Road Cycling - Do yall leave from your house or?

Or do yall pack up and go somewhere to ride?...there are lots of FM roads around here but i would need to drive to them...they must be pretty good roads if thats where lance trains :)

Depends on who I'm riding with, but mostly leave from home and ride to the meeting point. There's a state park about 5 miles ride away, so tend to do a lot of riding around there since the roads are nice and quiet.

I pretty much ride from my doorstep unless the ride start is too far away -- like 20 miles or so. Our racing club rides start about 6 miles from my house. Makes a nice warm-up prior to the ride. I've probably driven solo to a ride maybe only 2-3 times in the past year. Most of the time I'll carpool with another rider.

depends, the routes that i can take to get to trails are very busy so if its early i drive there if its rush hour i leave from home, i love to fly past all the people sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.

I've never put my bike in the van to go ride.I'll ride to where i need to be.

Most of the FM roads here are pretty busy nowadays
(urban expansion?), but yeah I do alot of rides from
the house. I'm really looking forward to new LBS opening
about 5 miles from house (Richardson Bike Mart) so I can
do saturday and evening rides without having to pack
the car.
The Roads Lance trains on (some on route of Ride for Roses) are not as busy as the roads up here.
Marty

I leave from my house. I am not involved in any group rides so no reason to drive to a starting point.

I almost always ride from home whether I'm doing my regular ride or doing a group ride.
If the start is more than 15 miles away or if I'm pressed for time I'll drive.

I only ride from home if I’m taking the mountain bike around town or to the trails. The vast majority of my riding miles are on my road bike. In order to put some safe miles on the road bike, I have to get out of town – less potholes and traffic. It’s a 30 minute drive to the club ride. There’s a park near my apartment that has a loop I can ride the road bike on, but it’s really boring doing a 3 hour ride in circles...

I always start from home when I ride in my hundred-acre woods. I used to drive to town to ride on the bike trail until it was taken over by bad guys.
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Most often I leave from my house..There are some great bike clubs about 20 miles away..If there rides are special, I might pick up and drive to the ride site. Most often, I find that an inconvenience. We have an informal bike group in my little town..Little, not so much anymore. - But the riding is great around here, why would I want to drive to the ride20 miles away, where the traffic is heavier.
By the time I drive the 20 miles, I already have in ten miles. Sometimes, my little informal bike group meets at a start point between 5-12 miles away. I get in more miles, I always ride the 5-12 miles to get to the point where they all start.. That is why I get in over 6,000 mile years.
I usually ride with them once a week..They usually ride twice a week.. So times that 52 weeks, round trip - that puts another 700 plus miles in my bike log.

Pretty much exclusively ride from my driveway. The only group ride I do meets at the LBS 4 miles from my house so it would probably take longer to rack up the bike, drive over, and unrack it, than to simply hop on and pedal over.

In the summer when the days are long, I take the long way home from the office. I have the same arrangement with my wife as I did with my mom when I was a kid: be home by dark or call if you're going to be later.

there are lots of FM roads around here but i would need to drive to them

And "FM" means what?

Rich

I wondered if anyone was going to ask what a
FM road is.
Farm to Market
they run from barely paved little travelled to
4 lane rush hour traffic all the time cyclists nightmare.
well up here they do.

Marty

It depends....if i want to use the trails i have to drive because i cant get to them on the bike...if not i go from home...

Except for when I go to Charity RIdes in other areas, I ride from home.

If I am doing climbing, got to drive to the hills.

Otherwise, from home.

Yeah he's right FM roads can be HELL! but there are a few nice ones out here that lead up into the hill country.

I do a majority of my riding from my front door, but i do like to travel and check out different areas once in a while

I do a majority of my riding from my front door, I am lucky where I live there are many differnet routes that are great for cycling. I only live a couple of minutes (by bike to farmland. But i do like to travel and check out different areas once in a while

I always start from home when I ride in my hundred-acre woods. I used to drive to town to ride on the bike trail until it was taken over by bad guys.
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isn't time to take back the roads from the bad guys?

I live on top of a hill in san franciso, three miles from golden gate park (first meeting place) and six miles from the golden gate bridge (second meeting place). It's mostly downhill so its a good warmup to ride from the house. it does make it tough to get home.

If I go mountain biking, I take the car usually. I have ridden to the trail head, but it is about 10 miles or so, and that is to far on knobbies with little gears.

I try to always ride the road bike to the rides. I find it disturbing for me to put my "road" bike on the car to drive it somewhere to ride it on the "road" It just doesn't seem right. If the ride starts too far to make it feasible, I will rack it, but I hate doing that. Typically the trip there is a good warm.

right out of my driveway. the goal is to always return in one piece.

For a race I drive, if it is just me riding by myself from my doorstep, If I ride with a club or something They usually start from the same location. I usually drive to my parents house then ride from there so I can warm up.

Ride from the house. Unless the Wife and I are spending the weekend somewhere. Then the bikes go up on the Yakima.

I always start my ride from my doorstep. I do not own a car and have never owned a car in my life. I either bike or walk. Sometimes it's inconvenient if I wanted to go somewhere far and don't have a car, but I manage OK. For most of the riding people do here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we really don't need to drive anywhere. Out the door and within 20 minutes, you're in the hills or at the coast, miles away from the main traffic. Can't get any better than that!

Wow..Kefin..W/o a car maybe people can afford to live in the Bay area? Don't worry. Our housing costs are cathcing up here in SO.Cal... What a privilege. Transit that works in sink with Bikes, making a car unnecessary. I like that.
What about like, if you do a major grocery shop/ buy a big TV... Guess, you can get almost everything delivered?

I usually leave from the velodrome if I'm riding with other people. When I'm by myself I usually leave from my home, unless I want a change of scenery. Then I'll drive to the velodrome.

Always from home. I live on a street that has a wide bike lane that leads to a bike path that takes me to hundreds of miles of different bike path routes through Denver and into the mountains.

From the house, save for rides that are out of town. My favorite group starts about 4 miles away, and most of the club rides start about the same distance in the other direction.

Club rides are 23 miles away and they start before I could ride there from work. I go mostly to test myself against others.
Training on my own I just leave from home.

I live in an area that has an average of 80 to 120 feet of climb per mile. When I first got into cycling I would almost always haul my bike to a route that was less hilly. After the first year I found that I was able to ride from home because I did not have to worry about the hills. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last 2 years.

Now I find that I am increasingly hauling my bike again. BUT – I’m now hauling it to the bigger hills (far away) so that I can climb MORE. 3 Years ago I never would have thought I’d be saying that! :-)

I have about a half mile of dirt road from my place to the road and I drive it when it's snowy and muddy like it is now. But it dries out relatively fast so I can ride it. keeps the skills sharper, right?