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I love riding the bike, and most of my riding was made in distance, meaning, I went from one place to the other, sometimes camping overnight, a great experience. I have friends that prefer off-road, meaning, they go to a specific place to make downhill or to jump with the bike, something entirely different. What do you prefer or do?

I really like biking routes so I guess that would be considered off road. My family and I used to go to such routes every now and then and even if we traveled very long and was so tiring it was one of the best experiences I have ever had. I love that there are down hills that will help me rest along the way after pedaling for so long.

Well, honestly I have never try for long distance on bike. In past I used to go on it within city only. But I have not used it since many years. And biking on off road is sounds really interesting. I have never tried it but I have seen it on TV many times. I would love to try out, but I guess we need proper practice before directly going for it. I don't want to break my bones for sure. lol

I recall the first time I went for a relatively long ride with my bike, I took the tent with me for a 70km ride, and it was a memorable one. Camping was awesome, a beautiful sunset, I thought that I could be there forever, but the next day it was raining, so the dream collapsed haha.

I've tried some off-road too, but nothing too much, even if once I got hit with the bike in the face after falling.

Biking routes are great and always yield great or/and funny stories . I like it a lot but unfortunately I don't have that much time to practice them (I definitely wanted to have more time to spare ).

They have a very special meaning in my life (it's something quite inspiring ). For personal reasons they're very important to me.

So many good memories come to my mind right now.

to7update wrote:I recall the first time I went for a relatively long ride with my bike, I took the tent with me for a 70km ride, and it was a memorable one. Camping was awesome, a beautiful sunset, I thought that I could be there forever, but the next day it was raining, so the dream collapsed haha.

I've tried some off-road too, but nothing too much, even if once I got hit with the bike in the face after falling.

O jesus, riding 70km with camping gear is exhausting! @to7update you're doing great.

I would love to try off-road. But I then need to find suitable route, gears, and possibly some companies to go along for safety... not easy to make it.

Thanks @woodstock, but this was back when I was 17 years old lol, now I am 40 and I wouldn't dare to do it! More, at that time my tent was super heavy, it was not like this light ones that weight nothing, so it was too much. I've done a bigger ride with camping gear a few months later, and finally the body broke down and I returned by train.

When I was younger I used to go mountain biking rather than road cycling, but that was usually part of our camping trips rather than just to push ourselves like a lot of people do. There used to be a group of about 7 or 8 of us and we'd drive to a rural area with all the camping gear and bikes, then park up and then ride a few kilometres into the middle of nowhere then set-up camp there.

As I've got older (I'm 39 now) them days are behind me, and as others have said, riding a bike and especially over rough terrain is something for the young, and these days while I do still go cycling, I do it more to keep fit more than anything and it usually involves a summers day and a pint of cold beer at the end of it!

I ride bike seldomly nowadays the fact I do not go too far kilometers with it. Let me say my most covered range is around 15 to 25 kilometers. Somehow this is not activity I like doing often these days as adult. During teenage days it was a great fun such that in a week I do go biking at least three times. Whenever there was a bike in sight then it was time to go biking again.

I used to join short distance rides when I was young. But it was only for fun and not really serious. Some of my friends are veteran riders that they can ride as far as 100 kilometers. But I haven’t tried that because I’m not really good in cycling. Besides, my bike is the ordinary bike for strolling around town. But I would love to bike in off-roads like hillssides. I had been to one province here where the hills are like manicured lawns. And then I saw some bikers there, I was really envious.