• JUNE 4, America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride: Ride around Lake Tahoe offers a combination boat cruise and ride with 72 mile and 100 mile courses. Lake Tahoe Horizon, Stateline, (775) 588-9658;
• June 24, Fat Tire Madness: Cross-country mountain bike race, fun ride for Make-A-Wish Foundation, Virginia City, (775) 265-1657;
• The Claim Jumper Mountain Bike Festival is to be held in Tonopah during the Jim Butler Days, July 28-30 and in Austin on August 22;
• Sept. 24-30, America's Lonliest Bike Tour: Annual Camping-style ride across Nevada on Highway U.S. 50; from Lake Tahoe to Great Basin National Park, (775) 784-6587;