Given your writing samples in this thread, you're not going to get into Berkeley or Stanford. Sorry if that's mean, but may as well be realistic.

The riding and weather around Stanford is incredible. Berkeley is more urban, and it's harder to get to the good riding, but still pretty good. Boulder is good all year, but not every day of the year, and you can't do much climbing in winter. San Diego might be a good place to check out - lots of military, some good riding, really good weather. Santa Cruz is incredible for both road and mountain biking, but ex-military might be a tough road socially there.