How many miles do you ride?

[shootingstar]

Plus, riding with a club gives you new routes to try. I never would have done some of the routes I do now without having been on group rides.

I am very lucky...my partner has been highly active for development of bike network routes in Toronto (where we used to live) and now here in Vancouver area ever since I've known him, so I have built up some knowledge of local bike routes in both cities, how to interconnect several routes, and if I can remember all the turns/safe shortcuts that avoid lousy intersections/interchanges, etc., to ride several different long routes over 100 kms. each, if desired, across each city.

He also occasionally scouts out potential areas for bike routes/future marked lanes, future connectors, etc....so I robotically cycle along behind, just trying to remember every twist and turn.

This is how I build up my knowledge to ride all sort of routes safely, solo when I do --many short and longer routes.