Originally Posted by
seypat
It just depends on what type of area you grew up in and what you're familiar with. To a city person such as yourself, these pics are probably nirvana. But to someone such as myself, who grew up hauling hay out of fields like those, taking said hay down roads like those in 100+ temps, it's not.
1. You hauled hay down roads on your bike? Down from places like the Bitteroots and Black Hills, no less?
2. While I was born in the city, I spent a lot of time "in the woods" and "on the water" in New England during my high school years. And I once spent nearly 4 months on the road riding through everything from mountain snow to weeks in a row of intense heat and humidity with very little some days none) shade. I still like bike touring. And try working in an enclosed metal hot dog cart on a street corner with no shade when it's 100 degrees out and there is 95% humidity. Sure. I would never do it again, but I have no idea what bearing that has on where I like to tour and why.
3. One of my points is that I don't understand how someone (the OP) who about his MTB and road experience cannot understand why
some people like riding unpaved roads so much.