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I am welcome to the Playa de Carmen Now podcast how are you and today's episode is about bicycling and play like a condo hotels Playa Del Carmen and Mike in my sidekick sales here in Playa de Carmen so nice to me jewel oh nice meeting you and thank you for going so today to do this show what better person to talk about bicycling and file the Carmen then our own Javier resendiz thank you thank you I'm here thank you
so you're the amazing guest of the day thank you I'm really excited for for this opportunity that you are bringing to me before we asked the amazing guest when you cuz this is our podcast about visitors and people that could come in the file department so when you have visitors to Playa del Carmen
where do you where do you bring them
well I like to show their city as you mention download bicycle but not everyone can cycle but there with the people that can I like yes definitely not the people that that can do I usually take a ride with them around the city with what most of it to re-stick area from play garment and we reach that is one of the most popular pitch at the north of the north side of the
only did you hear that has this kind of space and it's being developing in the last year so I like to to see that specific spot and Ice we usually eat regularly mentioning this podcast because I know a little bit about it I recommended the sunrise is the sunrise usually offer photo shooting in there by the morning is all right so what restaurants do you tip Alexy take visitors won't because Viola Carman where would you take them you know I'm just kind of Mexican classic guy that I love street food I love to eat at the street not I like
don't take it wrong but the feeling around the the street food I don't know it's part of my life I grew up Mexico City so I really like that kind of I'm in and do you have any special nuggets for us do you know a special whelp there's one that he's really well known but he's not in the touristy area it is on the other side of leg I mean okay another Saga when you cross the highway we are right next to the Avenue La Quinta Bonita and for the people that don't know their streets in Playa Carmen go from 5 to 5 from the ocean to the other side of the other side so I'm taking around about maybe do you have any late might be 140
B okay so it's quite far from here is not that far it's around 5 km maybe 15 20 20 minute oil place that is not well known for cochinita really really good it's really really good weekend there's a long line so you can have to wait until you have to show me what they've been doing that for several years I know them for I don't know maybe 8 years and they are in the same Avenue not the same spot because did that Avenue start to grow and develop they move to another place in that Avenue they have anyways but she only met up and I like that I really like that question either what would you recommend for that place like dude if you go from
Monday Tuesday with to Saturday you can find Legend of another kind of like a baby like the like the Red Sox and he's also really good now that's a nice that's one and maybe I can give you another one and well I like the Barbacoa from I'm a local guy so I don't usually think on this Delores I could ride over there I've always been looking for leech on yes which owns like one of my favorites we need to go there pick him up if it's it's it's a tender very very tender just a little bit ago and the other one is allowed that is Sunday alcohol is one of the best place for Barbacoa beef
Rocco is not an easy thing to cook because at the underground that the secret of the underground so this place is always really good for for when you have a party and Saturday and then you want to return to life on by Sunday morning. Like get rid of that hangover or that yes you go there because of that you'd better not go after 10 otherwise you're going to wait about one hour before they did they do know what is the Kentucky I hate this so much cheese on the impossible to do not like
Michoacana straight from Mexico so it's a really good mixture from this kind of put all right so that's some great information about some local restaurants and now let's move on to the topic at hand which is bicycling in filed of Carmen and we picked Xavier thank you the best of the best of the best thank you thank you and I'm if I'm sure you've heard some of this in previous podcast but
the big thing that I saw with hobby is he was he was a host or one of those speakers at the tedx talks in Playa del Carmen yes and who's his his whole thing was on bicycles in and I saw that you will never forget the first image he opened the show with and it's like this Jetsons picture with all these people with electric cars and floating cars and the little girl riding a bicycle and that's just it was just that was so Visionary and it just made wild like tons of sense that's correct thank you and the other thing I know about Hobby him and his wife to every Wednesday night they do it a night ride and it's how many kilometers it's usually just for simple is the last week's we've been around 8:15 and this week we're going to write 2121 what was it to our ride hopefully around an hour
depends on sometimes you know it might be tired that is not working good or are you and I've been on one of these rides and they're super cool cuz you basically take over the street can enjoy it they do and trust me they start over at the last time into to Julio a start there and they start as a whole group and in the hobby his wife and a couple other people help manage the group give us a nice nice tight area so that were not you don't have that one floater off and gets hit by a car or something else he literally be enough people that you can have underwear because maybe could be like hard to handle we are actually in that number by now we are reaching around 50 people
