Okay, I know that I said I like road riding. In fact I LOVE road riding in Ontario!! I used to be soooo lucky, and didn’t even know it. When I lived in Cambridge, just outside f the city I would turn right or left at the end of my road and ride for HOURS. I could ride any number of routes to Milton, Elora, Fergus, Stratford, Paris, Woodstock, Milton, hours of country roads with only a few stop lights and NO exhaust.

I moved to Vancouver to improve my Canadian ranking. But what nobody told me is that the road riding is EXTREMELY limited. Read as: if you like chewing on exhaust fumes while you ride, riding in Vancouver is FUN! Man, I wish someone would’ve told me. If you don’t want to drive out of the city (which kind of defeats the purpose of road riding altogether, i.m.o.) you have about 3 main routes to choose from, Richmond/Ionna Beach, Deep Cove, Hwy1/Horseshoe Bay. THREE!! And all require some level of exhaust inhalation. Lovely!!!

Sooooo………here’s my warning to any of you who love to road ride, don’t move to Vancouver. Consequently, the true cross country mountain biking isn’t much better. Victoria Island, take a look there, you still get Ocean and Mountains. Guess I should’ve done my research!!