Road Cycling - Where are you from?

Lancaster PA here........

hmmm, perhaps introductions is a better channel for this, but anyway, east tennessee, knoxville area :-)

hmmm, perhaps introductions is a better channel for this, but anyway, east tennessee, knoxville area :-)

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In the heart of the Colorado's central Rockies: Silverthorne, Colorado

Lancaster PA here........
The wettest roads you've ever seen are in Seattle....

<------ Exact location is right under my name :-)

Mt Juliet, TN - just outside Nashville, home of the shoulderless road

Nashville, TN

Mt Juliet, TN - just outside Nashville, home of the shoulderless road

You have Lebanon Road, which has a pretty good shoulder. I live on Percy Priest and ride Lebanon Road a lot.

Montreal, Canada

State College, PA

Sunnyvale Ca. the best place on earth...

Austin Tx home of his Royal Yellowness and the eternal head wind!

Ex Thousand Oaks CA home of some of the best riding anywhere!

San Fernando Valley born and raised. 7 years in Seattle and 2 in Portland.

55/Rad

His Royal Yellowness
!

LMFAO! i like that one a lot!

-- michael

Lancaster PA here........
Harrington, DE.....the flatest roads in the country.

Mt Juliet, TN - just outside Nashville, home of the shoulderless road

hah! my wife if from mt. juliet, we get over there on occasion :-)

Here is some interesting info. Thousand Oaks Ca is next the the Santa Monica mountains home of some of the most epic climbs (and decents anywhere). You've miles of 5%-20% on deserted mountain roads to crawl up and fly down. PCH is just the other side of the Santa Monica's and from PCH you can hit some awsome roads that will take you back to TO. Near perfect weather year round tops it all off. There were a good many riders but nothing like what I found when I moved to Austin.

Austin although not flat is far from "mountainess" lot's of rollers high summer temps with a nice dose of humidity thrown in just to make it really fun. Most of the roads are pretty well traveled by cars and most of these roads have very little shoulder. Yet the cycling comunity here just rocks! Our Tuesday night training ride get 35-40 riders! The Sat ride double that! Just around my housing developement the after work riders are out in force! I was just surprised that with all the SoCal has going for it regarding cycling Austin is by far more cycling centric.

Delray Beach, FL.
More rascal scooters than you can shake your cane at .....whippersnapper!
Home of the Life Alert....I've fallen and I can't get up. At least they aren't clipped in!!!!!

Tonawanda NY. Northern suburb of Buffalo. Great place to ride between April and November. :) Someday I may take up snow skiing, got to have something to do outside besides snowblowing the rest of the year. :rolleyes:

As it says under my avatar, the capital of the Golden State: Sacramento, California (City motto: "But it's a dry heat!").

Cupertino, better than Sunnyvale. :-))
easier to get to the hills! :-))



Sunnyvale Ca. the best place on earth...

Everett WA 30 miles north of Seattle but have lived in Seattle, Cleveland, St Louis, Duluth and beautiful downtown Leoti Kansas (where I was born)

You're right, there are a few shoulders but having grown up in Texas where you have a nice shoulder just about everywhere - it takes some getting used to.

Dan


You have Lebanon Road, which has a pretty good shoulder. I live on Percy Priest and ride Lebanon Road a lot.

British Columbia, Canada. I've lived north and south. Now I live on the tip of Vancouver Island.

Sub-tropical rainforest and ocean. It's Atlantis to me, 'cept it's not sunk.

>jef.

Cupertino, better than Sunnyvale. :-))
easier to get to the hills! :-))Yeah! What coolcamden said. Only 3 miles from my doorstep to the base of Montebello Rd. (5.25 miles and 2100 ft. of climbing.)

Yeah! What coolcamden said. Only 3 miles from my doorstep to the base of Montebello Rd. (5.25 miles and 2100 ft. of climbing.)

