Moving to Tucson

[John Paul Downe]

Anything special to know about riding in Tucson? Have city bicycle map (somewhere??) Will be living
in Midtown near Rillito path.

John Downey Ann Arbor, MI 48103 [email protected] home page:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdowney/index.html

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[Denver C. Fox]

>Anything special to know about riding in Tucson? Have city bicycle map (somewhere??) Will be living
>in Midtown near Rillito path.
>

We always enjoy riding Saguaro National Park East. There is a beautiful 10 mile loop, and nice roads
with paths to and from the National Park.

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[Kevin]

Don't miss the El tour de Tucson in November!!

 

[Mary]

When I lived in Arizona, I always had a problem with "thorns" giving me flats. There are thorn
proof(?) tubes, but I had good luck with something called tiresavers, which are basically wires that
run across your tire which knock the thorns off before they take the second revolution.

Tom

 

[Martha J. Retal]

I've lived and biked here since 1987. You can the bike route map in just about any bike shop here,
and at last count, we had about 20 of them.

BTW, the best part of the Rillito bike path is east of Campbell, and ends at Dodge Boulevard near
the Jewish Community Center. It's the unpaved part. Believe me, that lack of pavement REALLY cuts
down on the walker/stroller/jogger/just figuring out how to ride a bicycle traffic on the path.

As for the organized rides here, I'm of the "Been There, Done That" philosophy. Most of them are
pseudo-races, and that has never interested me. Instead, I use my bike for transportation around
town, and wish more people would do that.

Martha Retallick