Hm, asking Bay Area bikers for bike rental recommendations might be a little like asking them for a hotel recommendation. Maybe Yelp? This would be a great bloggish database: best bike rentals, by city.
Box Dog Bikes has a cool blog occasionally chronicling interesting road/trail rides, like this one: http://www.boxdogbikes.com/cross-training-an-east-bay-hills-mixed-terrain-loop/ I haven't done this ride specifically (on my list), but the terrain's cool. For more info and maps on this park and others in the area, look up Tilden or East Bay Parks. These might be worth getting in advance: Napa: http://napacarfree.net-flow.com/bikes.htm Marin: http://www.marinbike.org/Map/Index.shtml East Bay: http://www.ebbc.org/maps/map.html SF: http://www.sfbike.org/?maps Around Stanfurd: http://transportation.stanford.edu/alt_transportation/midpen-bike-map.html HTH, Tse-Sung On Jan 22, 6:13 pm, John L <johnlimo...@msn.com> wrote: > My wife and I will be traveling from Boston to California in March and > have 4-5 days to explore the Bay area, which will involve visiting > friends in Palo Alto, downtown SF, and Napa, and, I hope, a pilgrimage > to the Riv HQ. We were hoping to do this exploration mostly by bike - > credit card style, although probably trains, ferries and even a rental > car may come into play (details are sketchy at this point). Any > recommendations for how to get a reliable riv-ish ride for that time? > I'm considering shipping our bikes (seems cheaper than bringing them > on an airplane) but it makes me nervous. I'd prefer to rent, but most > of what's out there seems to be offering skinny tired carbon bikes or > hybrids, neither of which appeals to me. On a previous similar > thread, someone suggests Karim's used bikes in Berkeley but elsewhere > on the internet, it's reputed to be a fence for thieves. Bay Area > Bikes offers the Big Dummy which is an attractive option but probably > overbuilt for our needs (it makes my wife a little nervous). I'd go > out of my way for a good rental so if you know of somewhere else in > the Bay Area I should consider, let me know. Thanks! - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
