Man up buttercup. 
So the weather can be lousy. Who cares! When you get the good days (and even when you don't), the quality and variety of available riding in what is a pretty small island is phenomenal. Of course, I love my foreign trips too but they take a lot more planning than just going out and riding!
This is why Spain is so good, if you want cooler weather go higher in the mountains, it might rain, there may be snow on the ground and as you descend the weather is better, brighter and warmer, if you are a Brit like me and have MTBd all over then you can appreciate Spain, I keep trying other places but always Spain for me, loads of extremes.
Pretty much every country i've ridden in that isn't the UK was better. A brief list would be:
Italy
Spain
France
Canada
If it were pratical for me to move, i'd be gone in a shot. The country is overpopulated with crappy health and safety laws that result in any half decent trail either being sanatsed or destroyed. Rubbish.
what coogan said.
I'd rather be in canada, with a proper winter and summer. simply fantastic riding all summer. and ace skiing/boarding all winter.
and somewhere where it snows and people just continue all the same. Not having everything a panick for a little bit of snow!
love the british climate. Although I appreciate summer and dry trials I also like the challenge of winter riding. I love autumn too. Hotter summers equate to colder winters for other countries.
riding in N America was the most fun, Utah, Colorado, California hard to beat for sheer variety..
That's a stupid comparison though - California to Utah is the equivalent of UK to the other side of the Alps. It's like saying that 'Scotland, England, France, Italy' is hard to beat for variety (which would also be true).
I've not ridden abroad but I sometimes wonder that the UK climate must seriously limit the places you can cycle. I live in Scotland which is of course amazing for MTB but I like to create new routes and the extreme wetness can make things tricky.
I've scoured my local area for new options but always seem to be hindered by a huge bog or miles of bracken. I'm not complaining about the UK conditions at all because that's what makes it the special place it is. There must be dry places abroad though where you can just pick a hill and select an awesome way to ride down it without encountering huge bogs etc.
There are very few places in the world where yo can go where you want when you want. Where you can wild camp and where you get such a huge a huge variety.
It all depends what you want but this trumps all for me.
20 Camping at Carrour by TandemJeremy, on Flickr
This is where I will be riding in two weeks time. Half an hour's drive from my mum's place in Somerset West, RSA.
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