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  1. France Diary Summer 2026 #11: Path

    A couple of my usual cycling loops around here are closed off at the moment, so I’m tending to use the same one a lot of the time. My shortest route has a road closure because of some major engineering works (bridge?) and the St. Antoine forest is closed because of the risk of fire.

    So I innovated on my loop to the lake and back, because there’s a 10km section I find a bit boring. Instead of coming straight up the road on the false flat, I now follow the cycle path that runs all the way from the lake to Giromagny. There’s then a more interesting (and hillier!) route home.

    What’s lovely about this is that the piste cyclable doesn’t run parallel to a main road but runs alongside a disused train line, cuts across fields and through woods and actually manages to find a route flatter than the road you might have had to use otherwise. It’s a real pleasure to ride along, and while it doesn’t get Copenhagen levels of cycle traffic, it is clearly very popular with locals—especially the Olds.

    One of the absolute mad things about France in recent years has been the enormous increase in the number of older people (men and women) you see on bikes. Sometimes this is because of the ebike boom, but just as often, you see them on drop-handlebar analogue road bikes.

    And the full extent of this cycle path is actually 15km, all the way from Belfort to Giromagny (and vice versa, obvs). On the map above, the green sections are dedicated, smooth tarmac, cycle paths, and the orange bits are shared—but only with residential traffic on quiet side/back roads. There is one tiny section (500 metres or so) which is a concrete path next to a main road, but it is properly segregated with a high kerb that prevents the fuckers from parking on it, which you know they would otherwise. The bit I cycled this morning was from the lakes near Sermamagny up to Giromagny. From there, I joined the main road and rode up to Auxelles-Haut (top left) and then down to Auxelles-Bas, and back up our hill to home. An almost exactly 30km loop, which is perfect.

    The recent extension now takes the path right into Giromagny’s main marketplace and carpark, and the footbridge across the river has been widened so you can cross it to where the shops and banks are. Here’s the mayor at the opening ceremony:

    It’s a thing to love about France. In spite of the lack of national success in recent decades, the Tour de France means that cycling is the national sport, and it is for everyone, in the same way that it is in Copenhagen.

    #biking #cycleTouring #Cycling #France #Travel
  2. France Diary Summer 2026 #11: Path

    A couple of my usual cycling loops around here are closed off at the moment, so I’m tending to use the same one a lot of the time. My shortest route has a road closure because of some major engineering works (bridge?) and the St. Antoine forest is closed because of the risk of fire.

    So I innovated on my loop to the lake and back, because there’s a 10km section I find a bit boring. Instead of coming straight up the road on the false flat, I now follow the cycle path that runs all the way from the lake to Giromagny. There’s then a more interesting (and hillier!) route home.

    What’s lovely about this is that the piste cyclable doesn’t run parallel to a main road but runs alongside a disused train line, cuts across fields and through woods and actually manages to find a route flatter than the road you might have had to use otherwise. It’s a real pleasure to ride along, and while it doesn’t get Copenhagen levels of cycle traffic, it is clearly very popular with locals—especially the Olds.

    One of the absolute mad things about France in recent years has been the enormous increase in the number of older people (men and women) you see on bikes. Sometimes this is because of the ebike boom, but just as often, you see them on drop-handlebar analogue road bikes.

    And the full extent of this cycle path is actually 15km, all the way from Belfort to Giromagny (and vice versa, obvs). On the map above, the green sections are dedicated, smooth tarmac, cycle paths, and the orange bits are shared—but only with residential traffic on quiet side/back roads. There is one tiny section (500 metres or so) which is a concrete path next to a main road, but it is properly segregated with a high kerb that prevents the fuckers from parking on it, which you know they would otherwise. The bit I cycled this morning was from the lakes near Sermamagny up to Giromagny. From there, I joined the main road and rode up to Auxelles-Haut (top left) and then down to Auxelles-Bas, and back up our hill to home. An almost exactly 30km loop, which is perfect.

    The recent extension now takes the path right into Giromagny’s main marketplace and carpark, and the footbridge across the river has been widened so you can cross it to where the shops and banks are. Here’s the mayor at the opening ceremony:

    It’s a thing to love about France. In spite of the lack of national success in recent decades, the Tour de France means that cycling is the national sport, and it is for everyone, in the same way that it is in Copenhagen.

    #biking #cycleTouring #Cycling #France #Travel
  3. France Diary Summer 2026 #11: Path

    A couple of my usual cycling loops around here are closed off at the moment, so I’m tending to use the same one a lot of the time. My shortest route has a road closure because of some major engineering works (bridge?) and the St. Antoine forest is closed because of the risk of fire.

