Quote Originally Posted by Audio-A
Emily, my BF and I are looking at some houses on dirt roads - but we're thinking that we need to rule them out because we can't ride our bikes. I never really thought about it, but is it insane to rule out ideal houses because we want to ride out from our front door? Does anyone else have any ideas on dirt roads and long driveways?
I've never had a problem riding my road bike on dirt or gravel. You have to go pretty slow and watch out for really bad obstacles/huge rocks, but otherwise no sweat. We lived on a gravel road for two years and my in-laws live at the back of a long dirt road with a long dirt driveway...hasn't yet stopped my DH from taking daily rides when we visit them, and even I have taken a little spin or two while there.