your typical ride?
- Thread starter LordOpie
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Start at home, but there are a few rides that just end up easier driving to a place where everyone meets together
majority of them i just leave from the house
Most of my road rides start from the house.
Mountain I usually drive.
Mountain I usually drive.
i think being able to ride from the house is part of what started my road riding. ride the road bike from home thru the week and race mtb on the weekends. then after i migrated over to a road team it was back to loading up to go to teams rides. now that the racing has gone to the level of having a coach im back to riding from home by myself 90% of the time. it seems when you are on a strict training plan that group/team rides don't work out so well. so its back to me and my ipod and i'm ok with that 
I try to ride from home. I have some 7:30 launches during the week that I drive to, as I don't get up really early.
maybe 50% from home, 50% drive to the start of a group ride
Bike shop hours???
besides being frustrated at getting hurt so much mtb'ing, that's the reason I turned roadie... it's nice to be able to ride from home.
I have no climbs near me, closest is 28 miles away. Since I'm out of shape, I'm only able to ride to the base of the climb. But next weekend, I'm gonna try to do the climb, but that puts me at about 65 miles round trip and right now, I'm struggling to do 55.
when i put in road work i usally leave from home, but dh i have to drive .good luck on your ride next week opie .
Thanks!
well, here, there are MANY amazing and beautiful rides too far to bike to and it's worth it.
Just about all my road bike ride start from my home. Where I live now I have to drive 18 miles for trail riding but those 18 miles end at Capitol Forest which is some of the best mtb trails in the state. Before I moved 90% of my mtn biking originated from my back door - I was less than 3 miles away many interconnected short trails.
I ride from home. Mostly road, but I do have trails a mile away.
I live on top of a mountain with a 15%-23% grade and no flats to spin out on when I get there, and it sucks to finish every ride with a 200 heart rate. So I sometimes drive down to the bottom and ride from there.
Me too.