Well, doorstep to Montebello 5.1m... better warmup..:)

Well, doorstep to Montebello 5.1m... better warmup..:)I warm up pretty darn quickly as soon as I make the right-hander onto Montebello. :)

Sunnyvale Ca. the best place on earth...

Nope, Santa Cruz county is--gets too warm out your way. Greetings from Watsonville, the place where people from Sunnyvale come to cycle, from the guy who is always going to Sunnyvale to eat great Indian food.

Rich

Nope, Santa Cruz county is--gets too warm out your way. Greetings from Watsonville, the place where people from Sunnyvale come to cycle, from the guy who is always going to Sunnyvale to eat great Indian food.

RichHi Rich! How's the recuperation?

SteveE

Hi Rich! How's the recuperation?

SteveE

Hi, Steve. Very well, thanks. See the thread I just started, called "Back in the saddle again."

Rich

Lake Orion, Michigan here...

Caledonia Ontario...just outside of Hamilton ... I'll be joining the Hamilton Cycling club in the next few weeks, anyone a member? Anyone live near here?

Chad

The wettest roads you've ever seen are in Seattle....
heh, Seattle isnt that bad.
I am only here in the summer, the fall/winter/spring, i am up in Bellingham (for those outside of wa, its 1.5hr/100mi north of seattle). Bellingham is pure bliss for cycling, moving back up there in a month and cant wait.

Big Sky Country
Great Falls, Montana

Mississauga Ontario, just west of Toronto

Born and raised in Mobile,Al. Currently live in Alabaster,Al., a suburb of Birmingham.

Mississauga Ontario, just west of Toronto


If you ever come down to Hamilton for a day let me know and bring your bike (mtn or road) :)

Chad

**EDIT**

If I go to visit my friends in mississauga I may be knocking asking you to go for a ride, they live just off the highway how far off the highway are you? (It may be a good excuse to goto Krispy Kreme) do you have a good group to ride with?

Born in Bootle, Liverpool UK, Moved to Germany when I was about 29, lived there 1 year then moved to Greensboro, NC. Want to move to Montana in a few years and stay put (dont know why I started waffeling......old age)

heh, Seattle isnt that bad.
I am only here in the summer, the fall/winter/spring, i am up in Bellingham (for those outside of wa, its 1.5hr/100mi north of seattle). Bellingham is pure bliss for cycling, moving back up there in a month and cant wait.

I love it up ther I take the Amtrak up ride out toward Sumas or up to the Peace Arch or maybe a spin out to my Freinds in Acme some of the best vies of the Cascades and Canadian Rockies up there.

Fresno, CA... Or nearby anyway.

Salt Lake City, Utah. Mountains rock. Too bad I dont have anybody to ride with. :(

Big Bear, CA. Elevation 7000 ft. Where there is no such thing as an easy ride or a flat road...

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, good riding ahaid....

San Bruno, CA

Charlevoix, Michigan.



Olds

Fruitland, Idaho.........what you never heard of it? Comon we have like 4,000 people i mean what planet you living on if you havnt heard of fruitland :D

hi .just in from a 70 mile ride thrue the sperin mountains Ireland

Caledonia Ontario...just outside of Hamilton ... I'll be joining the Hamilton Cycling club in the next few weeks, anyone a member? Anyone live near here?

Chad

2 hours drive SW of Toronto Ontario. And chad, you know how I wish I was climbing that escarpment in hamilton right now, don't you? But then again, I like clean air. All jokes my friend. I'll frequent the Donut ride in Toronto a bit.

I was just surprised that with all the SoCal has going for it regarding cycling Austin is by far more cycling centric.
Cycling in SoCal suffers the same fate that many other activities do there. Too many other things to do. Yes, the landscape offers a tremendous amount of options but given the population base, I was alway surprised at how few new riders there were on on club rides. (new riders being the lifeblood)

Austin Texas? I can't imagine for a second why cycling is so popular there. :)

I'm from Westerville, Ohio.
Brian.