Gonna be a billion degrees out today, so I'm going to try biking to the ocean and back. Backup plan: Ypres (yes, that one) and back.pic.twitter.com/kkg2fm8VWd
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Gonna be a billion degrees out today, so I'm going to try biking to the ocean and back. Backup plan: Ypres (yes, that one) and back.pic.twitter.com/kkg2fm8VWd
Made it to Ypres after 2.5 hrs. In Flanders Fields....pic.twitter.com/FCzstElsoX
After Ypres there is some pretty good bike lanes. And I'm enjoying a nice tailwind, which I absolutely will not come to regret later.pic.twitter.com/g0JYSwhQge
Ugh. The nice surface ran out pretty quickly. There is still a bike lane, but the surface is pretty rough.
Made it to the beach. No time to play, though. Need to eat and then head back before it gets wickedly hot.pic.twitter.com/qf7BdV5tfn
I don't understand Belgian food. This meal was listed under a category called "snacks". Also, Belgium restaurants are not optimized for hot weather bike touring - each drink (even water) is tiny, fancy, and expensive. I need a US restaurant where I can drink 2L of soda for $2.pic.twitter.com/PYvbd5kO7C
Update: I regret the headwind situation.
Ooof. Made it back home, but the last 30 miles were not pretty (in our bike touring parlance, we would call it "corpse dragging"). Probably too far and too hot with too little practice. But the job is done and now I need to put some water back into my system and crash hard.
PS: I snagged this picture of Rue de la Liberte, the main North-south Avenue through the center of Lille. 2 lanes each direction, but one lane is just for bikes and buses (so, basically, just for bikes). This is real bike infrastructure.pic.twitter.com/H7UIVlMurq
Bike lanes are normal in Europe. When I lived in Berlin during the 1960's, many major roads had bike lanes separated from the vehicle lanes by berms, just as sidewalks are.
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