Where is everyone from?

[cklein]

Lippstadt, Germany

[Sooner10]

Brentwood California, East Bay just outside of San Francisco.

[Carbon_Dude]

I bet you guys have good weather for mountain biking in California.

[Sooner10]

Carbon Dude,
I can't think of a single place in the world, and I have been to most of it, that has more diversity of landscape(mountain, desert,beach,flats,hills) with nicer weather.

I can literally ride every day of the year, and in any environment that I desire. And if I want to combine all of them during a ride, I can do that as well!

[Sitar_Ned]

Well guys in two weeks I go from to southern, humid Hot Springs, Arkansas to northern, cold, snowy Billings, Montana. Big change.

Anybody ever ridden the area? I gotta admit.. I'm a little hesitant to go running off into some Montana mountains. I mean.. grizzly bears? Hell no. I want nothing to do with them. Maybe I'm being paranoid, and feel free to call me out, but as general rule of thumb in life I want to make 100% sure that being eaten alive is not the way I go out! It is for this reason I avoid the open ocean. That being said.. seems an absolute shame to miss out on all the beautiful mountain scenery.

[Carbon_Dude]

SN, moving or just visiting?

[Sitar_Ned]

Hey CD.. moving!

[Carbon_Dude]

Good luck and stay warm.  We once moved from a warm climate (Florida) to a cold climate (New Hampshire), we learned we did not like the cold and the snow.  Chalked it up to a learning experience.  Here's to hoping you do a better job of keeping warm and enjoying your new latitude.  You are really going to need some fatter tires now!

[Sitar_Ned]

Good luck and stay warm.  We once moved from a warm climate (Florida) to a cold climate (New Hampshire), we learned we did not like the cold and the snow.  Chalked it up to a learning experience.  Here's to hoping you do a better job of keeping warm and enjoying your new latitude.  You are really going to need some fatter tires now!

Thanks! Yeah it wasn't really a decision to go to that part of the country.. just so happens to be where the opportunity presented to me is. I'm not under some delusion that I'm headed to a winter wonderland and I'm going to love the snow and cold lol. We'll see, I guess.

And yeah.. I guess you have a pretty good point that I didn't really think of.. Now I'll have an actual "valid" reason to get a 29+ frame!

[rpacker]

Southern central PA, USA.

[Carbon_Dude]

Welcome rpacker, getting cold in PA yet?

[cmh]

Southern central PA, USA.

The land of Michaux and endless rocks.

CD, in answer to your question, getting cooler but not properly cold yet. On its way, though.

[iman316]

Central MN,USA

[Midwest-MTBer]

Central MN,USA

Western WI here 

[park city big guy]

take a wild guess....