2020 New Mexico Bicycle Guide
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INSIDE New Mexico NM Bike Plan Bicycle Guide NM Bike Maps ACA Bicycle Routes NM Bicycle Laws US Bicycle Route System Bicycle Events Useful Websites Organizations NM Businesses Published by the New Mexico Bike Summit - A Nonprofit Corporation From the Editor New Mexico Bicycle Maps Back in the early 1980’s, the League of American Wheelmen (LAW, now the League of American Below are links to state and local bike maps. Bicyclists) came out with a comprehensive Almanac on State Bicycle Guideline Map Bicycling in America. The publication contained all Interactive online map: https://nmdot.maps.arcgis.com/ kinds of useful information on almost everything related apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=25379a5f300c4aafbd to riding, and I always looked forward to getting it in the 36147c7c7127d1 mail at the start of each riding season. The League continued publishing the Almanac for many years but it Two-sided PDF, 12.4 mb:https://dot.state.nm.us/ got smaller and smaller and after 2008 they stopped content/dam/nmdot/BPE/NMBikeGuidelineMap.pdf printing it after moving the information to the web. Albuquerque City Bike Map As Vice President of the New Mexico BikeSummit, I http://www.cabq.gov/parksandrecreation/recreation/bike/ thought that there was a need for a bicycle guide bike-map covering our State. I decided to put together this guide. I tried to get the most accurate information I could, but if Farmington city bike map there is something important out, let me know at http://www.fmtn.org/DocumentCenter/View/748/ [email protected] and I will get in next guide. city_bike_map?bidId= - Chris Marsh, Editor Las Cruces City Bike Map (4.5 mb PDF, two sided) About the New Mexico Bike http://mesillavalleympo.org/wp-content/uploads/ Summit 2016/01/061115bikesuitabilityfinaldraft.pdf Rio Rancho City Bike Map The New Mexico Bike Summit is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (north side): https://www.rrnm.gov/DocumentCenter/ corporation that promotes, develops, encourages, and View/63553/bikemap-north?bidId= supports bicycle education, safety, and advocacy to youth and adults in New Mexico primarily by holding (south side): https://www.rrnm.gov/DocumentCenter/ the New Mexico Bike Summit and related activities. View/63554/bikemap-south?bidId= Look for future Bike Summit meetings via Zoom! Santa Fe City Bike Map (7.36 mb PDF) 2020 Bike Summit Board of Directors http://santafempo.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ Front_Bikeways_and_Trails_map_2015.pdf President: Tammy Schurr Vice President: Christopher Marsh Secretary: George Pearson New Mexico Adventure Cycling Treasurer and Webmaster: Jeff Saul Member: Stephen Newhall Routes The Adventure Cycling Association has been mapping Website: nmbikesummit.org out cross country routes in the US since 1973. They currently have three routes that cross New Mexico. New Mexico Prioritized Statewide Southern Tier: The ACA Southern Tier Route is a Bicycle Network Plan road route from the Pacific to the Atlantic. It crosses New Mexico through Buckhorn, Silver City, Hillsboro, In December, 2018 the New Mexico Department of Hatch and Las Cruces. Transportation (NMDOT) published the New Mexico Great Divide: The ACA Great Divide Route is a Prioritized Statewide Bicycle Network Plan. The plan mountain bike route from the Canada to Mexico. It is was developed by Bohannan/Huston and Alta Planning the longest mountain bike route in the world and crosses and Design in conjunction with the NMDOT, the Federal New Mexico through Abiquiu, Cuba, Grants, Pie Town, Highway Administration (FHWA), Local city bicycle Silver City, Hachita and Antelope Wells. advisory committees, local Metropolitan Planning Bicycle Route 66: The ACA Bicycle Route 66 is their Organizations (MPOs) and Regional Transportation latest cross country route. It roughly follows historic US Planning Organizations (RTPO)s. 66 from Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois. In You can view and download a copy of the plan at: New Mexico, it goes through Gallup, Grants, https://dot.state.nm.us/content/dam/nmdot/BPE/ Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Santa Rosa and Tucumcari. NM_Bike_Plan.pdf For more information on the ACA routes, visit their website at www.adventurecycling.org. New Mexico Bicycle Guide Page 2 be used in addition to the red reflector. New Mexico State Bicycle Laws B. No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a bell or other device capable of giving a 66-3-701. Bicycles; effect of regulations. signal audible for a distance of at least one hundred feet, A. It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act except that a bicycle shall not be equipped with, nor shall forbidden, or fail to perform any act required by Sections any person use upon a bicycle any siren or whistle. 