at the moment that we start receiving more participants we are going to increase the people that is helping us to control the the group absolutely which I found interesting as they get a small group of rollerblade yes people just rollerblade throughout the whole process and then yeah and it's in people love at the local people love it cuz we're all going on the street we take over the road we even take over the taxi sections and we did the whole thing I thought it was fun it was amazing it was it's definitely a different way of looking at Playa Del Carmen get it it starts it even starts on this side of the town and it works its way to the other side of the town and it comes back yes and it's fun I can do bad by myself a friend at different kind of work on your health or just to know the city where you are right now she reply
yeah and oh I bet that's a lot of people knowing about moving on bicycle weeping same for several years that we don't need the cyclists in the city or we don't need to just be friends from cyclist I also like to have a car drivers friends that they know maybe they never they are going to never ride a bicycle bike what they protect cyclists on the way you educate them looking forward to make conscious because I'm hearing play I believe is one of the one of the cities that has that kind of space for bikers you're not a single Lanes in in actually I've been working with Avi on on how to educate people not to park in that spot in the as is how he helped me actually
Chester Pike in town I was yelling super important and there's people that they don't have no idea what to do about in to have some kind of guidance and we do it with a lot of passion we also think that we are changing the world in some way at least the neighborhood here in Playa de Carmen right and you know what the warranty what the war has made the gas prices go crazy yes so here's a way to save money get yourself a bike this and bike to work and by the way when you got to go you don't the last year's day bicycle was use was increased by a lot of numbers I don't know the numbers that you can Google it but examples for exam and like Ferris City they start bringing a lot of areas for cyclists and now they have like maybe twice the numbers of Psychics that they
they were like 3 years ago and they're popular demand because in Playa de Carmen they do have those Park and Ride bicycles meaning you they have bicycles parked in public bike the public bikes you go up and it's a nap I don't know if it's the cost that you pay for the 24 hours a week or a month or a year ride the bicycles the ones that are still in the long or into somebody from your bitching and play got me like people that is listening this podcast and you want to have a bicycle in the tri-state area may be the solution for you if the public bicycle right you don't have to be taking care of it like the wheels on whatever If a bicyclist wrong you can just take another one what if you are in a different position maybe you don't live in this
play area and you leave to The Other Side by garment that we are saying the other side of the highway maybe you can I believe it's also on how long you're going to stay up late. Maybe grab a rent for a bike I can take around a hundred and fifty pesos that's around but you can get a cheap bike around $80 cuz you know my good friend Ian who rents bikes in the bicycle prices aren't that is one of those things that are going up in price fairly quickly because they're again like you said they're in high demand and a lot of times you go to the bike store and they don't have one on but if you remember when we were going to buy my vehicle there was just a couple we had to choose and you don't use it right now you're going to lose
bike riding it was that it was that crazy but you need to have in consideration to rent a bike because most of the people that comes to from vacation day we'll just take the one standing along the street but most people they're all so he can get from like for one month or two if they want to rent a bike or purchase a back what would they have to consider if you're going to be in the city and you are like a rookie beginner you might get a cruiser bicycle that is this kind of the song it's really easy to write sometimes they don't have gear so you just have one speed and they don't have even a handbrake you just go backwards in for the break and that's really easy but if you want if you have more knowledge about bicycle and you would like to have more adventures level where you can stop
thinking on a mountain bike anytime when you say people need people say mountain bike sometimes the people that don't know they spent like all this is a professional detectives were my thoughts are really come on mountain bike that they kind of system that is different like I don't know they handle berries this is Tracy just one line instead of having carbs and it got years maybe has suspension and wheels that they will Tire wider and bigger and that's my pretty much in if you want to go for dinner maybe you want to train for example we have several conditions on this area in Quintana Roo maybe you need a road bike that is more thing tire is faster and definitely for people with more experience
that's really good to know I mean that. There's does not for the record. I have several questions about it so all the things I know about Xavier so Xavier
has bike clear across
Mexico yes with my wife with your why we did this journey from Tijuana to play Carmen you're such an adventurous soul
and there's no way you can deny you let me just say it that way but I know I've been getting around so many people that is in this kind of adventurous life that I also following people that I would like to be like that guy or is that. Couple there's always someone right that you want to reach spider bite so thank you for that I hope that they activity and the things that I do Inspire more people to break some things on their head I don't know how they like that misconception that way because he's not as hard as people might think the only thing that you might need really really need for that kind of your knees it's time
why why do you have time doesn't matter because of you he didn't have a lot of what we tend to Lots we used to dance a lot I like I mean 80% of the 84 months we we use the penitent so we were sleeping obviously at 1 Beach or maybe
the boss key
