Bicycles

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Best Place to get a Raw Deal

The Seed

Even for seasonal bicycle riders, there's something wholesome about riding your bike. No doubt about it, it gets the lungs and heart pumping, and—except for yelling at inattentive or rude automobile drivers—it's really hard not to smile. There just aren't that many simple pleasures that improve a person's disposition so readily. Another one is a healthful meal. Raw and barely processed foods can mimic almost any flavor—even foods that most people would think of as unhealthful, like red meat. But the thing about The Seed, downstairs from Reno's best yoga hangout, The Studio, is that often they don't attempt to make the food taste like something cooked or with meat in it. They let the ingredients speak for themselves, and after lunch, pedaling away with a full stomach and a smile on your face feels like you just did something, well, wholesome.

Best cyclist to heckle

Drea Ballard

We here at the RN&R love bicycles. We'd like to see a bike lane on every street and a bike helmet on every child. That said, every once in a while even we like to engage time-honored tradition of harassing cyclists. We don't mean mocking the 50-year-old men riding kid bikes while smoking cigarettes because they lost their license after a DUI. No, those people deserve our respect. We like to mock the people who ride bikes because they're young and strong. People like Drea Ballard, the talented guitarist of Moondog Matinee and Jake Houston & the Royal Flush. The dude makes his living as a bicycle courier for Bootleg Courier Co., and if you travel around Reno much, you'll probably see him at least once a week, zipping around all fast and free and healthy. Be sure to yell, “Get a car, hippie!”

Bicycles Readers’ Picks

Best annual bicycle event

1. Tour de Nez

2. ScalleyCat

3. Edible Pedal 100

Best bicycle nonprofit

1. Reno Bike Project

541 E. Fourth St., 323-4488

2. Kiwanis Bike Program

145 Catron Drive, 337-1717

3. Reno Tahoe Junior Cycling

Best bicycle shop

1. Great Basin Bicycles

8048 S. Virginia St., 825-8258

2. Reno Bike Project

541 E. Fourth St., 323-4488

3. College Cyclery

622 S. Virginia St., 323-1809

Best bicycle-ride destination

1. Verdi

2. Lake Tahoe

Best bike mechanic

1. Steven Lewis (Great Basin Bicycles)

2. Reno Bike Project

3. Curtis Opperman (Black Rock Bicycles)

Best cyclist hangout

1. Hub Coffee Roasters

727 Riverside Drive, Suite C, 453-1911

2. Lincoln Lounge

306 E. Fourth St., 323-5426

Best mountain biker

1. Trevor DeRuisé

2. Cameron “Cam” Zink

3. Steven Lewis

3. Paul Basagoitia

Best place to eat or drink after a ride

1. Hub Coffee Roasters

727 Riverside Drive, Suite C, 453-1911

2. Pedalers Deli

6147 Lakeside Drive, No. 102, 827-2777

3. Laughing Planet Cafe

650 Tahoe St., 360-2592

Best place to get doored

1. Virginia Street

2. Midtown District

3. Downtown Reno

Best place to get hit by a distracted driver

1. Virginia Street

2. Downtown Reno

3. McCarran Boulevard

Best place to run over goatheads

1. Anywhere/everywhere/all of Reno

2. Peavine Mountain

3. Truckee River Bike Trail

Best street bicycle racer

1. Erica Greif

2. Andrea “Drea” Ballard

3. Justin Rossi

Best street candidate for bike lanes

1. Virginia Street

2. Fourth Street

3. Keystone Avenue

Best street for biking

1. Mayberry Drive

2. Riverside Drive

3. Plumas Avenue

Best trick bicyclist

1. Paul Basagoitia

2. Cameron “Cam” Zink

Most bicycle-friendly business

1. Hub Coffee Roasters

727 Riverside Drive, Suite C, 453-1911

2. Reno Bike Project

541 E. Fourth St., 323-4488

3. Pedalers Deli

6147 Lakeside Drive, No. 102, 827-2777