The Crofted Crest
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"If your bike or bike-trailer is wider than 0.75 metres you can ride on the road."
That's probably to protect cyclists.
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"If your bike or bike-trailer is wider than 0.75 metres you can ride on the road."
That's probably to protect cyclists.
Mine is (at least the last few years).
Interesting though, some years back I was touring and cycling 2 wheel DF upright and camping and in Lelystad after arriving, setting up tent, etc. needed supermarket and permitted roads/cycle lanes were a big detour and I was exhausted so decided it wasn't far on road (not permitted) so took the road and ... nearly every car passing hooted and they all gave me plenty of space, not a single close pass, no abuse. Hooting was really a polite "you shouldn't be here" - I was totally in the wrong. But same situation in UK and I would expect punishment passes, shouts, even drivers stopping for ...
Even though I was being irresponsible and in the wrong (no excuse) I was impressed with how polite and considerate dutch drivers remained. "Assumed Liability"?
Ian
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Christ, if you go to Lelystad you deserve to be hooted at loud and strong. Get on the dyke as quickly as possible and over to Hoorn.
Been through Lelystad quite a few times and done the dyke twice (other times out through Almere). Talking to dutch people about Lelystad vs Almere and several said "When we built Almere we learnt from the mistakes at Lelystaad. Campsite in city good like an island of tranquility last time decided to try campsite to south on edge of outskirts which was OK.
1st time across dyke because the northern one closed and I wanted to do one for the experience. 2nd time was coming from Groningen/Friesland and wanted to get to northern end of LF-Waterline. Northern dyke still closed (?) and current cycle that lets me chose cycle path or road also means I have to book the bike bus several days in advance. Interesting to have done it but rather boring.
Ian
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The Houtribdijk from Lelystad to Enkhuizen is far more interesting than the Afsluitdijk. To avoid the Afsluitdijk you can always take the boat from Stavoren to Enkhuizen.
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It may have changed, since Brexit, but, as far as I know, e-bike rules were harmonised in EU (including UK) and still are harmonised.
I was thinking about that last time (to get to north end of LF-Waterline but the sailing timings were not great then so ended up doing the dyke instead (though stayed in campsite southern outskirts of Lelystad and spent an extra day poping down to Almere to gte more gas at Bever there.
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briantrumpet
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As this road is at 1000m ASL, I had to have a look. And yes, the van had (luckily) been stopped about 20m lower by the trees on the very steep slope. I suspect that the driver had an unplanned rapid colon evacuation. Crash barriers are for wusses, obvs.
It would have been a long way down, though would have saved going around a lot of hairpins.
It would have been a long way down, though would have saved going around a lot of hairpins.
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