This is also where you board the shuttle to the trailhead. Rent a well maintained, light mountain full suspension or front suspension mountain bike at the bike shop behind Tunnel Creek Café in Incline Village. Scroll for bike details and to book full suspension Carbon Ibis Ripmo, Specialized or Kona bikes. Last shuttle of the day when renting one of our bikes is 2:00pm. Also do not pay attention to the time of day to that the online reservation system assigns to your rental. When reserving double check the date reserved as it defaults to the current day. Especially the Ibis Ripmo, Specialized Carbon Stumpjumper 29ers, KONA Carbon Hei Hei or Specialized Levo e bikes. We do recommend that you do book a dual suspension bike online if riding on weekends or holidays. Send us an e mail if you are with a group renting more than 8 bikes so we can set them aside for you. Even on our busy weekend days you can walk up and we will have a bike for you. We have plenty of front suspension bikes for the Flume Trail so you do not need to reserve a front suspension bike online. Our shop is now located at the end of the ride where you park your car behind our Tunnel Creek Cafe in Incline Village at the old Ponderosa Ranch.īike shop and shuttles open For the Summer 2018! We are the original shuttle service and bike rental for the Flume Trail operating since 2000. Max opened and cleared the Flume Trail for mountain bike riding and hiking in 1983. Max is a two time National Mountain Bike Champion and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Member. There is a significant amount of snow however above 8000’ so the Tahoe Rim Trail Shuttles should start mid to late June.Ĭome by and get a great breakfast burrito and we will keep the beer cold for you after your day!Ĭoffee, breakfast, a great ride and a cold beer all with out moving your car! As of 5/12 Tunnel Creek road and the flume are clear to Marlette Lake. They also had more views looking down over the edge, which shows you just how high you are on the mountain, and just how narrow the ledge you are riding on is.Bike rental and shuttles open Thursday May 24th 2018 as enough snow will have melted to get to the flume trail. The video below is great also - it seems like they showed lots more of Lake Tahoe which just looked incredible. On this one, I could do a lot of it, but I think my fear of heights would keep me from being able to do the single lane parts right on the edge. Watching the video's of a trail before you go will give you an idea of what you are up against, and get a feel for the difficulty level of a trail. This was another great video that I found. San Francisco Chronicle - J5 Hot Spots for Bicyclists (Flume Trail is listed as #3).Here is a great video of a group of riders training for the 2011 event:īelow, I'll list some of the links with articles that have included the Flume Trail: The 2018 event is being held on August 19, 2018. Lake Tahoe, followed by an extreme 22 mile mountain bike ride along theįlume Trail and the Tahoe Rim Trail, finishing with a scenic trail run through Incline Village. The X-Terra Lake Tahoe is an annual event each year with a swim in Bike rentals - are available at Spooner Lake from Flume Trail Mountain Bikes.Best time to ride the trail: June through October, due to potential snow on the trail in the other months.The cost of the shuttle is currently $10. Parking - is available at Spooner Lake, but the best bet at the end, is to ride the Shuttle back to Spooner Lake.Way, I would not personally want to be hiking the trail and run into a The single lane trail with a steep drop off in lots of places along the Hiking is allowed, but after watching a bunch of video's of
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