Average driving distance

I am a lucky guy...I can hit stuff at home or on the drive home from work.
The harder, kick my ass trials are on the way home, out in Baltimore County
as too are my faves, a bunch of fire trails around one of the city water
supplies. As far the ritual loading, no getting out of that one guy! The
only option to that one is do what you can the night before. I keep my gear
in a duffle so the hard part is putting the bike in my pick up! Freeze the
water bottle that night, dump the Gatorade in the bottle in the morning, let
it thaw in the truck, summer time means putting the bottle in an insulated
bag so it's still got some coolness to it come ride time.

Count your blessings, when you do the ride from the house, the shower is
closer, so is the post ride meal, and oh yeah, so is the hose! My
suggestion....ride the local roads and look new trials; take that road you
never went down before .....no telling what you will find! I found one just
the other day!

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I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to

the

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closest legal trail system. When I lived in Germany I could open the

garage

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door ride about a hundred yards and find trails in almost any direction to
ride. I'm finding that the ritual of loading everything I need for a ride
(bike, pump, tools, dry clothes) and driving the 20-30 minutes is causing

me

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to ride less and less. To ride a kick ass trail it's an even longer drive.
If I ever buy any property it will be saturated with trails...I hate the
drive!! When I ride I want to ride....not drive and ride.

MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to the
closest legal trail system. When I lived in Germany I could open the garage
door ride about a hundred yards and find trails in almost any direction to
ride. I'm finding that the ritual of loading everything I need for a ride
(bike, pump, tools, dry clothes) and driving the 20-30 minutes is causing me
to ride less and less. To ride a kick ass trail it's an even longer drive.
If I ever buy any property it will be saturated with trails...I hate the
drive!! When I ride I want to ride....not drive and ride.

Within 20 miles of my door, I can probably find probably two dozen
trails, some with real backcountry flavor.

I live in downtown SLC, and the Bonneville Shoreline trail is two riding
miles from my door. That's a very popular trail (obviously, being so
close to town), but it has everything you'd want in a mountain/foothil
trail except for serious technical stuff. This includes rattlesnakes and
mountain lions if you're exceedingly (un)lucky.

The Wasatch Crest trailhead is about 12 miles away, with true mtb
action. Mueller Park in Bountiful is likewise in the other direction.

Park City's well laid out trail system is 30 miles away. I really must
do the Mid-mountain loop again soon.

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MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails.

I've got a 4km ride to some reasonable trails in one direction, a 9km
ride to some others in the other direction. Go further than 15km and
unlimited options are open to me. Anything over 10km and I'll usually
throw the bike on the back of the car and drive, otherwise I usually
ride unless I'm feeling super lazy.

There are a couple of rough along-the-foreshore and around behind the
sanddunes and local bike paths kinda rides 1 or 2km from me too - good
for an afterwork blast on those short winter days.
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I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to
the closest legal trail system. When I lived in Germany I could open the
garage door ride about a hundred yards and find trails in almost any
direction to ride. I'm finding that the ritual of loading everything I
need for a ride (bike, pump, tools, dry clothes) and driving the 20-30
minutes is causing me to ride less and less. To ride a kick ass trail it's
an even longer drive. If I ever buy any property it will be saturated with
trails...I hate the drive!! When I ride I want to ride....not drive and
ride.

I live in Carroll County Md and have some decent trails (for the area)
right out my door.
If I want to ride local favorites its about a 20 minute drive.

Marty

I lead two lives, one in AZ and another in Northern VA. In AZ its
easy, out the door and ride, as am next to BLM, military, National
Wildlife Refuge, and National Park borders. By contrast, in Northern
Virginia, there's just not much inside an hour. Though if you are
willing to go the hour, you get to Gambrill, and if you go 90 minutes,
you get to GW National Forest/Shenandoah. There are local suburban
trails in the Northern VA area but with the rare exception, not much of
a ride, unfortunately. Those of you in places like Boulder or SLC
where you can ride great immediately are soooo lucky.

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I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their
local trails.

Can ride out of my backyard. The normal Wed night after work ride is
about 8 miles away...

MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to the

I can ride 1/4 of a mile to my local trails - a few only about 8 miles
round trip and very un-inspiring, or my next nearest FUN trail is about
20 miles away.

J

MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails.

I have fireroads about 5 miles away (and 1,000 feet up!), but no real
trails. The closest singletrack trails are 30-40 minutes drive. It has
caused me to ride less and less, particularly solo rides. I can't justify
spending over an hour driving to a trail for a solo ride. So I end up
riding the fireroads over and over, which were never very exciting in the
first place and even less so now that I've ridden then hundreds of times.
Bummer!

When I started MTBing, I lived near Dallas; I had trails a few blocks from
my house. That was nice.

