Where do you do the majority of your riding?

[prolesunited]

Poll question: Where do you do the majority of your riding?

When you head out on your bike, where do you usually end up?

After answering the poll, please tell us about your favorite place to ride in your area.

[wtmusic]

1. Yo, it's up!

My favorite place: LA river bikepath. 8 miles, smooth as glass. Great before work.

[pmbryant]

2. Other: unpaved back roads!

Paved back roads are a close second, but they tend to get more traffic (3 cars an hour instead of 3 cars per afternoon).

--Peter

[BiggJawn]

3. If you can call "Chippenseal" "paved"....

But it beats trying to get down a freshly-graded gravel road...

Now there's 2 routes I enjoy locally. The first one has a mile of gravel on it, but it's a scenic 18 miles and has some gentle hills on it and has a park at the turnaround. 2 variations on it can throw in 2 hills that I have yet to be able to climb, even with a 26/34 gear, and more rollers and some flats that turn it into a 35-miler.

The other route is a 35 mile loop to the North with one long gentle climb and a 38 MPH downhill. No dogs, either...

[jpgray]

4. City streets

But I love riding around campus and on the river road system here in St. Paul / Minneapolis. Plus we have a cool cyclist gang at Hard Times and everything. :silly:

[flvegan]

5. Pinewoods singletrack

Mmmmm...palmetto roots, sugar sand and banana spiders.

We have several State Parks in the area, most of which have ample biking trails, maintained by the local mountainbike club (SWAMP). They do an awesome job, and the only reason I don't volunteer is that I'm not available the day they head out.

[Longhorn]

6. We have a veloway here in Austin

that I'd like to try but I don't have a rack for my car and I'm not sure I can put one on it. It's a convertible so no roof rack; it's very low to the ground so I don't think I can put a hitch on it; and it has a spoiler so I'm not sure about a trunk rack, though that's my best option, I think. Here's a photo of the back:



Any advice on a rack that would fit? Thanks!