I’m staying in Dubai with work for a week and am look for some advice on cycling while there.
The hotel has crap exercise bikes so preferably I’d be able to get out a couple of times.
I’m staying at the Hotel Atana not far from the Palm Jumeriah.
I’m m after some advice on.
Is it safe on roads?
Best time to cycle?
What is the best routes accessible from my location?
Bike hire?
Any other advice?
Cheers
I have lived there for 10 years, with relatives still living there.
Absolutely not. There are so many people who have died in the pilot community (that I have insight into). Never ride outside of the dedicated built bike circuit that they have constructed in the desert.
Taxi out to the bike circuit.
Early morning or evening 
Is there hire available at these tracks and which one would be the best for me to get to given my location?
Appreciate the advice
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There used to be an early morning ride on a Tuesday, that went from the Grosvenor House Hotel on Dubai Marina. Starting around 5am, I believe. It’s on the open roads but with a support vehicle.
There’s also the Dubai Roadsters (run by Wolfi’s bike shop) that do a Friday morning group ride. Again, on the open roads but with several support vehicles.
(It’s been a while since I was there, so I could be wrong).
Not sure whether it was Dubai or not, but don’t they have the longest bike “path” in the world?
Do they have a bike route / path from the cycle hub?
They have some really big bike routes but as I’m trying to make sense of the map of the place, getting from the hotel to a bike hire place and then to the bike hub doesn’t seem to be straight forward
Al Qudra cycle track:
Yep, this is the one (that @kervelo) posted!
This dude has some decent vids on cycling in Dubai, his commute to/from the cycle path looks really sketchy!
Yeh - I’m looking at this track, renting a bike from the trek store which is at the entrance to the track I think. It’s a long ish journey out from the hotel which will have to be via taxi which is putting me off a bit. Everything is juts so spaced out.
Yeah, it’s all car everywhere… 
Car-centric city!
For just a week, I’d relax, swim laps in the pool, lift some weights in the gym, and you can probably suffer 30 minutes a day on the crappy hotel bike if you really wanted to pedal.
Plus you wouldn’t have to pack all your cycling gear.
I have no idea about Dubai, but I traveled a lot. With rare exceptions this is the way to go. Your cycling gear takes up a crap ton of space.