So, the eyebrows were raised...

[shootingstar]

Have made a couple of business deals on bike rides. Cycling is the new golf for alot of people.

Agree. I always found it a topic ice-breaker, especially among the guys in several organizations that were predominantly men --regardless of whether or not they were cyclists.

We always ask hotel front desk about bringing in our bikes. 95% of time we've been able to bring them indoors...if not in our rm., in a locked area. 1-2 hotels allowed us to store bikes in an unused conference rm. Several hotels would have the hotel valet park our bikes for us in locked area..that's the way how they wanted to handle it.

The trickier part is staying at some bed 'n breakfasts where just storing in the garage wasn't always a great idea unless we made sure bikes had the bike locks on also.