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I'm off to Vegas for a week for work at the start of Feb and was wondering if there's any decent bike shops to take a look around. I only have one day free so riding isn't a possibility sadly (colleagues want to go to a range to shoot). I'm staying in one of the big hotels on the strip so easy reach from there is best.
None that I found.
Vegas is a dump. Sorry. Which hotel are you at? Might have a few tips to find some of the few good things there....
Caesar's Palace. To be honest it's never been high on my list of places to go but it's better than the same event last year in Orlando when the hotel was like a luxurious mega-prison where leaving the place needed a car or shuttle bus.
hotel...like a luxurious mega-prison.
Welcome to Vegas. 🙁
I was at the Aria, a little way up the strip. Soul less dump of a place. 🙁
The fountains were pretty cool, though!
Well at least with Vegas it looks like you CAN escape. Course my time in Orlando is tainted because I got food poisoning the day I arrived and was ill the entire time I was there. This year, no warmed up seafood pasta as a snack between meetings.
Vegas is an over-hyped dump in my humble opinion ...
Take it for what it is and dont expect too much in the way of character - as for bike shops, never even saw a bike there so i doubt it but theres a chance i suppose .... 😆
Pro Cyclery is OK and not too far off the strip but you'd need to take a cab
REI sells bikes and bike stuff, not walking distance of the strip though.
There was a place doing guided rides with bike hire when I went last year on Flamingo Street West. Its a cab ride from the strip.
http://mcghies.com/articles/bicycle-guided-tour-home-page-pg327.htm
There are a surprisingly high number of cycle shops and cyclists in Vegas. I was there for a few days and rode out from the Bellagio to Blue Diamond a few times. Nobody (except me) was riding down the strip, but once you get out of town then there are quite a few, seemed like a lot of folk drove to the edge of town and then cycled from there.
There was a decent shop west of the strip on the way out to Red Rocks/Blue Diamond, possibly the Pro Cyclery referred to above. I seem to recall from googling that there were half a dozen decent sound shops.
But seeing as you are in Vegas why visit bike shops? Just enjoy of for the theme park that it is.
Was there in November. I rented a Superlight from Las Vegas Cyclery and rode to Red Rock state park. Pretty sound guys. http://lasvegascyclery.com/
I think I'm just going to do a grand canyon tour and shoot some WW2 machine guns instead.