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How many of you MTB from home, and if so roughly what percentage of your rides are from home as opposed to driving somewhere?
For me it's about 90% from home.
0% from home.
Don't drive, so I'd guess 99% of mine start from home!
I ride from home, but the ridings not great, so if I want good riding I drive to it.
Probably 75% from home.
50% I suppose. Going from home means I can ride more, driving means I can ride somewhere more fun.
99.99% from home.
Oh and can you please say what area you live in?
90% from home in South Wales.
What if you need to drive to your other home?
Does that still count?
85% from home - Clyde Valley mostly
10% from caravan - River Annan
80% from home.
Ride the gravel bike from home as it's my commuter and occasional wandering bike.
No MTB from home as I'm the wrong side of town for it and it creates too much hassle washing the bike afterwards. Living in a flat means the bike has to be clean when it comes in and washing it outside after a ride means leaving it for a minute or so unattended with nothing to lock it to so if I do go riding locally I'll drive across town and park next to the Taff Trail then ride from there. Means I can wash it when I get back to the car (Mobi washer is a godsend!) then it's straight off the car rack into the flat when I get home.
When I next move, either to my own place or rented, riding from the door will be a must!
Probably about 80% from home. North Worcestershire.
85% from home. New Forest.
Bout 5% - NW Manchester. Only really do it when I'm pushed for time or feeling a bit tired, it's an ok ride but it's massive overkill having a 160 full sus on it! Good justification for n+1 I suppose, but haven't worked up to it yet as there's no space for another bike in the house and the shed is flimsy as a flimsy thing. That new Cotic Bfe does look very nice though...
99% from home. Just north of Manchester.
No MTB from home as I'm the wrong side of town for it and it creates too much hassle washing the bike afterwards. Living in a flat means the bike has to be clean when it comes in and washing it outside after a ride means leaving it for a minute or so unattended with nothing to lock it to so if I do go riding locally I'll drive across town and park next to the Taff Trail then ride from there. Means I can wash it when I get back to the car (Mobi washer is a godsend!) then it's straight off the car rack into the flat when I get home.
Couldn't you leave the mobi washer in your car outside your flat and ride from home and then wash it outside your flat next to your car?
Live at the foot of the West Pennine Moors, so some great riding from my doorstep. Convenient, but still doesn't stop me racking up the miles in the car to ride elsewhere
0% from home - Herefordshire
edit- for a rural county we have surprisingly few bridalways
All my recreational rides start from home.
If I'm going to the South Downs to do a handful of cat3/4 hills, I treat the ~11-13 mile (depending upon where I'm heading initially, these days I often like to start with the "River to hilltop" segment near Soberton) journey out there as a gradual ~40+min warm-up from Bitterne on the east side of Southampton.
In terms of total number of rides, around 60 - 70% from home, but in terms of time / distance most probably equal or slight majority away from home. I'm in the Scottish Borders.
100% I live in the Peak District.
Sussex coast, 95% from home. Out of the drive, pull a super-sweet wheelie 100m to the end of the road,cross the A27 and I'm shredding the gnar! (By shredding the gnar I mean bridleway slogging 45 minutes to the decent trails but still, mustn't grumble).
97.5 from home, 10 minutes ride from Cannock Chase. Young kids mean don't have the time to travel and ride which is usually a day out.
I can't find the percentage sign on my phone.
97% from home, 1/4 mile to off road, 2 miles to decent off road
99% from home, both road and mtb. The other 1% is an occasional sportive somewhere else. I live in a small town at the bottom of the mountains to the west of Madrid.
Approaching zero % of MTB rides are from the door for me.
Nightrides typically a half hour drive.
Out for the day usually involves an hour's drive to South/mid Lakes or Calderdale, or an hour and a half-ish to North Lakes.
Only ever ride from home if it's for the exercise, rather than the enjoyment as there's little 'tech' on the doorstep but the big hills are close enough in the car.
Probably 50% of my rides are from the front door - lucky the woods are 10 mins from my house 🙂
99.9% from home, 0.1% is when I'm on holiday near somewhere with decent but easy to navigate riding, or that day I took my bike to the pump track.
I live on the edge of cannock chase, 20 mins off road ride from the start of the trails, 6 minutes from Marquis Drive, 5 mins along the main road from the nearest decent off piste stuff. If I do the main trails I'm off road in less than 2 minutes.
Mtb rides are probably 95% from home but mainly consist of weekly local night rides. Road probably 90% from home with rest being trips away and crits in summer, CX almost always chucked in the car to drive to Local cx league races.
