My Favorite Riding Area

Nice!

Most everywhere I ride is sorta like that....U.S. Highway 6 for a mile, braving 70+ mph semi trucks, campers towing various racing vehicles and lotto ladies racing to the next convenience store, and then off to miles and miles of smooth unihabited roads including some perfectly groomed dirt roads and paved one laners.

I too have a few designated "areas for taking a break".

I live in the city and only a few miles of range so mine is mostly in traffic or back in the hood. I am hoping to do some bike trail riding soon. This new bike I'm perfecting looks less like a motor bike.

it does have a larger front wheel now

I have bike path envy

Joe, Charged - those paths and roads are beautiful, must be a joy to cruise! We've only one bike path around here, paved - it runs parallel to a major highway for about five miles.

Not only is it the only designated pedestrian/bicycle route, it's really the fastest and easiest way to get from one town to another by any means other than car so it's very very crowded and I tend to avoid it with my screaming two stroke unless it's the middle of the business day. Weekends are insane!

The roads are either highways or crazy rural routes. The latter while fun is hilly, twisty, no shoulder at all, and torn up so bad by erosion and frost heaves that I fear for my rims at the least... Prolly still safer than deacon's city riding tho heh

I still love ridin' em

I do however have a favorite "path" to ride (a few actually) but it's a bit of a challenge and not all that relaxing until ya give up and jus sit down awhile lol;


There is defo little traffic and absolutely NO houses anywhere near that path!

my favorite riding spot is all over the place in orange county, ca.

weaving through rush hour traffic, getting cut off by busses, almost run down by SUV's, powersliding into starbucks parking lots because the her bmw couldn't wait for me to pass before turning into the driveway to get her coffee, morons on non-motored bikes going the wrong way in bike lanes making me swerve into traffic, taco trucks in santa ana, everyone else in costa mesa that doesn't stop at the 4ways, drivers who can't figure out when to make a right at the light when i'm stuck in their turn lane (who usually wait till the light turns green, cutting me off,) and the ones who are stuck next to me at the light, while my exhaust fumes blow into their windows...

it's awesome. wouldn't live anywhere else.

*note to self*

bairdco isa psycho


lol

i'm a realist. traffic is out to get me. that's just part of the game.

Charged-Reacter said:

I seen on TV that they are places in the United States that are
trying out no road signs or traffic signals. The vehicles watch out for
bicycles. The bicycles watch out for themselfs. A pedistrian is on his own.
They claim over in Europe this is working and the accident rates have dropped.
The claim is that drivers will watch the roads more and not just watch out for
oncomimg signs ahead .

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This is sooo true!!! In Rome, there are literally 4 traffic lights in the whole city!! There are hardly any stop signs & everyone drives totally crazy!!
But to tell the truth, there weren't any accidents; & it only takes about 10 minutes to get from one side of the city to the other!
The trick is that they have "circles" instead of intersections.