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"Australia 'world's worst place for cyclists', says Danish rider who's circled the globe "
Per Lou Holtman:
We have a lot af those narrow roads: Often used by farmers with big tractors towing even wider machines. You have to be very 'humble'as a cyclist. In Germany, the area around Limburg is cris-crossed with "roads" like that. You can go all day and never ride on a real road with high-speed traffic. And there are always parallel real roads so nobody drives a car on them unless it's for extremely local use. IMHO they make it cyclist's dream. -- Pete Cresswell |
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"Australia 'world's worst place for cyclists', says Danish riderwho's circled the globe "
Am 12.12.2014 15:25, schrieb (PeteCresswell):
Per Lou Holtman: We have a lot af those narrow roads: Often used by farmers with big tractors towing even wider machines. You have to be very 'humble'as a cyclist. In Germany, the area around Limburg is cris-crossed with "roads" like that. You can go all day and never ride on a real road with high-speed traffic. And there are always parallel real roads so nobody drives a car on them unless it's for extremely local use. IMHO they make it cyclist's dream. Most of the shouthern German states are criss-crossed with farm roads like that, usually motorized non-farming traffic is banned. The problems are 1) Typically, the roads are laid out in a grid with 90 degree bends where you have to slow down to 15 mph 2) Most of the time, you need to cross all 'real roads' at inconvenient places (exchanging the danger of being hit from behind by the danger of crossing major roads without support) 3) Each community decides separately which farm roads have tarmac or concrete and which are dirt roads so you need good local knowledge to find a meaningful route 4) with some roads going along the valley, the others at right angle take the steepest route possible across the hills (sometimes in combination with 3, the route along the valley bottom suddenly turning into a mud track). I happen to have a perfect track on my route to work, bypassing two small towns by only crossing one major road; until 5 years ago this route was interrupted by a 500m mud stretch. On leasure cycle trips with the family I plan ahead to ensure a decent route, on 'random' leasure trips alone I prefer to stick to real roads most of the time. |
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"Australia 'world's worst place for cyclists', says Danish rider who's circled the globe "
Rolf Mantel wrote:
Am 12.12.2014 15:25, schrieb (PeteCresswell): Per Lou Holtman: We have a lot af those narrow roads: Often used by farmers with big tractors towing even wider machines. You have to be very 'humble'as a cyclist. In Germany, the area around Limburg is cris-crossed with "roads" like that. You can go all day and never ride on a real road with high-speed traffic. And there are always parallel real roads so nobody drives a car on them unless it's for extremely local use. IMHO they make it cyclist's dream. Most of the shouthern German states are criss-crossed with farm roads like that, usually motorized non-farming traffic is banned. The problems are 1) Typically, the roads are laid out in a grid with 90 degree bends where you have to slow down to 15 mph 2) Most of the time, you need to cross all 'real roads' at inconvenient places (exchanging the danger of being hit from behind by the danger of crossing major roads without support) 3) Each community decides separately which farm roads have tarmac or concrete and which are dirt roads so you need good local knowledge to find a meaningful route 4) with some roads going along the valley, the others at right angle take the steepest route possible across the hills (sometimes in combination with 3, the route along the valley bottom suddenly turning into a mud track). I happen to have a perfect track on my route to work, bypassing two small towns by only crossing one major road; until 5 years ago this route was interrupted by a 500m mud stretch. On leasure cycle trips with the family I plan ahead to ensure a decent route, on 'random' leasure trips alone I prefer to stick to real roads most of the time. I often ride on these small roads in Germany. Besides that this part of Germany has only minor hills and no mountains I can confirm what you are saying. The small roads in The Netherlands, only a couple of kilometers to the west have much better and consitant pavement. That is why a lot of our German neighbours come here for leisure trips. -- Lou |
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