Where to move to !

New Mexico has a nice combination of mountains and climate, and when I lived there (some years ago) it had a very active cycling community.

cesvw said:

Well i live in Chicago and i want to move to a place where mountains are at so i can take cycling to the next level some choices are Spain, Colorado, California where else ? any advice also if it can be warm there the better
thanks

I love the Lakeshore Drive Bike Path in Chicago -- flat and few interruptions! I would certainly miss LSD if I moved. The bike path from Olive Park to Brywn Mawr is exactly 7 miles. I do laps for a long ride!

I've been to Atlanta, GA -- and they have a mountain park nearby the city called Stone Mountain. Isn't the Tour De Georgia held nearby ? I guess there'd be more hills and mountains in Atlanta, but cars will really get [censored] at you biking in a single lane hill route.

Tell me if you visit Atlanta to check it out.

KENTUCKY 🙂
Easteren Ky has tons of beauty and lots of Mt roads to ride
and a simluar climate to what your used to 🙂

cesvw said:

Well i live in Chicago and i want to move to a place where mountains are at so i can take cycling to the next level some choices are Spain, Colorado, California where else ? any advice also if it can be warm there the better
thanks

Well being I was born and raised in Boulder, CO. I would have to say Colorado by far!!!
You can't beat the mountains and the cycling is some of the best around whether it's road or mountain.

TechJD said:

KENTUCKY 🙂
Easteren Ky has tons of beauty and lots of Mt roads to ride
and a simluar climate to what your used to 🙂

The Berkshires of Western Mass ALSO have tons of beauty and lots of MT roads to ride. But Kentucky has better bourbon.

COLORADO SUCKS!!!!!!! You'd never like it here. You think the humidity in Chicago is bad, woooo-wee, and the bugs!! You could do a lot better!! OK, in all seriousness though, I just moved out here from Bloomington, IL about 5 years ago and have NO intentions of going back. Although Spain would be pretty dang cool. Good luck wherever you decide to go.

cesvw said:

Well i live in Chicago and i want to move to a place where mountains are at so i can take cycling to the next level some choices are Spain, Colorado, California where else ? any advice also if it can be warm there the better
thanks

anyplace that has an indoor velodrome nearby. track riding/racing is so much fun, and you will be able to ride it year round. that's the place i will be moving to in a few years.

cesvw said:

Well i live in Chicago and i want to move to a place where mountains are at so i can take cycling to the next level some choices are Spain, Colorado, California where else ? any advice also if it can be warm there the better
thanks

The climate is not bad here and the mountains are pretty tough. Lance trains just across the mtns. in NC on similar terrain. Unless you are wealthy I would also take a look at the various job markets corresponding to your background.
If you are wealthy I apologize and wonder if you would like to give to JHERF (jhuskey early retirement fund) 20's & 50's will be fine.

jhuskey said:

The climate is not bad here and the mountains are pretty tough. Lance trains just across the mtns. in NC on similar terrain. Unless you are wealthy I would also take a look at the various job markets corresponding to your background.
If you are wealthy I apologize and wonder if you would like to give to JHERF (jhuskey early retirement fund) 20's & 50's will be fine.

All the locations mentioned above are COLD half the year. The San Francisco Bay Area, specifically northern Marin county, is great -- rolling hills, some flats, clean air, mild winter (50 degrees), a good 2250 ft mountain.

Santa Barbara would be high on any thinking person's list. Perfect temps, sunny, great hills. Problem... just like the SF area, it's SUPER expensive ($1 million for a small and/or dumpy home, depending on exact location), but worse... no jobs that pay anything!

Aztec said:

All the locations mentioned above are COLD half the year. The San Francisco Bay Area, specifically northern Marin county, is great -- rolling hills, some flats, clean air, mild winter (50 degrees), a good 2250 ft mountain.

Santa Barbara would be high on any thinking person's list. Perfect temps, sunny, great hills. Problem... just like the SF area, it's SUPER expensive ($1 million for a small and/or dumpy home, depending on exact location), but worse... no jobs that pay anything!

Actually the winters are reasonably mild here. Ocassionaly a pretty cold day but it changes fast. I ride most of the winter except in the cold rain or 35 mph winds but the job market can be a pain in the a**. The real estate taxes are excellent. Mountains = 6600 ft +. It does get a little colder up there. The thing that slows me down the most is lack of daylight in the evenings after work.

You might want to consider utah. I moved here a few years ago and love it. The choices both on pavement and off are extensive. I'm a little over 3 hours from moab, and have great road riding right out my front door (there are many great dirt routes that are much closer than moab). Most of the major streets actucally have bike lanes too. As mentioned above the winters can get a little cold here, but we've go awesome skiing to make up for it. Most of the population is along the wasatch front so getting a job should be too hard. Here are a few climbs that are all less than a hour from my house (by bike).

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Sounds good thanks for the help i got a chance to go to salida, co but don't know much about it. Also i am going to send out my resume to spain because so many people say that it's better to make it if you just go to europe. I know the states has hard races here but for illinois i moved up from a cat 5 to cat 3 and when i got to the 3's for abr i got 2nd in the state championship and uscf i got 3rd in the state championship so if i want to race in the european peloton i need to do it now because i am 24 yrs old. so maybe spain it is if i get a job
thanks
cesar

cesvw said:

Sounds good thanks for the help i got a chance to go to salida, co but don't know much about it. Also i am going to send out my resume to spain because so many people say that it's better to make it if you just go to europe. I know the states has hard races here but for illinois i moved up from a cat 5 to cat 3 and when i got to the 3's for abr i got 2nd in the state championship and uscf i got 3rd in the state championship so if i want to race in the european peloton i need to do it now because i am 24 yrs old. so maybe spain it is if i get a job
thanks
cesar

Good luck!