66-3-701 through 66-3-707 NMSA 1978. C. Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which B. The parent of any child and the guardian of any will enable the operator to make the brake wheels skid on ward shall not authorize or permit any such child or ward dry, level, clean pavement. to violate any of the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code [66-1-1 NMSA 1978]. Note that the New Mexico mandatory side path law C. These regulations applicable to bicycles shall was repealed in 1997. Also note that bicycles are apply whenever a bicycle is operated upon any highway permitted on I-10, I-25 and I-40 in rural areas of New or upon any path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles Mexico (outside Albuquerque and Las Cruces). subject to those exceptions stated herein. United States Bicycle Route System 66-3-702. Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles. The United States Bicycle Route System (USBRS) is a Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be developing national bicycling route network. Created granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the with public input, USBRS directs bicyclists to a duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to the preferred route through a city, county, or state - creating special regulations within Sections 66-3-701 through 66- opportunities for people everywhere to bicycle for travel, 3-707 NMSA 1978. transportation, and recreation. In New Mexico there are 66-3-703. Riding on bicycles. three main routes being studied. A. A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other Proposed USBR 75 / Rio Grande Trail Bicycle Route than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto. This route follows the Rio Grande River Corridor B. No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at north to south on existing roadways and trails. one time than the number for which it is designed and Proposed USBR 90 / Southern New Mexico equipped. This route in southern New Mexico connects the 66-3-704. Clinging to vehicles. existing USBR 90 in Arizona to cross New Mexico and No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller connect with El Paso, TX. The natural route would be skates, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself on NM 9 across the bottom of the state. This route is to any vehicle upon a roadway. problematic: lack of access to water, food and services 66-3-705. Riding on roadways and bicycle paths. for up to 80 miles; proximity to the Mexican border; and the fact it by-passes two major cities, Silver City and Las A. Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway Cruces both of which have all the services a traveling shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as cyclist would need including bike shops. NM Bike practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing Summit Inc. advocates that USBR 90 include both Silver vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction. City and Las Cruces. B. Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway shall not Proposed USBR 66 / "Route 66" ride more than two abreast except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles. This route follows Adventure Cycling’s Bicycle Route C. Notwithstanding any provision of this section, no 66 and connects two of New Mexico’s major cities, bicycle shall be operated on any roadway in a manner that Albuquerque and Santa Fe, using the Turquoise Trail would create a public safety hazard. National Scenic By-Way. 66-3-706. Carrying articles. For more information visithttps://nmbikesummit.org/ No person operating a bicycle shall carry any usbikeroutes-for-nm package, bundle or article which prevents the driver from keeping at least one hand upon the handlebar. 66-3-707. Lamps and other equipment on bicycles. A. Every bicycle when in use at nighttime shall be equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the front and with a red reflector on the rear of a type approved by the division which shall be visible from all distances from fifty feet to three hundred feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of head lamps on a motor vehicle. A lamp emitting a red light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear may New Mexico Bicycle Guide Page 3 Major Bicycle Events June Elephant Rock: Castle Rock, CO. Website: Most of the major bicycling events have been canceled www.rollmassif.com/elephantrock for 2020. Below is what we can look forward to in 2021. August March Stonewall Century Ride: La Veta, CO. Website: www.spcycling.org National Bike Summit: Washington, DC. Website: https://www.bikeleague.org/summit Hotter’N Hell 100: Wichita Falls, TX. Website: www.hh100.org Skinny Tire Festival: Moab, UT.