The upside, though, is that I can drive to some REALLY fantastic trails
now. In Dallas, there weren't any trails that I'd call spectacular.

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MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to
the

I can ride 1/4 of a mile to my local trails - a few only about 8 miles
round trip and very un-inspiring, or my next nearest FUN trail is about
20 miles away.

J

I have stuff right outside my door here in Laguna Beach. After years of
riding Orange County Trail they mostly bore me, switched to single speed for
local rides and that has helped. I will drive nearly anywhere for a good
trail especially if it is high altitude alpine forest or better yet above
the timberline. I wish that Lake Tahoe was closer! I routinely drive 150+
miles round trip to get to Big Bear, San Gabriel's and SART.

MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to the
closest legal trail system. When I lived in Germany I could open the garage
door ride about a hundred yards and find trails in almost any direction to
ride. I'm finding that the ritual of loading everything I need for a ride
(bike, pump, tools, dry clothes) and driving the 20-30 minutes is causing me
to ride less and less. To ride a kick ass trail it's an even longer drive.
If I ever buy any property it will be saturated with trails...I hate the
drive!! When I ride I want to ride....not drive and ride.

1.5 miles if I drive 0 if I don't...so 1.5 + 0 / 2 = 1.5 avg

Peace,
Bill

The First law, Inertia: Unless acted upon by an outside force,
a body at rest tends to stay at rest,
and a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Sir Isaac Newton

BB said:

The closest singletrack trails are 30-40 minutes drive. It has

caused me to ride less and less, particularly solo rides. I can't
justify
spending over an hour driving to a trail for a solo ride.

Ping me next time you feel like driving this direction & you won't have
to ride solo, dude. 😉 I'm headed up to High Prairie tomorrow.

gabrielle

I would say about 40 minutes...since I'm new into this, all three state
parks I can think of are about equidistant... one of the downfalls of
being in central OH.

MTBlood said:

I'm curious to what everyone's average driving distance is to their local
trails. The reason I am curious is I have to drive close to 20 miles to the
closest legal trail system. When I lived in Germany I could open the garage
door ride about a hundred yards and find trails in almost any direction to
ride. I'm finding that the ritual of loading everything I need for a ride
(bike, pump, tools, dry clothes) and driving the 20-30 minutes is causing me
to ride less and less. To ride a kick ass trail it's an even longer drive.
If I ever buy any property it will be saturated with trails...I hate the
drive!! When I ride I want to ride....not drive and ride.

The really good ones 6 miles in one direction and 8
miles in the other. Got a few closer with in 2 miles but they can bore
you.

Bill Wheeler said:

1.5 miles if I drive 0 if I don't...so 1.5 + 0 / 2 = 1.5 avg

That's some really interesting math there, Bill.

CC

On 7 Aug 2005 16:55:01 -0700, "Corvus Corvax" <[email hidden]>

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Bill Wheeler said:

1.5 miles if I drive 0 if I don't...so 1.5 + 0 / 2 = 1.5 avg

That's some really interesting math there, Bill.

CC

Yeah, math is a funny thing...very philosophical sometimes.

Peace,
Bill
The First law, Inertia: Unless acted upon by an outside force,
a body at rest tends to stay at rest,
and a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Sir Isaac Newton

Rhybeka said:

I would say about 40 minutes...since I'm new into this, all three state
parks I can think of are about equidistant... one of the downfalls of
being in central OH.

Check this website out for OH info: http://www.spokejunkies.com

I ride from the casa here in SoCal to get to some urban singletrack
that connects up in a series of greenways and parks. Other than that,
I trip up to the places Dean mentioned, though rarely have to drive
over 100 miles.

JD

Dean A. Stepper said:

I wish that Lake Tahoe was closer! I routinely drive 150+
miles round trip to get to Big Bear, San Gabriel's and SART.

Must admit the last few weeks ive driven 250 mile round trips to do
some long rides in aid of the huge influx of MV posts, it really made
me feel better!

JD said:

Rhybeka said:

I would say about 40 minutes...since I'm new into this, all three state
parks I can think of are about equidistant... one of the downfalls of
being in central OH.

Check this website out for OH info: http://www.spokejunkies.com

I ride from the casa here in SoCal to get to some urban singletrack
that connects up in a series of greenways and parks. Other than that,
I trip up to the places Dean mentioned, though rarely have to drive
over 100 miles.

JD

woot! thanks for the site JD! I knew about Alum Creek, but not the
others... though it would make sense - driving 30 min. from downtown
columbus and you're in the middle of cornfields and cows... 😄

Coyoteboy said:

Must admit the last few weeks ive driven 250 mile round trips to do
some long rides in aid of the huge influx of MV posts, it really made
me feel better!

Hmmm...maybe if my filters weren't working so well I'd be riding more!

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