    So I innovated on my loop to the lake and back, because there’s a 10km section I find a bit boring. Instead of coming straight up the road on the false flat, I now follow the cycle path that runs all the way from the lake to Giromagny. There’s then a more interesting (and hillier!) route home.

    What’s lovely about this is that the piste cyclable doesn’t run parallel to a main road but runs alongside a disused train line, cuts across fields and through woods and actually manages to find a route flatter than the road you might have had to use otherwise. It’s a real pleasure to ride along, and while it doesn’t get Copenhagen levels of cycle traffic, it is clearly very popular with locals—especially the Olds.

    One of the absolute mad things about France in recent years has been the enormous increase in the number of older people (men and women) you see on bikes. Sometimes this is because of the ebike boom, but just as often, you see them on drop-handlebar analogue road bikes.

    And the full extent of this cycle path is actually 15km, all the way from Belfort to Giromagny (and vice versa, obvs). On the map above, the green sections are dedicated, smooth tarmac, cycle paths, and the orange bits are shared—but only with residential traffic on quiet side/back roads. There is one tiny section (500 metres or so) which is a concrete path next to a main road, but it is properly segregated with a high kerb that prevents the fuckers from parking on it, which you know they would otherwise. The bit I cycled this morning was from the lakes near Sermamagny up to Giromagny. From there, I joined the main road and rode up to Auxelles-Haut (top left) and then down to Auxelles-Bas, and back up our hill to home. An almost exactly 30km loop, which is perfect.

    The recent extension now takes the path right into Giromagny’s main marketplace and carpark, and the footbridge across the river has been widened so you can cross it to where the shops and banks are. Here’s the mayor at the opening ceremony:

    It’s a thing to love about France. In spite of the lack of national success in recent decades, the Tour de France means that cycling is the national sport, and it is for everyone, in the same way that it is in Copenhagen.

    #biking #cycleTouring #Cycling #France #Travel
  4. @CiaraNi We planned to go to Skagen on our summer cycle tour earlier in the summer.

    But we had to shorten the trip at the end due to approaching westerly gales. Thus we did not make it to Skagen.

    So thanks for the picture!

    Maybe we can make it there next summer.

    #cycletouring

  5. @CiaraNi We planned to go to Skagen on our summer cycle tour earlier in the summer.

    But we had to shorten the trip at the end due to approaching westerly gales. Thus we did not make it to Skagen.

    So thanks for the picture!

    Maybe we can make it there next summer.

    #cycletouring

  6. @CiaraNi We planned to go to Skagen on our summer cycle tour earlier in the summer.

    But we had to shorten the trip at the end due to approaching westerly gales. Thus we did not make it to Skagen.

    So thanks for the picture!

    Maybe we can make it there next summer.

    #cycletouring

  7. @CiaraNi We planned to go to Skagen on our summer cycle tour earlier in the summer.

    But we had to shorten the trip at the end due to approaching westerly gales. Thus we did not make it to Skagen.

    So thanks for the picture!

    Maybe we can make it there next summer.

    #cycletouring

  8. @CiaraNi We planned to go to Skagen on our summer cycle tour earlier in the summer.

    But we had to shorten the trip at the end due to approaching westerly gales. Thus we did not make it to Skagen.

    So thanks for the picture!

    Maybe we can make it there next summer.

    #cycletouring

  9. zork.net/amsterdam/ ← It took a decade, but I finally updated the #LondonToAmsterdamRide Web Site. It's a bit late for the 2026 ride (which starts next week), although we may have a spot or two available if someone really wants to join

    Many thanks to Missing CSS for the ultimate 60kB CSS framework that resets everything to the way I probably wanted it anyway.

    (of course then I just chucked on 2.5MB of font files, buuuut...)

    #BikeTooter #London #Amsterdam #CycleTouring

  10. zork.net/amsterdam/ ← It took a decade, but I finally updated the #LondonToAmsterdamRide Web Site. It's a bit late for the 2026 ride (which starts next week), although we may have a spot or two available if someone really wants to join

    Many thanks to Missing CSS for the ultimate 60kB CSS framework that resets everything to the way I probably wanted it anyway.

    (of course then I just chucked on 2.5MB of font files, buuuut...)

