Your favourite riding season?

[mujambee]

Now that here in the northern hemisphere we are all out riding our bikes, I read all those threads about your winter coming and feel curious. What is people's favourite season to ride.

I know many people (myself included) ride all year round. This is not about what season do you ride but about when do you like it better.

I've divided spring and autumn in two, because I see them as just transitional states from winter to summer and back. So early spring could roughly translate to "that time when winter is less winter but summer is not here yet" and so on.


Mine is late spring. Long days with lots of sunny hours. Summer is to hot here to really enjoy your ride in the central hours of the day.

[mattian]

In the more milder months, I am commuting to work in the mornings with dozens of bikers!!!! now, that its becoming a little chilli I have noticed fewer and fewer of us on the roads and, in the middle of winter, Its extremely rare! to see another biker on the road commuting to work in the morning.
I think we all need to HTFU ......... just a little.:whistle:

[slofox]

Where's the "all of the above" option?

[mujambee]

Where's the "all of the above" option?

"All of the above" can not be a favourite. A favourite is one, maybe to; but not all.



In the more milder months, I am commuting to work in the mornings with dozens of bikers!!!! now, that its becoming a little chilli I have noticed fewer and fewer of us on the roads and, in the middle of winter, Its extremely rare! to see another biker on the road commuting to work in the morning.
I think we all need to HTFU ......... just a little.

You should come here. Last winter, 7:00, snowing, had to dig for my bike out of work. Only two of us got the bikes, all of the rest stayed there for days.

[Str8 Jacket]

"All of the above" can not be a favourite. A favourite is one, maybe to; but not all.

Unless you're a "real biker" ;)

[kittytamer]

SUMMER, why would it be anything else?
But having said that I commute all year round on the bike. I'd rather get a bit cold and wet occasionally than sit in traffic!

[martybabe]

Definitely spring and autumn, winters too cold for my old bones and the state of the roads here in high summer is appalling (at least in my region).

I do ride all year round but I'm going to plump for late spring as my fave because a lot of roads will have been repaired:whistle: ready for the summer melt down and the weather is warm enough to be pleasant but not so hot you have to run for shade in your leathers as soon as you stop.

Late Spring FTW.

[been_there]

Late spring is the go for me...Not too cold and not too hot.
At least you can keep the leathers on

[Swoop]

I'd rather get a bit cold and wet occasionally than sit in traffic!
Damn right! Winter is one of the best seasons to be riding.

Where's the "all of the above" option?
You can tick all of the boxes...

[buellbabe]

Well that was hard to vote on cos I like Spring,Autumn AND Winter...
Summer is just too damn hot! not that the heat stops me LOL.

Love the days where there isn't a cloud in the sky yet there is still a slight chill in the air...like yesterday...was out on the bike all day and didn't get back home til well after dark. It was a bit nippy on the ride home but I just put my overtrou on and that took care of most of the chill.

This morning though??? Friggin single figure temp at 6am when I was riding into work...brrrrrrr ...maybe this year I might get heated grips...yeah right, I think about it every winter but never bother... LOL

[Burtha]

I'm the same as you BB. At the moment Nelson is just spot on, cool breeze, warm sun, clear skies - fantastic.

[Hitcher]

Riding "season"? Don't be a wanker.

[Mom]

I live in the winterless north and we dont actually have any clearly defined seasons to speak of, we can get all of them in one day sometimes. Year round for me.

[Tubbsy]

Riding "season"? Don't be a wanker.

He he he....love it.

[CookMySock]

Where's the "all of the above" option?Agreed. I had to think long and hard about it (unusual for me.) I ride anywhere, anytime. I was out in the rain for three hours on saturday - It was mint.

Hrm, by a hair it would have to be autumn. Less crap on the road. Dry roads.

Steve

[scuzeme]

You cant beat a summers day along the coast i reckon,

[SPman]

Spring and Autumn - summers just too f*cking hot!

[bogan]

ill ride anytime it aint too windy, or too rainy. But in preference spring and autumn, summer is good as well, but get a bit too hot evertime i stop, or go through a 50k zone.

[TLDV8]

Spring and Autumn - summers just too f*cking hot!

Softy :laugh:

I miss Spring and Autumn,the dry season has arrived so the humidity has dropped and getting a nice breeze off the desert now.
Still every day of the year is over 30C.

[lankyman]

I think you could have figured this one out without running a pole....

[mujambee]

I think you could have figured this one out without running a pole....

Not exactly. I'm no kiwi so I don't know how's the weather and peoples reaction to it.

If I was to predict results, I'd use my own experience, so it would ve massive response in the late spring with some peak at early autumn. Summer won't be the highest (35~40ºC summers here, and riding areas well over 1000m high, so sun hits real hard).

[Hitcher]

I think you could have figured this one out without running a pole....

Seeing as you brought it up, Mr Smartypants, that should be poll.

[Laxi]

last week i stopped at the summit on the takas for a smoke, I spent the next 15 minutes in the mist trying to do up my helmet with numb fingers, ill ride all year but my favorite roads are all wet and slippery already so the time I can have the most fun is definatly summer, hot dry sticky roads