I love the idea of a bike loaner program downtown for people who drive and take RTA and doen't want to lug them that far.

The heights are a nice ride distance from downtown and there are lots of cool routes - my favorite would be down Mayfield through Little Italy and then go hard core down Euclid right through the construction and brownfields into CSU-land - not much traffic and few people out this way on weekends. Once at Public Square may as well take the Loraine/Carnegie to West Side Market and cruise Ohio City - across Abby Bridge to Tremont and Civilization for coffee etc. and then down into the Flats - take the drop down by the Cold Storage Building on the Central Viaduct and spend an hour bumping around (BTW - lots of glass, tracks, brick roads, gravel, pot holes etc - tough ride for a road bike, but) - ending up on Canal road going south along the river past Sherwin Williams and the Ampitheater - back up top the Central Viaduct and you're at Jacobs Field. From there, I'd bop around the E4th St., Mall, Public Square and lakefront neighborhoods and then cruise the marginal road all the way along the lake to Rockefeller Park at MLK - you can now ride up MLK through the park to University Circle and all paths Heights (note - can't ride through Lake View Cemetary). Now, for a really cool extension, keep going along the lake through Bratenah - you can cut back to the Heights at Eddy or around 140th - but the cut back through East Cleveland can be very confusing - may want to explore here on another ride first.