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Originally Posted by seeker333
(Post 13776714)
BTW, the photo in post #1 was taken in Stalheim, Norway, long a popular tourist attraction even in 1898:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...im_Norway_.jpg Norway looks like a challenging location for bicycle touring, with all the up and down, and constant winding roads and water crossings. I have a friend who biked in Norway last summer and the landscapes were really beautiful. |
Originally Posted by seeker333
(Post 13776714)
BTW, the photo in post #1 was taken in Stalheim, Norway, long a popular tourist attraction even in 1898:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...im_Norway_.jpg Norway looks like a challenging location for bicycle touring, with all the up and down, and constant winding roads and water crossings. However the roads are very quiet, the surfaces are excellent. Norway has immense energy resources, natural gas, oil, hydro-electric power and timber-a-plenty and a very small population, so they can afford to keep their roads really well maintained. It does come at a cost, however. Everything is very expensive in Norway and it rains a lot, when it's not snowing. |
Originally Posted by BigAura
(Post 13775127)
Why hasn't anyone mentioned that they are not wearing helmets.
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Look at that road behind them,I can see going up but I'm not sure about the down part.Looks like 1" hard rubber tires and some kind of hand brakes on gravel.....Mr's Toads Wild Ride.......
Great pictures. |
http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/...emera005-1.jpg
From 'Cook's Tourists' Handbook Normandy and Brittany' 1898 edition. The British travel agents Cooks organised commercial cycle tours of France in the late 19th. Century. |
I once heard read that the term fad was short for "for a day". However most of the onloine sources don't seem to give that as the origen.
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