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It was like fifth-hand. The bike cost €70. I changed (or my neighbour did) the back tyre a year ago, hence the +€20, but there's something in the rim that wears the inner tyre down. For the brakes you have to change the wires and everything, so no point. And the light is broken as well.
So time for a new one. Another €70-100 bike again, I don't want to buy anything expensive as bike-theft is rampant here.
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3.5 years for €90 is a bargain! Was it second-hand? Probably not worth the repairs if the gears are broken. Though fixing brakes and changing the tyres would have been easy. Till last year, mine was a bit like this, then someone stole it. So I bought a new one. Makes me think that I haven't taken a recreational ride in a while. The odometer, installed last April, is still below the 1,000 km mark.
I bought my bicycle for $800 just over seven years ago. My odometer is at 23,200 miles, but I got the odometer before the bicycle, maybe 20,500 miles are on that bike.
Thanks! The ride is about 760 km (470 miles). The northern half of the ride is boring but southern half is quite enjoyable. It wasn't for fun tho, I was helping loading/unloading a van with pieces of furniture. Took pics when I was in the passenger seat.
I thought only Americans took long road trips?
Yikes. I thought the 260 miles was bad. Took me about 5hr40min. Wouldn't have been that been with stops and passengers. How long did it take with that traffic? Or did you take stops along the way? That traffic looks bad for out of an urban area, was that getting out of Paris or near some place full of tourists?
Couple pics from an evening bike ride. Distant convection:
Stationary shower:
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Some photos from past week or so.
Greenest it has been in a long time, never usually this green this time of year.
Nice! Was it far from Winnipeg (trail shots)? Never seen a wild turtle here.
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I thought only Americans took long road trips?
I live in a parallel universe where numerous Dutch vacationers drive 2,000 kilometers in a camper van to Spain in summer.
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Yikes. I thought the 260 miles was bad. Took me about 5hr40min. Wouldn't have been that been with stops and passengers.
Where did you go?
It took around 10h30 IIRC. The slow moving traffic was only on a 20 km-long stretch just before a highway interchange. Traffic was high because it was a midsummer Saturday, notorious for bad traffic on North-South roads in France. Most licence plates were from northern France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Getting out of Paris was a piece of cake at the time we did it. Google maps says the itinerary we took can be done in 8h and down to 6h40min using tolled roads (we shunpiked apart from the Millau viaduct toll). The return trip by train took 4h10.
Couple pics from an evening bike ride. Distant convection:
Not too far away, it was about an hour east of the city, but there is trails like that in the cedars about 10 km from the city too.
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I changed (or my neighbour did) the back tyre a year ago, hence the +€20, but there's something in the rim that wears the inner tyre down. For the brakes you have to change the wires and everything, so no point. And the light is broken as well.
So I bought a new one. Makes me think that I haven't taken a recreational ride in a while. The odometer, installed last April, is still below the 1,000 km mark.
