Hack the Heat Update

Otherwise known as the Defcon Bike Ride — things are coming together. This is what we know so far.

• We will be renting and departing from McGhies bike shop.
• Bikes will be pre-paid for individually (for a bunch of reasons) online before the event. In other words — you will need to already have a reservation to come on the ride. You will be responsible for paying the bike shop directly (more info on this in a minute)
• You can bring your own pedals
• You will get one water bottle – a 2nd one is ~$2.
• The ride is gentle uphill out, mostly downhill back. We will have a map of the ride soon.
• We will have instructions on ordering the bike jersey very soon.
• We will be sending out an email on next steps (for bike jersey and rental) in the next few days – please respond to this as quickly as possible so we can get the correct data to the bike shop and start locking in reservations.
• The bike shop has about 18-20 men’s road bikes, and 5 female road bikes at the normal price level. They have some additional road bikes at the “madone” / $120/day price level
• Please do not reserve your bike until you get the email from us later this week and you respond to it (that way the bike shop can correlate you with our group – let’s not create extra work for them)

If you have questions please post them in the comments of this post so everyone can see the answer.

Once again — the ride is *Updated August 4th. We meet in the Rio (specific location TBD) at 5:30am Vegas time. We want to be on the road as close to 6am as possible and be back by 9-9:30.