Welcome to KR. I'm from your neck of the woods.

Welcome to KR.

Welcome to the site and welcome back to riding.

Welcome to kr, Hayward boy here, but spent many a Friday and Saturday nights cruising cv Blvd, back when you could.

Welcome to KR, I visit castro valley sometimes to visit some family, nice little place.

Welcome to KR from SoCal!

definitely got comfortable riding a lot faster then i thought lol.. any1 here in the bay that knows good places to ride please do let me know.. im actually from Chicago area so not very familiar with this bay area..

Short cut - head towards the mountains along the peninsula - see a road going through them? It'll be good.

More specifically - 84, 92, 9, 17, 1, 35, old San Jose-soquel rd, page mill rd, 152, 156. Laurels grade, the road down to pinnacles national park south of Hollister, roads going into uvas canyon, road up to the observatory atop mt Hamilton.
Those are all mostly South Bay/peninsula roads. North of us there's 29 north of Calistoga, 20, 128, 162, 99 north of Sacramento.
East there's 120, 108, 49, 4, 88, and 50.

I'm sure there's tons of smaller roads too, I usually stick to ones I've driven before. And I'm sure I'm missing a lot. I'm not terribly familiar with the east bay, there's probably some nice riding in the hills around you that I Kay don't know about. The roads I mentioned - some are great for scenery and are twisty enough to not get boring, some might be pretty but are definitely great for more spirited riding. Look them over on google maps or something similar, you'll be able to tell which are which pretty easily.

There's also sears point raceway (~Sonoma) and Laguna Seca (~Watsonville) if you're feeling more track oriented. We're lucky here in CA - we've got lots of options and can ride year round. Enjoy it!