I think probably ~50-75% toward the 75 end possibly. Live in mid Wales, near Nant-y-arian. Trails tend to be quite long and rocky so there don't tend to be a lot of them in a small area (we did have a woods packed full of trails but it got felled 🙁 ) so sometimes I get a bit bored and drive a bit further afield.
95% (Hobart TAS) at the moment but nowhere near the variety I used to get from a 30min drive in other places. 50/50 would be a good split unless you had the variety of somewhere like the Lakes/Peak on your doorstep
Sussex downs. 75% from home. It would be more but most weeks I ride with friends who are more Brighton way so I drive to the start.
50-60% I would say
I ride from home, but the ridings not great, so if I want good riding I drive to it.Probably 75% from home
I live on the flat side of Leeds btw...I even have to drive to a bmx track!!
Pretty much all the time. In Bolton so right on the edge of the moors.
Only time I haven't this year is if I have been away for the weekend for the purpose of biking (twice this year)
95% from home. Brighton. 10 minutes to the nearest singletrack!
Excluding races, 80% from home. Another 10% of the driving i could easily ride to the venues from home in about 20 minutes but choose not too out of laziness
West Midlands, 99% from home, no interest in getting a bike in the car to go for a bike ride, no interest at all. The bikes I own work for the terrain local to me, no mountains so no 160mm bike.
I reckon once a year I will get the train to Cannock but every time I do I regret the time travelling when I could be riding my bike.
Stafford, around 80% from home. Live about 25 mins ride down the canal to the nearest entry point of Cannock Chase. Sometimes I'll drive if I'm passing on my way home from work. Rest of my riding is more likely in South Wales while visiting family so have to use the car then.
Zero from home, South west London, if I'm riding from home I'll use the cx bike.
80% from home. Only 5 minutes ride from the local woods. Flat and short trails, but enough off-piste to keep things interesting.
East Northants.
I live in north Notts with bridleways a quarter of a mile from my door so usually in the week I'll ride a couple of times locally then at the weekend I'll drive to the Peak, so 66%-33%
90% from home. The local riding isn't great but neither am I. The faff of loading the bike into the car and unloading/cleaning a muddy bike with on street parking and no outside storage means I prefer to just hop on the bike and go.
In Lancs, outside Preston.
Probably about 50% 2 miles to off road and another couple to decent off road, I live not too many miles from the south end of the Peak district
95% from home. I live 2 minutes from local woods and Bridleways for further afield loops.
95% from home, edge of dartmoor. I wouldn't live somewhere without good local riding.
In the past 12 months, close to 100%, both road and MTB
But I am lucky to be within the part of Herefordshire/Worcestershire border that has plenty of bridleways within a few hundred metres of where I live
95%+ from the door.
Its generally more gravel bike territory than proper MTB, but it's what i've got available, and its quite a drive to anything much better.
97% from home, 1/4 mile to off road, 2 miles to decent off road
Single track turn left 50 metres, turn right 100 metres to trail fairy single track. 230 metre descent to the river Wye. No tarmac involved at all.
What do I win?
😆
I count myself quite lucky as I live on the edge of some hills which are littered with fantastic trails, so the majority of my riding starts and finishes from the house, with ride times ranging from 90 minutes to 3 hours.
I've now also got an opportunity to ride another hill during the week with some great loops on it, as my work has just moved to a different town and this hill is pretty much at the halfway point of my commute.
MTB - 75%. The woods are 5 mins away. Sometimes drive over to Hope (or train!) or drive to Greno/Wharncliffe. Then there's away weekends in Lakes/Wales/Scotland etc.
Road 100%.
99% very lucky to be 100m from the South Downs National Park and 10 minute ride over to Stanmer Park in Brighton. I only have to drive if I'm going to some sort of event.
If i'm riding on my own, or with the other half, it's almost 100% from home. As we have trails starting on the edge of our property which either carry on north into the local trail network (maintained). If we go south or east we are into unmaintained (but completely deserted) trails. To the east there are large chunks where i'll only see our tyre tracks and wild animal prints from one month to the next. Quite a few people follow the trail south though, as it runs parallel to the coast.
Can only ride a little way west as the sea is in the way, but even have some nice trails between us and the coast. (Mostly rock strewn and near vertical.....)
If we ride with others it's probably 50/50 we either drop down into town (usually via the trails) or drive elsewhere.
Most annoying is driving somewhere and then ending up in the back garden half way round a ride. 🙁
Road is much the same. Except we go out the front door, not the back door.
Sussex coast, 95% from home. Out of the drive, pull a super-sweet wheelie 100m to the end of the road,cross the A27 and I'm shredding the gnar! (By shredding the gnar I mean bridleway slogging 45 minutes to the decent trails but still, mustn't grumble).
