My family (me, wife and 3 year old) will be visiting my brother in Denver to for two weeks at the end of August. We're thinking of staying in Denver for a week and then traveling somewhere else nearby like Boulder or Fort Collins to access the mountains more easily for a few days. I'd love to hear from any locals about suggestions for rides (or other "must-do" activities) we could do out there. As with other recent riding-with-others threads, we have one reasonably strong rider and one eager but a bit less ambitious rider, with the added bonus/weight of a toddler and higher altitude (we're at sea level here in Alexandria VA), so I think we would skew toward shorter routes with good scenery or other interesting places. Breaking up a longer outing with lunch/museum/fossils/frogs/whatever would help keep the toddler happy!
The other question I hope list members can help me with is about equipment: it looks like if we want to do more than about 4 days of riding, it's cheaper to ship our bikes than to rent. When we've traveled with our bikes before we've driven, so flying and shipping is an unknown to us. Any tips or perils to watch out for would be appreciated. I'm especially unsure about what to do with the rear child seat, as it's pretty bulky and likely won't fit in a box with one of the bikes. I think my preferred solution, if I can make a connection with somebody, would be to leave the seat at home and borrow a WeeHoo or other trailer bike. My son is reaching the age where we are thinking about getting one of these and this seems like a good opportunity to the one out. If anyone has one we could borrow, or knows someone who does, I'd appreciate speaking with you off-list. The rental places around us are loath to rent trailers unless they're connected to one of their bikes and I imagine I'll run into a similar issue out there. Thanks in advance, I appreciate any suggestions! John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
