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Hi
Welcome to Baltimore, a liveable city.

THe big bike club in your part of the world is BBC. 
http://users.jagunet.com/~thbauer/
2,000 members

PPTC covers Washington. www.bikepptc.org
3,000 members

  Good luck with web sites, local trails, and local bikeshops.
THe NCRT starts only a few miles from you. Goes to rural PA.
                                                 Neal Grotenstein
                                                 nealg@cpcug.org
                                           http://cpcug.org/user/nealg/

When I use to live in the city I tried riding around in the parks (such as
Patterson Park) but ran into too many problems. [Dogs, people, glass,
debris]

 I changed & began riding at Lake Montebello (33rd & Lake Montebello Dr, by
Memorial Stadium). At least here it's relatively clean & secluded from the
"main drags".


Paul Franceus <PaulMaxime@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:B52941C6.13793%PaulMaxime@yahoo.com...
> All-
>
> I've just moved into downtown Baltimore and since there's not a
balt.biking
> newsgroup I thought I'd ask here. Is there anyone with experience riding
> around Baltimore City? I live near the Inner Harbor, and I am not afraid
of
> city riding at all.
>
> However, I was wondering if anyone had experience with fun/interesting
> routes both within Baltimore and getting into and out of the city on bike
on
> decent and safe roads.
>
> I have a philosophical problem with loading my bike into the car to go for
a
> ride. It just doesn't seem right to me at all.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Paul
>

According to Paul Franceus  <PaulMaxime@yahoo.com>:

> I've just moved into downtown Baltimore and since there's not a balt.biking
> newsgroup I thought I'd ask here. Is there anyone with experience riding
> around Baltimore City? I live near the Inner Harbor, and I am not afraid of
> city riding at all.
> 
> However, I was wondering if anyone had experience with fun/interesting
> routes both within Baltimore and getting into and out of the city on bike on
> decent and safe roads.

You can take Lombard west through SoWeBo to Gilmour, head south a few
blocks and take Wilkins Ave out to Catonsville and head over to
Patapsco State Park.  If you've got a mountain bike there are some
great trails there and they also have a paved trail system if you have
a road bike.

Another route out of the city would be to take Charles street north.
Just past the train station hang a left.  You'll need to consult a map
because I don't know the turns and the road names, but you are
basically taking a nice twisty road in the Jones Falls river valley.
You can work your way all the way out to the county on some fairly
nice roads.

You will pass some areas where you might roll up your car windows, but
everything should be safe during the daylight.  If you are unsure, do
the route in your car first.

-p.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll be sure to try some of them out and let you
all know if I find some of my own.

Paul

Paul Franceus wrote:
> 
> All-
> 
> I've just moved into downtown Baltimore and since there's not a balt.biking
> newsgroup I thought I'd ask here. Is there anyone with experience riding
> around Baltimore City? I live near the Inner Harbor, and I am not afraid of
> city riding at all.
> 
> However, I was wondering if anyone had experience with fun/interesting
> routes both within Baltimore and getting into and out of the city on bike on
> decent and safe roads.
> 
> I have a philosophical problem with loading my bike into the car to go for a
> ride. It just doesn't seem right to me at all.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Paul

Since I like flatland, I think it would be a nice bike ride to go east from 
the inner harbor, hugging the waterfront, thru the old industrial area of
Canton, picking up Holabird Avenue, then Broening Highway, thru Dundalk
to Merritt Boulevard, pick up Holabird Avenue again going east, to Northpoint
Boulevard, then thru Edgemere, then on to either Fort Howard or the Old
Bay Shore Park.

I used to do that when I lived in that area.

Don K.

take your bike on the light rail down to cromwell (last stop).   thats
where the B&A trail begins (to Annapolis) or the BWI trail around the
airport.

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:11:50 -0400, Paul Franceus
<PaulMaxime@yahoo.com> wrote:

>All-
>
>I've just moved into downtown Baltimore and since there's not a balt.biking
>newsgroup I thought I'd ask here. Is there anyone with experience riding
>around Baltimore City? I live near the Inner Harbor, and I am not afraid of
>city riding at all.
>
>However, I was wondering if anyone had experience with fun/interesting
>routes both within Baltimore and getting into and out of the city on bike on
>decent and safe roads.
>
>I have a philosophical problem with loading my bike into the car to go for a
>ride. It just doesn't seem right to me at all.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Paul
>