Great dual sport riding around here. Very, very dusty in the summer though, in a lot of places anyway.
I just spent some of my van budget on a 2002 DRZ400S.... oops.
I've had motorcyles since i was 8 years old, pretty much continuously. And more than one for most of the last several years. Sold them all 2 years ago to buy my westy. Pretty excited to have one again. I pick it up tomorrow.
Great XC mtn bike riding here too. Great DH riding in Hood River (post canyon) or near Dallas (Black Rock). We have one little hill here with a couple DH trails, but mostly all XC in this area. If you're ever in the area, let me know, happy to fill you in or show you around. Spare room too for that matter.
Great restaurants, breweries (8 and counting in our town of 80,000 people) and music too.
And skiing, Bachelor isn't amazing, but decent backcountry skiing too. And lots of good lakes and backpacking in the summer. Pretty world class fishing too I'm told, but i wouldn't know, don't have the patience for it.
Um, have i ever mentioned that i love Bend? Of course, you're not exactly from Kansas either, not sure how we compare to Bham, but i'd love to get up there sometime and see. I know our big mountains are much fewer and further between than the north cascades. Sometimes that's a good thing though.