    #BikeTooter #London #Amsterdam #CycleTouring

  11. zork.net/amsterdam/ ← It took a decade, but I finally updated the #LondonToAmsterdamRide Web Site. It's a bit late for the 2026 ride (which starts next week), although we may have a spot or two available if someone really wants to join

    Many thanks to Missing CSS for the ultimate 60kB CSS framework that resets everything to the way I probably wanted it anyway.

    (of course then I just chucked on 2.5MB of font files, buuuut...)

    #BikeTooter #London #Amsterdam #CycleTouring

  12. zork.net/amsterdam/ ← It took a decade, but I finally updated the #LondonToAmsterdamRide Web Site. It's a bit late for the 2026 ride (which starts next week), although we may have a spot or two available if someone really wants to join

    Many thanks to Missing CSS for the ultimate 60kB CSS framework that resets everything to the way I probably wanted it anyway.

    (of course then I just chucked on 2.5MB of font files, buuuut...)

    #BikeTooter #London #Amsterdam #CycleTouring

  13. 1/2 In the ferry queue coming home from a cycle tour in Denmark I chatted to a bloke from Belgium just heading to Norway with his family for two week cycle tour.

    He had a nice new Pinion 12 speed bike with a belt drive, large tyres and so on. He purchased it from a company in the US for USD 2000 (plus shipping and duties).

    That was less than our Rohloff VSF bikes cost in 2008.

    He asked the question "How can they do that for this price?"...

    #cycletouring #norge #danmark #cyclecamping

  14. 1/2 In the ferry queue coming home from a cycle tour in Denmark I chatted to a bloke from Belgium just heading to Norway with his family for two week cycle tour.

    He had a nice new Pinion 12 speed bike with a belt drive, large tyres and so on. He purchased it from a company in the US for USD 2000 (plus shipping and duties).

    That was less than our Rohloff VSF bikes cost in 2008.

    He asked the question "How can they do that for this price?"...

    #cycletouring #norge #danmark #cyclecamping

  15. 1/2 In the ferry queue coming home from a cycle tour in Denmark I chatted to a bloke from Belgium just heading to Norway with his family for two week cycle tour.

    He had a nice new Pinion 12 speed bike with a belt drive, large tyres and so on. He purchased it from a company in the US for USD 2000 (plus shipping and duties).

    That was less than our Rohloff VSF bikes cost in 2008.

    He asked the question "How can they do that for this price?"...

    #cycletouring #norge #danmark #cyclecamping

  16. 1/2 In the ferry queue coming home from a cycle tour in Denmark I chatted to a bloke from Belgium just heading to Norway with his family for two week cycle tour.

    He had a nice new Pinion 12 speed bike with a belt drive, large tyres and so on. He purchased it from a company in the US for USD 2000 (plus shipping and duties).

    That was less than our Rohloff VSF bikes cost in 2008.

    He asked the question "How can they do that for this price?"...

    #cycletouring #norge #danmark #cyclecamping

  17. Solo Bikepacking Japan (Video) – BIKEPACKING.com

    By Paul Fisson Guest Contributor @paulfisson “Solo Bikepacking Japan” is a 40-minute video that follows creator Paul Fisson on a one-month, 3,000-kilometer ride across Japan, travers…
    #Japan #JP #JapanNews #adventurecycling #BicycleTouring #bikepacking #biketouring #biketours #cycletouring #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #stealthcamping #TouringBikes #travel #worldtravel
    alojapan.com/1508948/solo-bike

  18. alojapan.com/1508948/solo-bike Solo Bikepacking Japan (Video) – BIKEPACKING.com #AdventureCycling #BicycleTouring #BikePacking #BikeTouring #BikeTours #bikepacking #CycleTouring #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #StealthCamping #TouringBikes #travel #WorldTravel By Paul Fisson Guest Contributor @paulfisson “Solo Bikepacking Japan” is a 40-minute video that follows creator Paul Fisson on a one-month, 3,000-kilometer ride across Japan, traversing the coun

  19. Does anyone know if Vy Bus4You services (Sweeden) allow bagged/folded Bromptons? They seem to not allow bikes but I can't find any word on folded ones.

    If anyone has any EU travel resources on folding bikes and train / bus travel I'd greatly appreciate it!

    #brompton #sweeden #vy #cycletouring #bikepacking

  20. Does anyone know if Vy Bus4You services (Sweeden) allow bagged/folded Bromptons? They seem to not allow bikes but I can't find any word on folded ones.

    If anyone has any EU travel resources on folding bikes and train / bus travel I'd greatly appreciate it!

    #brompton #sweeden #vy #cycletouring #bikepacking