Anyone else out foreign?

Joxer_S

Anyone else on here not live in Ireland? I'm out in Boston myself

LCD

Looks like your all by yourself:)
Whats cycling like in Boston? I lived out in Idaho once apon a time & was a reasonable cycling scene. This was the proper sticks!

Coronal

Not quite all by himself! I'm Irish, but living in Munich at the moment. Some nice cycling around these parts

Hail 2 Da Thief

I was living in Vancouver but moved home last week

Hoping to move to New Zealand in the near future though

ballyharpat

Living in New Paltz, about 80 miles north of NYC. Some of the best cycling in the world here, 3 mile hills, 40 mile flats, everything a cyclist could want, great cycling community, very few racers up here though, but lots of try athletes .
Most races are 1.5+ hrs away, but there is one pretty much every weekend.
There are 3-4 races a week in the city and an enormous amount of cyclists down there, doesn't appeal to me though.

Looking forward to cycling back home as I only got into it about 5 years ago and have been gone for over 11 years.

Joxer_S

Some nice rides up north west of the city, not much in the way of hills though.

I'm moving home soon enough myself, what's up with that, I thought it was the other direction we are all supposed to be heading!

ballyharpat

Joxer_S wrote: »

Some nice rides up north west of the city, not much in the way of hills though.

I'm moving home soon enough myself, what's up with that, I thought it was the other direction we are all supposed to be heading!

I think you have to leave to appreciate Ireland, a lot of people that I talk that p%^# and moan about Ireland are ones that have travelled for short lengths of time, but never truly "lived" in another country, the only thing I don't like about Ireland is the climate, but at least there is not 2-4 feet of snow on the ground for 4 months of the year.

scottreynolds

ballyharpat wrote: »

I think you have to leave to appreciate Ireland, a lot of people that I talk that p%^# and moan about Ireland are ones that have travelled for short lengths of time, but never truly "lived" in another country, the only thing I don't like about Ireland is the climate, but at least there is not 2-4 feet of snow on the ground for 4 months of the year.

You obviously missed this last winter.

ballyharpat

lol, I heard about it, meanwhile we had 3 foot of snow here in one day, I recall about 6 yrs ago when there was two weeks in January that the sun never came out and the temperature never got above 28F brrrrrr......

p

Coronal wrote: »

Not quite all by himself! I'm Irish, but living in Munich at the moment. Some nice cycling around these parts

Juts moved to Munich myself. Coronal - drop me a PM, would love to get some tips from you.

MrCreosote

Living down in NZ myself. Good cycling scene here- more into the tris myself, they're pretty big too.

The motorists are psycho though! Spent 6 months back home last year and definitely appreciated the Irish drivers (never thought I'd say that...)

randomname2005

Out in South Korea. Only recently got a bike as it has been nigh on impossible to find anything larger than an 18 or 19 inch frame.

Cycling scene - mainly mountain biking - is starting to pick up. As MrCreosote said, never thought I would miss the Irish drivers!

Joxer_S

It took them a year of trying but I was successfully swiped out of it by one of Boston's legendary drivers last week. I'm a little surprised to hear praise (of sorts) for Ireland's drivers, I only started cycling out here so I can't really compare

rp

p wrote: »

Juts moved to Munich myself. Coronal - drop me a PM, would love to get some tips from you.

I'm jealous: there is deffo some fine cycling in those parts, like to the Hirschgarten, to the Taxisgarten, to Westpark, the Augustinerkeller, a person can work up a mean mean thirst...

MrCreosote

Joxer_S wrote: »

I'm a little surprised to hear praise (of sorts) for Ireland's drivers, I only started cycling out here so I can't really compare

White vans, taxis etc are pretty much the same the world over, but the run of the mill Irish driver is pretty good really, and on crappy roads too.