^^^^^^^^^^^The same for me.
Almost everything now. I used to drive to ride a lot more when I lived in Edinburgh but with so much excellent riding around the Aviemore area I've become very lazy/adept at maximising my riding time.
My rule of [i]total driving time < riding time [/i]generally applies though.
50% from home roughly.
West Pennine Moors.
hardly ever
0% mtb from home, I live in Blackpool.
Occasional road ride from home but I don't really enjoy that, it's just for exercise.
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90% from home. The local riding isn't great but neither am I. The faff of loading the bike into the car and unloading/cleaning a muddy bike with on street parking and no outside storage means I prefer to just hop on the bike and go.In Lancs, outside Preston.
Would be interested to know where you live/ride to add a bit of variety to my more local options!
roughly 50/50
Work/home (Pentlands) vs Drive (Tweed Valley)
90 % of late as i’m Lone wolfing at the mo, taking a newbie up the Lakes Saturday so it’s back to the faff of remembering everything and driving to start point!!
95%+ from home
In the past 12 months, close to 100%, both road and MTB
But I am lucky to be within the part of Herefordshire/Worcestershire border that has plenty of bridleways within a few hundred metres of where I live
Very lucky. I live in Hereford and there are no bridalways of any use anywhere!
Probably about 10-20% from home, Love a bit of trail variety. Even if I lived in the Tweed valley, Lakes, wherever, I'd still drive to places, get bored riding the same stuff, it's like being a club golfer... 😉
99% from home. Lucky enough to live a 15 min ride to the Bristol Ashton Court/ Leigh Woods trails.
This was fundamental to me getting (back) into MTBing in the first place - not sure I would have had the motivation if I had to load up the car and drive every time, although I do love to ride bigger, better trails from time to time 🙂
97.4%
get bored riding the same stuff
I've been in this house 15 years and still finding new and different trails within 10 km of home. Just a matter of heading in different directions.
Found an abandoned quarry a couple of weeks ago. Not even on the definitive map. So must have been off the radar for ~50 years. Probably abandoned for nearer twice that. Brilliant for a bit of technical riding.
Fortunately I live in the lakes, so 90% of my rides are from the door. They do often involve the chain ferry accross Windermere, is that cheating?
I do enjoy sticking bike in the van for a trip to Scotland, Wales or even north lakes.
Probably 30% of rides from my front door
20% from the front door of place I stay for work during the week
50% involve a drive.
I live in Oldham area.
80% from home (Sheffield)
15% from wherever I'm staying on holiday
3% put bike on car and drive somewhere
2% stop on way back from visiting parents
A few road rides from home end up with me getting a train back, and I can highly recommend the micro pub on Worksop station as a good place to wait for a train !
Bristol, 98% from the door.
15 mins ride from Ashton Court / Leigh Woods.
Closer to cheeky trails.
90% from home, first and last two minutes are on tarmac, the rest is off road. Sarf Downs
About 90% live in Heptonstall on a locally well know descent. But doesn't stop me driving to have a go at something different.
get bored riding the same stuff
I've been in this house 15 years and still finding new and different trails within 10 km of home. Just a matter of heading in different directions.
Found an abandoned quarry a couple of weeks ago. Not even on the definitive map. So must have been off the radar for ~50 years. Probably abandoned for nearer twice that. Brilliant for a bit of technical riding.
60% from home - decent bridleway network for drop bar off-roading and a little bit of local woodland for short blasts. More a matter of time and access than desire, there's much better riding within a 45-90 min drive but harder to fit around family life.
99% from home - South Pennines (Littleborough). Always intending to go further afield but need to find a similarly slow buddy/group to ride with.
North Leeds.
Loads of options just out of the door.
Small kids, so 99% of riding is from home, usually once or twice a week on the MTB, and most days commuting (but usually taking in some easier trails) on the CX bike.
Get a few MTB rides further afield - Calderdale, Peaks, North York Moors as a half-day / summer evening trip, and then 2-3 weekends away to North Wales, Lakes etc.
50% from work (Malvern)
Another 20% of the time I will also ride the 8 road miles from my house first.
The Riding is fantastic but Id miss out on - well - the whole of the rest of the planet if I never got in the car
...and 99% is definitely over represented in this data set. Sort it out please!!
Yes. Pretty much all of my rides are out the front/back door and into the Peak. Driving time is riding time wasted.
96.3278% for me 🙂
Calderdale/Kirklees border
75% Epsom.
2 minutes to the dirt from my front door.
Edit, my commute is off road so make that 99.9%