I'm considering relocating from San Diego, and I'm curious about the riding weather in other parts of the country. Particularly vermont/upstate NY area, but let's just get all parts of the country in one thread. I'm actually heading out there again this weekend to go skiing and of course see how miserable it is in the wintertime.

Storing vehicles in the garage all winter is a foreign idea to me as I've lived in various parts of SoCal all my life.

Here in San Diego, riding season is 365 days/yr with exception of the rare rainstorm, and at worst when some of the mountain roads get snow and mudslides, or when weather is in the low 40s up there. I commute to work and downtown almost daily, unless I have to haul stuff to a jobsite, or if the weather sucks. Bikes actually are more convenient than cars here, because you can lanesplit and parking is easy and free.

Tell us how long your riding season is, what you do with the bike during the offseason for storage, maintenance, insurance, or if you have the mods and desire to brave the elements and road salt.

 

South Florida... Rains in the afternoon in the summer and a little chilly sometimes in the winter, but that's being really spoiled after living here awhile. Downside is the only turns are the on and off ramps and the roads, traffic, and drivers basically suck down here. Used to love to commute because of the insane traffic. Lanesplitting is illegal here although I always did it anyway, not so much on highways but in long traffic jams at lights and intersections.

 

I grew up in upstate and lived there or vermont from age 0-26, riding road bikes since 16. I could always ride in april and almost always be reliably riding till halloween. anything before or after was hit or miss and even some of the weeks in early april/late october could be sketchy depending on your dedication. Offroad stuff goes a little later. Beautiful roads between the catskills/adirondacks, green mountains it is really a great place geographically for riding and just general outdoors life.
where you thinking of moving to?

 

Yeah I grew up in jersey and always used to get to ride with my dad (in the 'vette) up in the catskills. Wish I could ride those same roads now on a bike.

 

Not sure yet, but I fell in love with the state in general after visiting last August. We spent time with her family outside Burlington, lake Champlain, drove and rode around across the state and through NH and spent a few days in Boston. No offense to people from NH, but that place sucks, including the drivers. I was surprised at how different it was from VT. I felt like I was in Bakersfield or something.

I also remember visiting upstate NY as a kid. Beautiful area.

 

365 days a year here in San Antonio TX. Check out any 'Texas Hill Country' video on YouTube and you'll see what the area has to offer as far as riding goes. I came here from Minneapolis MN and I'm still getting used to a couple things (like the litter and grafitti), but I love the area. Also, I seem to be meeting plenty of people that have moved here from California. In fact, I work with 2 people from San Diego and about 5 total from California (and that's in an office of about 60 people). But, you seem to be looking into the NE part of the country so nevermind...

I cannot imagine moving back to a climate where the bike is in storage for at least 4 months of the year. It's easy to figure out why my motorcycle insurance doubled in cost when I moved to the South....I get to ride it twice as much!!

 

You must have been in southern NH. If you were in the mountains on a weekend you were probably harassed by the MassHoles. NH is different from VT though. Southern NH is too developed now. Enough of the thread jacking.

In NH we get April to early Nov if you're brave.

 

Tell me about it, at the rate I'm going I'll do 16K miles this year.

 

It gets too hot here for me about mid-June. After the weather breaks in the fall (hopefully early September) we ride the rest of the winter through spring. Some days are too cold but we have gear and we go 45F to 95.

 

Orange County, California. We usually get less rain than Los Angeles. This year is a major drought. I don't think it's really rained for more than 10 days this season.

I used to commute 80 miles a day in the rain years ago...splitting lanes and sliding sideways off the Bott's Dots. But I quit doing that about 15 years ago. I don't like getting the bike dirty. Also in recent years I didn't like taking off for work at 6:30 AM when it's in the 40's (yeah I know, I became a *****).

Now that I'm retired I don't get out of bed until at least 6:30, so I could ride every day that it doesn't rain. And I probably will, even if just for a surf check.

 

Try coming to Canada and ride!! We start, for the most part, around the end of May and ride until about mid October.....even then it's not guaranteed by any means. During the winter it can get as cold as -50c

 

Kevin I grew up in Maine and I will tell you that the riding season may be from May to October but you will also have to deal with shitty frost damaged roads, lots of sand and gravel on the roads in the spring, wet leaves in the fall, and lots of rain storms. So out of the 6 months of riding time you may only get in 4.