I'll be in the area from April 19th till April 24. Hit me up via the email thingy here and ill be glad to give you a ride.

Hi all,

First of all, thanks for the tips. Gigette, thanks for your encouragement, it does seem managable with a bike and as our tickets are the non-refundable type, we might as well give it a go. That the CAT busses are bike friendly is really good to know.

And Ben, your offer for a ride us very much appreciated! You will get an email from me shortly :)

My friend wasn't that angry at me either... He wasn't angry at all :) In any case, I've been to Red Rocks two times before so I know the climbing is worth the extra effort.

About the guidebook though, I have two Red Rocks guide book allready, one is the old Falcon (I think) guide and the other is the one with the red cover (which is the better of the two). I know these will be enough to get us on the rock, but is Jerry Handren's book better than these two?

Michael,

Since you are familiar with RR already, your two guide books you have will be fine. Jerry's book does have beautiful color pictures though for quick, easy identification of route locations, and a lot of new routes not found in your older guide books. I just thought if you didn't already own one, Jerry's would be the one to get.

Have fun!

Hi again,

I'm a fan of info being available for searching so I'll put down some info that could be usefull for future climbers with no car.
We rented 'cross bikes' from the Las Vegas Cyclery. The cheap bikes at Target were way to bad for riding any kind of distances and we didn't want the hassel of trying to sell more expensive bikes. The cyclery store is just next to Desert Rock Sports... handy.
We skipped the camp ground idea because we found the Bonnie Springs motel. Staying here made things much easier and more comfortable. Riding the bikes was hard enough for us, we wanted showers and cooked food to make it a little easier. And boy where we glad we did! We did not count and the winds around Red Rocks! As soon as it was dark, those gusts would have made riding back to the camground impossible. Now we had a downhill ride almost all the way from the Pine Creek parking to the Bonnie Springs turn off... With the winds in our backs :)
We didn't ride our bikes from the Las Vegas Cyclery to Bonnie Springs, we took a cab with the bikes in it. The taxi company we found that would take bikes was Henderson Taxi. They use SUVs and could take 2 people with bikes if we took the front wheels off. It cost just under 40$.
Getting to the rock from Bonnie Springs was not too bad. It took our out of shape butts just under 1 hour from our door to the Pine Creek parking. Mostly uphill, but rather have it in the morning than after a full day of climbing. With breakfast and lunch prepared from the restaurant the evening before, we could get early starts on some of the very popular climbs. On lazy days we went to First Creek just around the corner.
Yeah it was all hard work but it was well worth the extra effort... and I'll sure remember our bike ride from Black Velvet Canyon to Bonnie Springs on mountain bike trails in the full moon on one of the few windless nights...
So it was doable... but now that I'm getting my license back, I think I'll be a bit lighter with my right foot and rent some fancy car the next time as a treat for our butts.

Awesome; Your resourcefulness paid off! You guys could survive just about anywhere with those skills! : )