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we need that as a sticky 🙂 🙂
as little as possible. i like to ride out of the door. often 5 miles to start a night ride although in the warmer weather i often cycle that too.
I know pwople who are local who do 150 mi+ every weekend to get to south wales; this baffles me.
The majority of my riding is from the front door but have no problem with driving big distances for days in the mountains/weekends way with mates etc.
Biggest drive for a weekend away this year was Edinburgh to Llanberis on friday night, Snowdon in morning, drive to Dolgellau, Cadair Idris in afternoon, over to Shrewsbury Sat night to visit some friends, back home Sunday. A lot of driving for a days riding but well worth it.
I dont think I would have been so keen on the sport for such a long time if I had to drive for all of my riding as a lot of people seem to though.
I don't drive, so it's all from the door - though I do jump on the train to cut out 10-15km of flat boring road...
When someone else is driving, I go with the same theory of the ride having to be longer than the journey duration to make it "worthwhile". However it is rare to drive and more often on weekends away etc
"Smoten" I particularly like. One for the OED surely.
15 mins to the Malverns. Smidge more to the FoD. 10 mins to some local woods with decent singletrack where I takes kids/dog. 20 mins if I ride to some other woods which was ace until the FC logged all the trails.
Wales/Mynd about an hour. Afan 1hr20ish so that's doable as well. Always good to ride somewhere else. You can get all hand wringing about the environmental impact, but there is more to a carbon footprint than getting in the car once a month!
Biggest drive for a weekend away this year was Edinburgh to Llanberis on friday night, Snowdon in morning, drive to Dolgellau, Cadair Idris in afternoon, over to Shrewsbury Sat night to visit some friends, back home Sunday. A lot of driving for a days riding but well worth it.
I'd drive all the way from Spain for a bit of that! 😉
I think last year I did zero and my riding suffered, this year more driving and therefore more riding.
[i]Thou shalt not journey more than an hour yet ride thine iron steed for but 59 minutes lest thou shalt be smoten with bombers and thine sandals shalt runneth over with wee[/i]
MINT! 😀
i can ride straight from the door but its only an hour loop.40 mins drive to bristol or the same to burrington combe for some better riding.
It's only about 3 km of quiet back road to Nant-yr-Arian or to the Nant-y-Moch climb on the trans-cambrian sportive in the other direction out of the village so it seems a little rude to drive.
About an hour to the peaks usually.
No decent riding out of the door, so once you're in the car, may as well drive to somewhere decent.
That's what mountainbiking is about. For most people riding from their house is called road riding. Which is a different thing entirely.
I think you may be confusing 'mountain biking' with 'driving cars' which seems to be a common mistake on this forum :-/