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Should You Take a New Orleans Bike Tour? (A Fairly Honest Comparison from the Owner of a NOLA Bike Tour Company)
Trying to decide between an awesome bike tour which will be the highlight of your trip, or a plain old bus or a walking tour for your trip to New Orleans? Here is a quick breakdown from someone who has been guiding tours through NOLA's historic neighborhoods for 18 years. An Easy Guide for How to Decide Choose the Bus Tour if: Your dream of coming to New Orleans always involved sitting on a bus looking out of a dull window. Choose the Bike Tour if: You want a slow, flat, effo

Jeff Shyman
Jul 92 min read


What Happens If It Rains on Your New Orleans Bike Tour?
Well, if you like a good looking tour guide letting you know the answer, watch the video above. If words do you better, read below. If you have too much time on your hands and want to know the same thing twice, do both! Wondering what happens if the weather looks bad before your ride with us? First off, forget weather forecasts days in advance—they mean very little in our tropical climate. Barely pay attention the night before, and only pay a little attention when you wake up

Jeff Shyman
Jul 21 min read


Why We ONLY Ride Beach Cruisers on Our New Orleans Bike Tours
When you start researching bike tours in New Orleans, you’ll see companies using every type of bike imaginable. Electric bikes, multi-gear comfort bikes with handbrakes… hell, maybe even New Orleans by Unicycle (okay, I made that last one up). All bikes are good bikes...and every bike beats a car. But at A Street Tour Named Desire, we stick strictly to classic single-speed beach cruisers. Check out the shortish video below where I tell why, (and do a really poor immigration o

Jeff Shyman
Jul 12 min read
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