Bicycling 30Km
Yet again a very nice and rather hot summer day here in Denmark. I decided to try to alter my 26Km route and make it a bit longer by looking at maps (on the internet where else ? - I use www.map24.dk). I managed to find a little detour without having to pass towns that I thought could have traffic lights or other annoying obstacles.
And I was right, my detour was really good - going through very nice nature and passing nice fields etc. It was a bit hilly too but that’s what I like. Only downside was that most of the road was rather narrow and there was quite a lot of curves so it’s not that fast but in some way it makes it fun too. The total distance ended with 30.6 Km (19 miles).
Well all in all this new route was great and I will for sure use it again. I was not pushing to get a good time, especially on the detour as I have never been on those roads before, but at the end with about 8 Km left I started to push a little - guess you know me…. I ended up with a great average speed of 30.5 Km/h (almost 19 miles/h).
June 13th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Hi, Peter: My (American) family and I are coming to Denmark for a few weeks in July. We are thinking about biking from Kobenhavn over to Jylland, then north to the tip, then taking a ferry across to Sweden to Goteborg. We will be camping with our tent every night. Are there any especially wonderful places to cycle? I am bringing my recumbent bike, and one of my sons, with a broken ankle, will be riding a Vespa. Everyone else will have road bikes. Mange tak!
john
June 15th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Hi John
To start with your question, I would have to say it all depends on what you and your family like to see. I like to ride the smaller roads out on the country site and just enjoy the fields and farm animals on grass, especially now with all the cubs.
But I have some practical comments to your response:
Biking from Copenhagen to Jutland you need to either take a ferry from Zealand to Jutland or get on a train over the bridge from Zealand to Funen as you can’t go by bicycle over it - it’s a expressway & train bridge only. Once there were buses taking cyclists over but I don’t think they are running anymore. There are no problem riding a bicycle from Funen to Jutland as one of the two bridge allow cyclists.
About camping in Denmark, I think the only place you’re allowed to put up a tent is on camping sites so you need to find out where those are on your route. I think it’s more easy in Sweden as I think you can just put a tent up in many woods etc. and for free.
One last thing. I don’t know how old your son on the Vespa is but I think you should look into if it’s legal for him to ride it here in Denmark and in Sweden as well. I don’t know if it’s a problem but it’s better to check out before !
I wish you all a very nice trip here in Scandinavia !!!
Peter