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To: shades who wrote (65931)	7/5/2005 7:39:23 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Here the winter is so cold and by the time Spring comes one gets out of the habit of riding. Then soon it gets hot and humid (need to be disciplined to get up early and get out and ride in the morning, but I'm not good at that). And it often rains in the summer just when you have time to ride. The ideal cycling climates are France and England and probably Oregon. New Zealand must be pretty good and parts of South East Australia. France and England have the high population density and road networks that just make them ideal. You are usually never that far from civilization if something goes wrong and there are plenty of options of quiet roads to ride on. My Raleigh is pretty light. 50 years ago people would have ridden the Tour de France on a bike like that almost. Of course it has features they didn't have - like clipless pedals (SPD) and 16 gears. And they would have had tubular tires (and still do) where it has wire ons (with Kevlar). So it is a hybrid between the classics (Reynolds 531 tubing) and modern innovations.