Las Vegas’ Bicycle Marathon Man Shares His Cross-Country Bike Adventure At Video Event At Las Vegas Cyclery Thursday

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

If someone told you a bicyclist pedaled 3,421 miles across the U.S. from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in a mere 18 days, that would blow you away.

But when you find out it was Jared Fisher who made that solo, self-supported transcontinental bicycle ride in July, you chalk that up to Jared being Jared, who has been blowing people away for quite a few years now with his two-wheeled adventures on pavement and dirt through just about every type of natural outdoor setting. Fisher’s Herculean marathon bicycle rides are his specialty. And his spirit for the road and thirst to discover people and our land are the fuel that drove his legs to pedal across the country from July 1-18 in one of his all-time big rides.

The Blue Diamond man who owns bicycle shops in Las Vegas, Reno and Moab, Utah and a Las Vegas-based bicycle touring company, Escape Adventures, is sharing his amazing cross-country bike ride Thursday 6:30-8 p.m. at Las Vegas Cyclery bike shop. Fisher has dubbed the event, a “ride-a-mentary” — a 35-minute video filmed by Fisher along the journey from Anacortes, Washington on the Pacific Ocean to an obscure beach in Maine on the Atlantic Ocean. Fisher owns the bike shops and touring business with his wife, Heather. The couple have four kids and are community leaders in preserving Red Rock Canyon.

Here are a sample of the video and photographic scenes from Fisher’s coast-to-coast journey.

To give you more of a taste of what to expect Thursday, here’s a two-minute TV news clip from Channel 8 on Fisher’s bicycle journey. My friend, Chris Maathuis, sports director at Channel 8, interviewed Fisher for this report.

In July, Fisher was posting daily reports and photos from the road on Facebook. He was a typical Fisher blurb on July 16 while in New York state.

“Today was an incredible day and I must say that New York as some of the best back country farm roads for a road biking that I have ever seen. Writing that beautiful farmlands to the Witmer farm then up around Syracuse then into the Adirondack mountains was exceptional. It was a long day because I’m eager to finish.

“It’s 1:16 in the morning and I’m just now laying down next to the Hudson river in my sleeping bag ready to charge in the morning so I don’t have a whole lot to say except thank you everyone for the comments. Keep them coming because they give me motivation to charge east.

Fisher camped about half the time — “or whenever I started falling asleep on my bike in the night,” Fisher told me.”If I could find a hotel room and I was done riding that would do it. I stayed at one church on the sidewalk and in the rain.”

You can hear firsthand from the man himself at his video event at Las Vegas Cyclery Thursday. For more info and to say you’re coming, click here for the Facebook event.

Here’s a look at the entire 35-minute video created by Fisher.