DnvrFox

Type of Riding? - Check all that apply, please. I likely forgot some. Sorry!

Iy has been a while since we had this poll. Time for a new one!!

az_cyclist

Since I have ridden 2 330k rides and 5 double centuries, should I have checked randonee as well?

lookinUp

How about 'organized' rides like charity rides, multi-day (Sebring or RAGBRI or Bubba Rides)

Pamestique 

Where's mountain biking?

Basically I ride "recreationally", "commuting" and I forgot to add "touring" if that includes multi-day trips (but I generally pay for a sag). I also pretty seriously mountain bike. Used to club ride (pacelines and all that) but not anymore - got concerned for my safety!

Pamestique 

Isn't that what randonee is all about? Or does it mean something else?

DnvrFox

Come on now, how in the world would I know what you should check? Just define yourself.

DnvrFox

Yes, I remembered mtn biking as soon as I posted the poll!! A PFox on me.

(one can not "edit" a poll)

Daspydyr 

Single track XC mountain biking. My favorite (though I haven't done it in a long time) is to follow a topo map and find some fishing holes.

Shp4man

I ride on weekends and days off from work- usually about 30 miles at fast clip. I have a mountain bike, but it's set up more as a utility bike than a mountain bike. I also like working on bikes almost as much as riding them. Because of that and my current economic situation, my bikes are all from the last century.

az_cyclist

To an extent, yes. The main difference, as I see it, is the brevets and permanents are not supported rides; there are no sag stops nor support vehicles. The California double centuries I ride tend to be well supported. My experience is limited (the Grand Tour Lowland Double, Solvang Spring Double, the Hemet Double) but the rides have been great.

DnvrFox

I would classify those are "Rides" - most centuries have pace lines and the like. Multi day I would classify as supported touring

groth

I checked recreational, utility, commuting, and touring. Also, winter, which has the four same kinds of riding, just not as much nor as long, but colder!

- Ed

John E

We have a fair bit in common -- I enjoy working on bikes and I run a bike fix-up project every October for the Community Resource Center in Encinitas. (If anyone near the north coastal San Diego County area is interested, PM me about participating -- it's the third Sunday in October at EncinitasChurch.com.)

By choice, all of my bikes are from the previous century, and a couple of them have now passed the half-century mark.

My favorite utility bike is my mountain bike.

B. Carfree

I didn't check winter since the poll indicated frozen water and we don't get much of that around here. Still, 99% of the self-described cyclists around here disappear when the rains start and don't come back for seven months, so liquid water must count for something.

Mr. Beanz

**********??? It's in a class of its own Baby!

Edit: Had to correct the "its" before my buddy Condorita jacks with me with a grammar correction. I got this!

David Bierbaum

I added "touring" to my checkbox, even though I have not yet actually toured. It is on my bucket-list however. ... Just where did the phrase "bucket list" come from, anyway?!?!?!?

The other two that I actually do do, are "recreational/excercise", though I do the two separately, and "utility" for groceries, bank, post office, and the like. I do tend to put the utility part at the end of my morning exercise rides, since I get the grocery store practically all to myself, early in the morning.

aRoudy1

Popularized by the movie with Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman; a list of things to do before you 'kick the bucket' (die).

bruce19

rail-trail

Dan Burkhart 

I checked off recreational, utility and winter. I've done self supported touring in the past and organized tours (there's one for the list,) but it's been a while so I didn't include it.

John_V 

I was going to post this same question since I do a lot of them each year. For me it's endurance, long distance and just riding the bike.

DnvrFox

See previous response above.

Shp4man

I'm down in Chula Vista. I don't know if there's a bike co-op anywhere down here. Sounds like a good source for parts, though.

Pamestique 

Anyone who rides double centuries+ can lay credit to randonee sag or no sag. I consider randoneers to be elite, ultra riders; something to admire but definitely not something I ever aspire to. 100 miles or so is a goodly distance; can't imagine going farther...

az_cyclist

I said that to a friend once.. then some other friends rode the Grand Tour ( in 2010). That got me thinking! Another plus... I met RickOCCR at the Hemet Double this spring. I know it is hard to believe someone when they say they had fun riding a double, but it is true.

and that doesnt mean I dont still enjoy centuries! and for whatever reason I feel just as tired at the end of a century as I do for a double.

speaking of doubles, I hear the Davis and Eastern Sierra doubles are great rides

Retro Grouch 

I've yet to figure out why I ride or even what to call the kind of riding that I do.

I'll keep working on it and let you know once I figure it out.