Moved house over the summer, only 5 miles, so not far.
But the trails were always about 7 miles away anyway, which meant that a ride there and back and a loop was a good if a bit predictable ride for an afternoon. So now they’re too far and the farm track linking to them too dull to be worthwhile. And while night riding isn’t out of the question, groups are now far enough away that riding time would be less than the time in the car!
Do I:
a) sell all my MTB’s, eat cake and get fat
b) as a, but become a roadie
c) embrace the fact that as all riding is now realistically a car journey away anyway I may as well use it as an excuse to buy a ‘trail’* bike rather than an XC mile muncher and head further afield to ride in Wales/Surrey etc.
*I’d say enduro, but I’ve done the whole 150mm travel, 65deg HA 30lb+ mini-DH bike thing before and hated it on anything other than a DH track.
How do you cope without being able to “just get out and ride”?