Seattle Forrest

For a specific ride (group or solo), not just to get on your bike.

caloso

When you say travel does that mean transporting your bike and not riding to the ride?

rms13

Rarely if ever. I usually only do group rides where I can ride to and from the ride. Sometimes I will drive 10 miles or so to a ride if I have time constraints but I generally prefer to ride to and from home

Seattle Forrest

Yeah.

There are a lot of great rides I can reach from my front door, but there are a lot more that are too far to pedal to. I think that's true for everyone.

You might have a blast if you drove your bike out to Mono Lake and then rode up over Tioga Pass and into Yosemite. Long sustained climb, incredible scenery, bit less traffic than Sacramento ... but how often would you do it? You could always go ride Shasta instead.

I'm planning out a few more rides as fall sets in and asking myself the same question. Got snowed on a couple weeks ago at Slate Peak and I want to do a couple of mountain roads before they close.

dstrong 

3-4 times a year. Mostly for rides locally but too far to ride to. Highlight was last year when a buddy flew us and our bikes up to Wichita Falls for the Hotter 'n Hell.

RPK79

I do group rides in a town sort of between work and home twice a week (while they run them). I also a few organized rides a year. Otherwise I ride from home for the most part.

I have driven to a large hill out of town to do repeats and once last year I drove to my home town 25 miles away to hit up a bunch of hills on a route I pre-planned.

MikeyBoyAz

For each event, I only drive once... once I make it to Le Tour, I will likely have to travel every other, to every day to be at the next start.

TrojanHorse

I rarely drive if it's just me riding, but I will make a drive to meet up with friends or do a century. I'd say maybe 10 times a year? It's nice to see alternate scenery some times.

Seattle Forrest

Every spring I do a few rides from Leavenworth, a smallish mountain town about 100 miles (2.5 hours drive) from me. Usually in April, when the roads have melted but the mountain tops are still snowy.

Over the year I'll drive my bike around a lot (couple times a month) to ride some forest service road in the mountains, or out in farm country, or take a ferry and ride around an island. Always a great time. I'm trying to do new routes instead of stuff I've already seen.

I'm getting ready to go to Winthrop (~200 miles, ~4 hours drive) in part to ride over Washington Pass. Trying to decide to do it soon while the maples and cottonwoods are doing their fall color near the valley floor, or to wait a bit and go when the larches at the top turn.

Juan Foote

I would say that where I live now I drive to a starting point likely 3 out of 4 times or so. Often that point is only 1.5 miles down the road. My neighborhood is situated on one side of a main hwy and very hilly on the way out/in. If I drive a mile over to a nearby church I don't have to cross that highway, and most importantly can avoid those three killer hills on any of the routes back to the house.
Any time that I ride with the wife on the trikes, we drive to a local town with many golf cart paths, local park with paths, or the beltline in Atl. She isn't yet (and may never be) fully comfortable riding with vehicles around.

I honestly miss being able to do an 'easy' ride from right out the door anymore. I would probably ride more.

caloso

Most of my rides are from my front door or office. If I'm racing or doing a team training ride, I might drive up to 90 minutes, but never a 3-4 hour drive like to Shasta or Mono. I wish I could, but I just cannot justify the car time.

kc0bbq

3-4 times per week in season, since most of my group rides are after work, plus the occasional century or ride that I don't feel like turning from a 70 miler to a 140+ miler. Weekend group rides I'll normally ride to the start of.

redfooj

when i lived in urban texas, used to have to transport the bike 30 miles - 45 minutes of driving at 7am on saturdays - to join the club.

ride anywhere within town and youre liable to get sucked up by a pothole if youre not already flattened by an SUV.

it was a ridiculous notion to go through that trouble to spin a bicycle. now i live in a real civilized place where i can walk out the door and ride through the city or through the backwoods or up the hills or along the river as i please

HornedFrog

1/mo for a t-shirt charity ride. living in downtown dallas these are must-do's to keep my sanity.

PepeM

Rarely, but some times it is worth driving a bit to get to the nicer roads.

2manybikes

2-3 times a year.

Heathpack 

Commonly, around 3-5 rides per month.

Sometimes because I need to get a specific workout in on a specific course and riding there either would make the workout too long or not be feasible because of traffic or distance. Sometimes I am pre-riding part or all of a race course, I need to go where that course is. Sometimes just because there's lots of great mountains to ride all over SoCal.

DBrown9383

I'm a newbie but have loaded up the bikes 3x this summer for different destinations where we read the bike riding/bike paths are awesome. Each trip was well worth it but most of our riding is from the front door. I hate my trunk rack and it's always a PITA to load up the bikes so they don't get scratched or scratch the car.

Cheddarpecker

I knock my bike down every weekend and haul it about twenty miles to take it out and ride it for twenty miles. I presently ride with a friend. Otherwise, I ride from the front door when I can. Can't say much for my first year of cycling, but I intend to drive five hours for one this weekend.

deacon mark

I leave my house on the bike and then in less than 1 mile have country roads. I almost never pack the bike and take it to a ride, I have met a person I know twice in the last 5 years for a ride but frankly if I have to transport a bike..............the time is not worth it......... I could have been riding.

Machka 

We drive to a place to ride pretty much every weekend.

We try to plan weekends away (that usually involve cycling and possibly also hiking) about once a month.

We drive to specific events, every time we go to a specific event.

If we're doing a collection of randonneuring events, that might be half-a-dozen times during the more summery half of the year.

CafeVelo

My club ride is unreachable by bike. It would be a double century every Tuesday and Thursday. I'd love that, but I don't have the time, and it would be a dark ride through the city on the way home. Other than that, rarely. I go to a few event rides in interesting places a year (within the state or a short distance out of it), and I keep a bike in my car most of the time so I can ride if I want or need to, but it's not often.

HazeT

Great, now I've got obsessed about doing that Tioga pass ride. Time to start planning and being about 3 hours away, I guess it's the perfect timing to wake up @ 3, carbo load a and drive to mono lake

RJM

Every time I ride mountain bike trails I drive there with the bike on the back of the car. Just the way it is.

If I'm doing a solo ride, I leave from the house and do one of the great routes I have out in the country roads about a hundred yards from my front door. I've only driven to a few routes where I rode it solo, and that was when I was really checking out specific routes that someone told me about and the starts were all over twenty miles away with ridiculous roads to get there...so, I just couldn't ride over there. I would have no problem driving to a cool new route now, but I just don't know about any new ones.

Charity rides all require me driving to the start.

If I'm riding with the group, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday I would have to drive to the start. Tuesday leaves close enough that I can ride from the house...the start is only about 5 miles away. Thursday, what I usually do is take the bike to work and just ride from the office. That start is only blocks away from where I work and I generally have enough time to get a decent pre-ride in before the start time.

kbarch

Before I moved out of the city, I didn't even have a car, so driving wasn't an option. I did take a subway a couple of times though. Then, once I moved out of the city, I had to drive to every park race.

But for more casual rides, I've only driven to the NJ Gran Fondo. PITA. Really, no drive of less than an hour is going to get me to more interesting roads than I have virtually outside my door. I'll be riding to the start of my next event century on Sunday.

I'd still like to make a trip up to Lake Placid to take on Whiteface, but that would mean a long drive - nearly 5 hours each way.