alright thank you very far has been killed and some CD some places behind us a small store at the at the fireworks station at the police station I don't know there were so many others aren't worried and then the other thing you do is you your photographer yes and you host International bicycle Travelers you actually let them stay at your house yes and you connect them
or where they're going in their international travel and you take photos you take a overhead shot you you unload everything that that biker or biker couple has can you take a photo of it yes and it's amazing that you've taken some photos that were published in some fairly popular magazines need to be publishing by cycle medicine that is from the state sexually and
I didn't expect that to be honest but ones that I did it I was really pumped up because it's one of the most popular bicycle and magazines and not just the states in the whole world and I had this opportunity to have the full story of eight cyclist in this magazine just a matter fact you just finished with or you have a cyclist at your house now or she just recently 29th 2019 session but not not person because some of the cycles that we worship they are a couple or maybe a family I have a photo for six elements like for that Mom and for kids riding them there or their own
11 12 8 and 9 wow that's beautiful community that I'm part of it and I'm trying to bring that to this area like to our people that it is possible that is not as hard as they might think and that there are a lot of support from other people that were really want to help you to achieve that that you want it's amazing a website you'll have a website I have a website but this community is well-liked let's an Airbnb for cyclists its name warm shower like the chest. And this community has been working I don't know for 15 years so far or maybe more I've been in that sign
actually this year is going to be my dance
deer stand being part of this community and it all started because when I get my first year on it. It was from here to from play coming to the Guatemala with two other friends and night we met to a couple cyclists and this guy told of a do you know why I'm showering at work we did not and then I start know about this community in the den as anything in this world is growing and is getting more popular so I believe one of the things that that these kind of communities and can do is to bring more confident for people write that they are thinking on it and then now that they have these community health information just by one click which is awesome I mean people that will have dabs or everything like that they could just reach that they just with your hand by clicking which is amazing
that's great you know we also offer bicycles in our country airs when you have to stay at condo hotels play old apartment at any one of our problems bicycles sunny all day long they just keep asking that where is that right yes I do thank you thank you thank you I'm really changing the world trying to go one person at a time when a man is one of the best ways I believe to to nobody because it is a flat area there no mountain low heels he just have to take a care about the weather so be careful on the roads and fly aren't the best you just rather be well aware keep your eyes open that's right me a lot of toe face here they love
I just for you Gringos Americans help Azar speed bumps guess that's it will be one of the words you'll learn real quick and we need to start because this is part of the way of think of the government they think that the low this beat that we need this kind of design but there are a lot of things to low speed low speed Florida State Louis a spit spit
Pop's asked if them what is a thing that you'd recommend to use because to write it back is not only to purchase your bike and that's it you need like safety rules and you need less specific items to take with you anywhere in the world yes I almost lost my bike when I was riding at Marseille in France so any place you can lost your bike but
what I like to do is to support people not to talk to magic eight start riding do you just start feeling right because it generates and they're fiends it make you happy it's brings you positive I so once you start with that maybe you can start now my baby is the moment that you need to start considering maybe your helmet maybe some other stuff but just just do it because I believe that one of the most things that people don't write like I don't have a bicycle well now you have a bicycle helmet and I don't have like I don't have the equipment I don't have the the the clothes I don't have you don't have the attitude you have to ride
start and itchy right maybe even two three and you will see that it was really easy and tell me you were pretty distant for it and you go farther and farther and is there any places that you can go and play at this to start riding as a beginner that you can go there but if you don't want to go there maybe you can go to I could recommend the main plaza the people that really don't know how to write just a practice practice because it's an open space so that helps you whatever command is to find places with no obstacles like a small things like even chairs or whatever for example they can come in either the Fifth Avenue at the North side it has so many things that you can
did you can crash in it so I don't recommend that it's important to know that technically you can't ride a bike on 5th Avenue you can do it before set the Emma ctm and it's allowed any suppose that is a bicycle path right there's no sign that often but some days when they do enforce it it's it's a it could be it could be a challenge in the world the first thing in Mobility is the The Pedestrian providers so if if there's an area for pedestrians well you better get down from your bike and better walk on it tripped
good to know all right good well that was a lot of great information was it thank you so much for sharing all this amazing stuff about bicycling in play thank you for inviting me to share all of this thing and I feel I don't feel scared anymore so let's move on to the episode promotion
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you just telling me you shouldn't have said that but whatever we're doing it alright have a wonderful day thank you very much see you later next episode