bike share (Denver, Highlands Ranch, Broomfield: live, restaurants, shop)

[woob]

I am moving from NYC to denver in july and am very excited about the recently announced bike share starting up in denver. Currently I ride my bike almost everywhere (to work, shopping, restaurants). I was wondering beyond the separated bike paths going through denver, how is the on-street biking experience? Over the past year new york has added tons of bike lanes which make getting around much easier. I have gotten used to riding in traffic in manhattan but it seems that denver traffic moves a lot faster with wider lanes and less volume. Given the weather and lack of hills denver could be the ultimate biking city for the commuter, but I wonder if the infrastructure is there?

[steveindenver]

There are tons of lanes in Denver and many more bike "routes" that are often not lane marked as such.

I ride everywhere all year from central Denver as far away as Broomfield to the north and the Highlands Ranch area to the south, almost all of it on path, dedicated lanes or routes. I can usually beat the car commuters during rush hour.

Drivers in Denver are *generally* pretty good about the whole thing but watch out downtown just as you do in NY.

Pick up a map of the local routes at any bike shop and ride safe.

[woob]

the bike map looks nicely laid out, but i'm a but skeptical of the bike "routes" which seem to have minimal markings. i guess i'll find out soon enough

[DenverAztec]

I ride all over when I can and you will see that Denver is really not flat, especially West, Northwest and Southwest Denver. East is flatter but you will find tons of bikepaths and parks with roads closed to cars but open only to bikes, runners and walkers.

[DenverAztec]

LiveContent just posted a wondefully relevant thread about the paths:

https://www.city-data.com/forum/denve...ike-parks.html