Best Place to Live/Ride

[jshep]

The winter's starting to get me down. I still get a chance here and there to take the bike out, but when I do its mind-numbingly cold. In fact, its cold enough that its seriously got me thinking about moving.

Where's the best place to go if you want to ride year round?

[Tbirdnz]

I'm already here !


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Ride on !

[ponty]

Don't even think about crossing the Atlantic. If it's not raining then the cops are out in force, the roads are generally badly maintained once you get off the main ones (though even some of the A-roads are a bloody disgrace, if not downright dangerous for bikes) and driving standards of most road users seem to have hit an all time low. I'm seriously considering giving up road riding and just doing trackdays.

[Catenaccio]

Realistically? Arizona, California, or New Mexico, but only for year round riding.

If I'm pipe dreaming, I'd like to ride Spain and Italy then everywhere else in the world.

[31712]

Texas, or California if you can afford it. As a side note, Central Texas is one of the few locations in the US that was not hit with the housing crisis and you can still buy a brand new 1800 sq ft home here for less than 150k. Job market is stable and there's plenty to do here in the Austin area. Bad things include tornadoes and the occasional ice storm in the winter, high property tax (but no state income tax), and the drivers here are terrible. It gets cold but not midwest cold, it gets hot but not Phoenix hot. What can I say? Sometimes I feel like I am permanently in an episode of King of the Hill, but the trade-offs are there. Average 300 sunny days per year. Oh, and this is also the allergy capital of the world. Bring your Nasonex.

[bbonnett33]

Stay away from Wisconsin...-5 today and with the wind chill figured in its down to -25...I feel bad for speedy not being in a heated garage.

[dfeaster]

I have lived in MA,TX,AL,and now in southern CA. SOCAL has to be the best for riding. It is rarely wet, too hot, too cold or too anything. From where I live in Escondido the ocean view roads, mountain roads, and desert roads are all available to me in less than 45 minutes. It does cost a lot though.

-dfeaster

[MotoZiggy]

I live in Atlanta, not too far from the Appalachian Mountains. Thanks to so called "Global Warming" and our 10 years of drought, we have a 10 month riding season (11.5 if your a real man), with sunshine at least 85% of the time. Not to mention very predictable and forgiving police as long as you stay in Atlanta .. (except the GA State Patrol....vicious bastards!!) Speed limits are lightly enforced until you break the 15mph mark, which means 50mph on city streets, and up to 85mph on the highways is USUALLY not going to bring you any trouble. And I know of 3 Atlanta area cops wo sometimes show up to some....slightly less than legal bike gatherings. Granted its no "SoCal", but all and all, not a bad place.


PS...Saturday it was 70F...last night it was 23F when I was leaving the bar....day after tomorrow its supposed to be back to 65F. I LOVE global warming!!!

[31712]

Atlanta? I was born and raised in L.A. and I tell you friends that Atlanta has some of the worst traffic I have ever seen, even by L.A. standards. As a side note, I have to agree that North County San Diego is beautiful. If it wasn't so damn expensive with their economy going belling up, and the traffic now near as bad on the 15 as it is on the 5, I would be back there in a heartbeat. I remember living there in 1997 and the 15 was pretty much clear day or night..Good luck with that now!

Originally Posted by MotoZiggy

I live in Atlanta, not too far from the Appalachian Mountains. Thanks to so called "Global Warming" and our 10 years of drought, we have a 10 month riding season (11.5 if your a real man), with sunshine at least 85% of the time. Not to mention very predictable and forgiving police as long as you stay in Atlanta .. (except the GA State Patrol....vicious bastards!!) Speed limits are lightly enforced until you break the 15mph mark, which means 50mph on city streets, and up to 85mph on the highways is USUALLY not going to bring you any trouble. And I know of 3 Atlanta area cops wo sometimes show up to some....slightly less than legal bike gatherings. Granted its no "SoCal", but all and all, not a bad place.


PS...Saturday it was 70F...last night it was 23F when I was leaving the bar....day after tomorrow its supposed to be back to 65F. I LOVE global warming!!!

[mrjsrbond]

Alps rock! This is apparently the Stelvio pass on the border region between Italy and Switzerland.