50% from home. Weekend home is three miles from Dalby.
i cycle about 6 miles to the trails the time saving if i drive is negligible when compared to the faff of putting the bike in and out of the car etc- I have to leave at pretty much the same time if meeting mates and it means I miss a good descent on the way home as I come home a different way
I never drive to the local trails unless i am going with my kids
Probably +90% from home - did decide partially to live where we are (in Surrey Hills) for the riding. It’s espically good for those beautiful day WFH moments that make work/life balance so much better.
This is not directed at anyone in particular...but for those who don't have the ability to understand why I personally drive 10mins to start a local ride.
I live in one of the remotest parts of the country in a valley with steep sided hills on either side ..and while I could leave the house and within a few minutes be on very quiet singletrack roads ..the key word here is roads ..I absolutely hate with a passion riding on the road.
A 10 minute car drive cuts out a journey which would take 30mins on my bike and gets me to the edge of a forest which covers 250sq.miles in total and has limitless amounts of off road riding ..this is why I have a mountain bike .
Those of you banging on about "time saving " really are missing the point..I don't care how long it takes to pack or unpack the car my riding isn't governed by that factor ..it takes as long as it takes and on a solo ride its on my terms.
I should also point out that as I'm self employed time is something that I have chosen over money ..its worth a whole lot more ..and my riding isn't governed by having to rush around to be somewhere else...
Hope that clears things up for you clockwatchers.. 8) 😀
Doesn't tjagain live in a flat in the middle of Edinburgh?
It probably does only take 15-20 minutes to cover the same distance as you can drive in 10 once you've driven yourself through the city. Add in all the faff of getting the bike in/out and so on it's only going to make it worse.
I know the times i've lived in cities it's really not worth the hassle of driving for less than 8-10 miles (depending on how fit you are of course). Especially if you have to find parking when you get home.
Where i am now, i can be on the motorway in under 10 minutes, including getting the bike on/in the car. So driving is quicker if i'm travelling more than a handful of miles. I also have a drive. So it's convenient on the way home too.
To be honest, i wish more people realised how stupid driving around a city at little more than walking pace actually is.......
i often drive <10 minutes to ride too, but thats usually when the dog is coming along as it avoids the road bits. also good to have somewhere to shove the bikes if we go in the pub afterwards, maybe grab a dry jumper... takes zero time to park and grab the bike out the van!
I mainly ride my cx bike from the door & maybe once or twice in midsummer I'll ride the mtb from home.
Occasionally I'll drive 10 mile to enjoy a 100% off road ride on my mtb.
I do pick my times though - early mornings - no traffic.
Hobnobs anyone?
Just the choccie ones..ta
100% from home for my whole life. I have never put my bike in a car and taken it anywhere.
As a teenager I would even ride 7 miles to get to a BMX track (on a BMX)
95% from home. South Edinburgh, so the Pentlands are only 20mins ride away.
How does the innocuous question 'do you ride from home?' degenerate into such chaos?
And some wonder why others don't bother posting in the forum 🙄
TJ, think you need to chill out & go for a ride mate. Time spent arguing petty opinions on an internet forum is time you could spend out on the trails, them ones from your doorstep 😉
All my solo rides are from home except if I'm combining it with something else (I assume I can include riding from my parents' house!). The fact that there's a lot of nice biking halfway to the inlaws means a mid point meet ti swap kids can be combined with a nice day out.
I'll sometimes drive for local club rides (8 miles away) but it takes so long to put the bike in the car, get changed into something dry at the end etc. that I will ride nowadays.
I do like to get some variety in, and quite often I spend more time driving to and from a place than riding (actual moving time - not time out on the bike). This is fine as I enjoy driving too and if I'm not driving I'll be getting shit chat from one of my riding buddies so it's all good.
Off road. 99.9% from home. Well roughly. Road? Maybe drive for 30 mins to an hour every couple of months or so.
Location, FoD
Smugly able to spout on about not polluting too much for leisure purposes. Might be less self righteous if I lived somewhere crap.
99% from the door; near Pontypool, South Wales. Other 1% is velodrome or very occasional TC like FoD.
Ooh, about 4.62% from the door - got some flat woods practically on the doorstep, but they're only for singlespeed with the dog. Everywhere else 15mins+ drive away.
How does the innocuous question 'do you ride from home?' degenerate into such chaos?
And some wonder why others don't bother posting in the forum
This has actually been a pretty 'low chaos' thread tbh, and for a change has pretty much stuck to the question posed by the OP... As this is mainly a road/cx/gravel forum, the high level of rides from home is quite predictable, add in the morally righteous who consider putting a bike in a car akin to racism, becomes even higher.
I'd imagine if you asked on an [i]actual[/i] mountain biking forum, the percentages would be a whole lot lower. 8)
As a teenager I would even ride 7 miles to get to a BMX track (on a BMX)
That reminded me, we once rode our BMXs from Sheffield to Chesterfield (down a dual carriageway! silly kids...) to go to the skatepark. That was after riding 5/6 miles from home into the town centre and spending half the day riding. Wish I was that fit now!
Now I live next to Wharncliffe woods, so almost always straight from home, unless I go to Sherwoodpines or to a race.
0% Aston Hill is my nearest riding spot (15 miles) there might be stuff a bit closer but still a drive away and just flat xc stuff
About 90% from the door as I have a great range of riding available, and I tend to ride alone. I'll generally drive short distances if I'm meeting mate's to ride as we'll tend to meet for breakfast etc and I just find it nicer to do it that way. I also have a few trips to trail centre's or the lake's etc. I do generally ride for fun rather than moral supremacy.
almost 0.
I definatly have ridden to work - then ridden after work.
It would have been >50% in the previous house.
Road riding there's loads from the door but MTB is difficult.
10 minute drive doesn't equate to 15 minute cycle here. we're 'trapped' by the motorway to some extent and many of the roads you can cycle on I wouldn't. It involves a long and convoluted route which might take 40 mins on a MTB.
Its a shame as my commute is 14 km east and pretty nice. My OHs commute is 5 km (nice achievable distance) but not at all safe by bike.
and a 10 min drive does not take 30 mmins to ride unless you are either a really slow rider or speed furiously all the time inyour car.- and the extra faff about will take a chunk of time. Parking both ends, changing, cleaning the car etc
You are indeed talking pish, I'm afraid TJ. It's perfectly possible to do a 10 minute drive to save a 30 minute ride.
I used to live in one town and ride just outside another, when I was in college. I always rode, because I didn't have a car. It took me about 40 minutes. It's 10 miles, and includes hills. But at the time it was NSL nearly all the way so you could easily drive it in less than 15. Parking took seconds as you could swing into an FC car park off the main road. As for the other things - getting changed, cleaning the car - none of that is necessary. Nowadays with baggies I drive in my riding kit and if I've got muddy (which I haven't always ) I just whip the outer baggies off and drive home in the liners. With an estate car you can just pop the bike in the back, it takes seconds.
Blimey, had to trawl through to find the "chaos" - a bit of bickering easy to ignore on page 3..
oh it's spilt over here now! 😆
