Originally Posted by cyclebutt
I don't know about you but lately I've been dreaming of a bicycle utopia. I mean if I won the lotto I'd buy some land some where with a temperate climate and build a 100 mile loop path that includes flats, rolling hills, some massive climbs and awesome descents. Doing away with all the iceholes in their dump trucks, semi's, pick ups, toyota camry wheelchairs(old folks) and whatever else pisses you off!! wouldn't that be great? Oh I forgot to mention water coolers and dancing girls (or guy's whatever floats your boat) at every 25 miles. what else would you like to see. sorry if this is lame but i'm getting so tired of the bullshot I encounter on my rides.
Theres a old driving range for golf here thats out of buiss and for sale. Not sure how many acres but its a pretty huge chunk of property. Id love to turn that in to a bikeshop/riding corse. It would be easy to create some huge hills on the property by diging a huge pond in the middle and piling and packing the dirt in to hills. I bet some one could easly make a 10 mile loop on the property with some very nice and fun switch backs on the road corse. Nothing funner than taking a switch back at speed. Have one direction with huge steep hills for climbing and the other with nice gradual climbing grades and giant down hills. Build a mtb corse following the same corse but unpaved with some intresting hazards. What serious mtb rider wants a perfectly clean corse after all.
Best part is when a customer wants to take a test ride on one of your bikes you point them to the very nice road or mtb corse outside the shop and the bike never needs to leave your property. And you could make money of the corse by renting it out for road raceing and training for road races. Best part about the location is its on a very bike friendly road.