Rome help
 

Hello

I moved in Rome for 11 months, I live right in the center (piazza bologna) and I am looking for routes to do road cycling safely and going quite fast.

It's not really possible in the city itself so I guess I have to take a train or something ? Or maybe i can do 10mins in the city and get to safer roads ?

thakns for the help

I don't know Rome personally, but I have used Strava heat map as a way to find routes. See http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13/1...93/orange/bike

When in Rome do like the Romans......

Yeah, what [MENTION=3283]caloso[/MENTION] said, look at Strava, Garmin Connect, RidewithGPS and other sites to see where other are going nearby. They all have search functions for activities and routes.

stravas in rome is 90% of the time ppl commuting

"When in Rome do like the Romans...... " huh... you have no idea about what city you're talking about, keep yours "....." for yourself please, there is no way i can ride fast and safe in the city center

So you assume that people in Rome who commute choose unsafe routes? What about that other 10% of rides? There might be something there.

For certain the OP doesn't like my injection of jocularity into his thread. Or maybe I'm the one misunderstanding.

I've often used ride maps to help me pick a route. I don't pick based on the number of people that ride that route. I pick it because it matches the type of ride I want to with the elevation gain/loss and yes, how secure I might feel riding that route.

I guess the post should have stated that no one is to respond unless they have been to Rome and know of a route.

Or maybe the OP should lighten up unless he expects someone to show up at his door and take him for a really nice ride. In the dark days before ride sites existed my guide was a simple paper map. It still is a lot of the time. A good friend of mine says that GPS makes you stupid. Blindly following a GPS can lead you into difficult situations with no idea how to get around them. I ran into that last year with my friend. We followed the GPS map route and came upon a construction site. We had to hike through it in our road cycling shoes and had to traverse a busy off ramp off a freeway to get back to our route. Our cycling club was going to do this ride the next day. we were able to advise our touring director how to detour around this obstruction. The lesson here is that you have to know where you are and how to get to where you want to go. I have done numerous rides where we have had to detour around road construction. Studying maps is the key to being able to go for a ride. No ride will ever be perfect, if you start one expecting that there will be no problems you will always be disappointed.

have you ever lived in a Big city ?? people would commute, yeah they have a lot of red lights on the way, they usually go at 20km/h if not less. Yeah sure they use cycling lanes with people walking on it and stuff. I never said it wasn't secure, I just said it's impossible to go fast and to be secure.

i'm talking about real routes, where you can do a 2/3-hour ride going at 35km/h without having to break every minute because someone might go on my way or because of a red light.

there is a huge difference between commuting and doing real cycling


there are 2.7 millions ppl in Rome, so i don't think it was that idiotic to try to reach a Roman here ?

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.. [MENTION=10528]Nicodemus[/MENTION] has lived in Rome for an extended period (I think maybe he's still there), and I know he cycled at one time, but not certain he was courageous enough to do it in Rome. You could try a PM to him.

I lived in Italy for about a year, but it was so long ago (1970) as to be unreliable with regard to today's conditions.

I don't recall seeing many bicyclists on the roads back then either in Rome or Naples, or anyplace in between for that matter.

In any big city you'd be hard pressed to find a route without traffic and stop lights.

1. This site is largely American, so little chance of Italians being on here.
2. Italians are not great with other languages, so even less chance of Italians being on here.
3. Commuting *is* real cycling, it's just a different kind of cycling :p
4. Sorry, can't help you, I don't do your kind of thing, I'm an urban jungle kind of guy. All I could recommend are the best intersections for a good adrenaline rush.

The only thing that comes to mind for me is the coast from Ostia to Anzio, that's a nice ride I've done a few times. Or cycle around Bracciano. Best bet is to check out various routes in the country (Umbria, Tuscany) that you can get to easily by train.

Good luck, bud.