largest annual U.S. bicycle industry tradeshow for retailers and suppliers to share, learn, enjoy, and perform the business of bicycling. I attended presentations, and spoke with [...]

An informative blog by the Carson Valley Visitors Authority highlighting road cycling in the Valley with a tips guide for dining, lodges, bike shops, and more: Carson Valley is an ideal base camp for your next road cycling adventure. Kick off with a moderate ride, then push your limits on a [...]

10 Popular Lake Tahoe Bike-accessible Campgrounds One of the great assets distinguishing vacationing in the Tahoe region are 10 popular Lake Tahoe bike-accessible campgrounds. These campgrounds are located on some of Tahoe’s best bike paths — providing connectivity to communities, [...]

5 Popular Lake Tahoe Wildflowers Lake Tahoe wildflowers are many and easy to find – they are everywhere. You can find them in vacant lots in the neighborhoods, while riding your bike or hiking on the trails, in the meadows or high above the alpine summits. Here are five popular Lake Tahoe [...]

Road Safe Sadly, bicyclist fatalities are increasing across the country and Lake Tahoe is no exception. As bicycling’s popularity and use increases, so too fatalities. The recent deaths in the Lake Tahoe region has prompt the necessity to review and share the laws and best practices for [...]

Carson Valley Visitors Authority shared a great article featuring top mountain bike rides in the Carson Valley: Carson Valley sits on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, a bona fide basecamp to over 50 miles and growing of diverse track. Many of these rides are relatively unknown and fresh [...]