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What climates do you like to travel ???
For me, I love heading for sunshine, tropical beaches and huge open forests.... Thats why I travel.

Probably because its a great break from the cold, dull misery of the UK..

Many people seem to love riding into the freezing arctic circle.. Snow, ice and freezing winds.... hmmm not for me at the moment thanks lol..

What do you prefer ???
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I think it was Billy Connolly (perhaps quoting) who said "there is no such thing as bad weather only the wrong clothes".

I'm happy anywhere I'm free to just ride. I'll take an old Alpine pass on a starry night in January with fresh snow, or the variation in Arctic Tundra crossing a range between fjords over a ride down the Mallaga coast road or Glen Coe on the August bank holiday anytime.

There is also the challenge of getting places through weather conditions a lot of people will claim to be impossible. Riding in snow is really just a form of off road riding.

There are bad days on every run of course. Fog and a main road full of tourist coaches is hell be it Norway in March, Scotland in May or the Todra gorge in October. You can get "bad" weather at any latitude, I'll take an Northcape electrical storm over a Pre-Typhoon Hong Kong fugg anytime.

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Tropical - Hot, sunny & humid
Arctic - Cold, windy and icey
Temperate - No extremes of anything
Desert - Hot, dry & arid


Why "Tropical-Hot, Desert-Hot, Arctic-Cold"

How about N/W USA, Canada, UK, San Francisco in the summer.
Cool - Rain - Fog.
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Tropical - Hot, sunny & humid
Arctic - Cold, windy and icey
Temperate - No extremes of anything
Desert - Hot, dry & arid


Why "Tropical-Hot, Desert-Hot, Arctic-Cold"

How about N/W USA, Canada, UK, San Francisco in the summer.
Cool - Rain - Fog.
They're just vague sterotypes mate.. It's nothing too serious.

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Sunny, nice weather is nice, of course. But racing down an icey alley with your two wheeler with spikes on your tires - now that's outright FUN!
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I dare/challenge/buy a for anyone who says they like desert climates to come to Yuma between July and August.
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I dare/challenge/buy a for anyone who says they like desert climates to come to Yuma between July and August.
How cold would the be?

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Been there! Its grate 130f full gear sweating so much your boots are wet. Drink 3 to 4 gallons of water a day so hot its hard to eat. "sports" drinks are a life saver.

I like Temperate better.
Hate the snow to slick for me. Dont like the bugs in the tropics looking to bite me.

still it is the place and people that will make or brake a ride for me.
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Its all good: mostly...
I don't think there is a climate I don't like travelling in except for rain. I tolerate it when it happens and kit up accordingly but I am not about to pack and rush to India for the monsoon...

But given a choice I prefer temperate and even cold over hot. Warm I can manage, but I don't seem to cope in really hot weather, where as if it's chilly I'm pretty comfortable...

It's been said before, the kit you wear makes a heck of a difference: argentina and Chile were fine on the whol but when we crossed Neuquen in blazing sunshine at the beginning of December it was like a furnace in all our heavy clobber that had kept us comfy in the South and earlier in the Spring!
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How cold would the be?

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You wouldn't want it kept outside!! ...unless you're into that!!
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Been there! Its grate 130f full gear sweating so much your boots are wet. Drink 3 to 4 gallons of water a day so hot its hard to eat. "sports" drinks are a life saver.
Sounds like my commute to work in the summer!!
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Did a few years in Havasu, went for a ride 2 years ago to see some people that still live there. Forgot gust what hot was, 100f is not bad 130 think the road starts to melt. It may be that the desert is good for the soul but not so grate to ride in.
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22c, sunny, a slight tailwind, some high broken cloud.
Not so keen on 45c in Chad or anything with a minus sign in front of it.
Where in the world is it 22c all the time??? But without speed cameras.
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Good poll!

I had enough wet growing up in Sunderland, I've had my share of rain! I'm now firmly a desert guy, that's not to say I don't like other climatic zones (after all I now live in the mountains), but I love the solitude that you only find in the desert.



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How about N/W USA, Canada, UK, San Francisco in the summer.
Cool - Rain - Fog.
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