What kind of riding is available to you?

[the Ferret]

VFRPaul that's who made that video. Haven't seen him post lately. Smart guy. Hope everything is ok.

[vfrpaul98_imp]

VFRPaul that's who made that video. Haven't seen him post lately. Smart guy. Hope everything is ok.

alive and well, a face shield covered in bugs and ready to mount a new set of tires. how many of us have noticed that tire mileage increases with our age
Paul.

[jchoby_imp]

I'm four minutes away from I75 and I70 or a choice of many State Routes & country roads….

[CIP57_imp]

I live in the lower Hudson Valley New York. About a mile from the Taconic State Parkway, take that north and you have the Catskill Mountain Range or go a bit east and go up route seven into the Berkshire Mountains. Great riding around this area. An overnight trip will put you into the Adirondack Mountains Lake Placid, Tupperlake, Saranac Lake

[the Ferret]

VFRPaul that's who made that video. Haven't seen him post lately. Smart guy. Hope everything is ok.

alive and well, a face shield covered in bugs and ready to mount a new set of tires. how many of us have noticed that tire mileage increases with our age
Paul.

alive and well, a face shield covered in bugs and ready to mount a new set of tires.
Paul.
The way it should be Paul, the way it should be !

[Houtman_imp]

I live 6 miles south of the Blue Ridge Parkway,just south of ASheviile,perfect roads here for the CB1100 in Western NC.

[ingobohn_imp]

I was born close to Freiburg, at the foot of the Black Forest hills (Germany), I lived there until the age of 25 - but unfortunately I had only the car driving license. I made the motor bike license years later, but now I live in Mannheim (near Heidelberg) where not so much narrow, small, single-trails are available and hills are not that numerous and curvy and steep. So in retrospect I regret that I did not made the motor bike driving license earlier.
Sometimes when I visit my parents at home, I take the bike instead of the car, pack my wife on the back seat and head south into the mountains...

[CA200_imp]

Here in Wisconsin we have one of the shorter riding seasons. But most of the secondary roads

here are paved because of the dairy industry,so I try to ride the back roads in the southwestern part of the state. These can be really great winding roads but you have to keep your eyes out for manure ,farm tractors ,and the Amish buggy's. The winters are very hard on the road conditions also.

[Guth_imp]

Here in the Portland metro area there is an urban growth boundary. Once you clear the boundary, you definitely know it; as the landscape is almost instantly transformed into rural countryside. I live on the east side of Portland so heading east, I can be "out of town" in just a few minutes. In about 1.5 hours I can be up on Mount Hood in the Cascade range. Or I can follow the Columbia River partially on a historic scenic highway lined with a trail of spectacular waterfalls for a quick trip out to Hood River and back, or I can combine the two, looping all the way around Mount Hood. Heading west, it takes me quite a bit longer to make my way through the city, but in about 1.5 hours I can be at the Pacific Ocean. Heading south, it takes less than an hour to be in rolling hills of the wine country. North of me is Washington state and all that it brings. If you look at any of the videos that I've posted, you'll see that my riding style and the CB1100 are very much suited for one another, much like ferret's experiences.

[PowderToastMan_imp]

Bay Area here.
I have access to freeways and expressways with several lanes of traffic in each direction, busy arterials, some interesting residential neighborhoods that can actually be kind of fun to cruise through (the hills up in Belmont, specifically), and not too far from some truly great mountain roads, which are actually quite diverse in their plant life. For example, the side of highway 9 closer to Silicon Valley is deciduous trees, then when you get up over the hill and to the Santa Cruz county side, it's all evergreens and redwoods.

The downside is you really have to watch out for the crazies, whether they are on cars or bikes. I've had fellow riders cause minor pucker moments on me a few times now. The car drivers have usually only committed transgressions that, while they may have pissed me off, I pretty clearly saw them coming.