AchtungDrempels

@AchtungDrempels@slrpnk.net

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AchtungDrempels OP ,

I remember it to be more bumpy than pointy, too pointy and i won't do it.

It is actually incredible though what bumpy terrain these air sprung sleeping pads are able to iron out.

AchtungDrempels OP ,

That picture was exactly in the middle of a three month trip. I was actually on the way to take a plane again because i couldn't take the heat anymore and didn't want to keep going further south. Took a plane to northern Norway from Croatia and cycled back home from there.

AchtungDrempels OP ,

Oh yeah, it was amazing, beautiful. In the beginning the weather was also great ;) I went from Tromsø mostly along the panoramic atlantic route, Senja, Lofoten, further south went more inland. But Norway is also huge and i was kind of happy when i entered Denmark for a change.

Where are you at in Norway, looking at your username probably not Bergen :)

Can a flight be ok to do for "holidays"?

I like travelling by bike, but i am not the biggest fan of doing roundtrips, i much prefer moving further and further away. So on longer trips i will end up way far from home, and since travelling by train across Europe, can be a real ordeal (especially with a bike), i sometimes take a plane back home. I guess busses would be an...

AchtungDrempels OP ,

That take would certainly sooth my conciousness, but aren't all bookable flights "already happening"? Unless nobody would book it? TBF i book my flights back last minute, because i usually cycle with loose plans and don't even necessarily know beforehand where i will be going home from, so those flights would absolutely happen no matter if i booked it i guess.

AchtungDrempels OP ,

I agree with the everyday life behaviour being the most impactful.

Renting is not an option, certainly not an escooter, haha. I mean i can disassemmble my bike to take it on most trains, but it is still a big hassle to lug it around, together with my other baggage, changing trains etc, and still train connections can be far from optimal

AchtungDrempels OP ,
  • If there is a decent option for public transit, i will certainly use it, but that is sadly not always the case, not for international train travel at least. Like, going from Greece back home to Germany is a nightmare with trains, especially with a bike, unless you want to make train travel a big part of your holidays, which i don't. Northern italy is "a breeze", so is Switzerland, Austria, would always try to take a train from there.
  • yeah that's what i try to do i guess. It's just sooo much easier (and cheaper and obviously shorter) with a plane sometimes.
  • Loops and circular is not that fun for me, i really prefer getting ever further away.

I was thinking people here would bang me over the head a little more for taking a flight :)

AchtungDrempels OP ,

Well i guess to me it seemed like it warranted a flight. I also don't always take a flight back home. What is far enough to warrant a flight? It is very much about the journey, a destination is nice to have though, as in having some kind of goal, and a place from where i am able to make it home.

Right now i am thinking about two options, but both involve a flight again:

  • take a plane to southern Spain or Portugal and end up home, either by bike or somewhere close enough to go by train
  • take a train to Austria or Italy then cycle to Greece or Turkey then back home by plane

Of course both options could be seen as unnecessary decadence.

Taking a bike on a plane is quite easy, i think. And it is also cheaper than a train, like half of it (of course all depends on the travel). Buses... yeah. That is an option i kind of want to ignore.

edit: I took 6 flights since 2019, 4 were one way, one was a return flight.

AchtungDrempels ,

I mean, i guess, but there are aluminium, carbon and titanium ebikes too.

I like that ebikes get people out of their cars, and they also get a whole different demographic riding, which in turn - at least i have the hope - will lead to way broader parts of society wanting better infra.

AchtungDrempels ,

I guess you don't consider !bicycle_touring fit for the sidebar then.

I was surprised for the community not even being federated on the slrpnk instance, i thought that would have been just the right user base.

Would you be opposed if some content from over there would also be crossposted to here?

AchtungDrempels ,

I don't think there are any other bicycle touring / bikepacking communities on other instances. Also it was created by a user, not "by them". I am a moderator of that community (but i didn't create it), i have a lemmy.world account too. I ended up on world because they accepted people when many instances didn't and i didn't want to sign up to an instance that may be run on somebody's raspberrypi and would be turned off in a week or something. It was hard to tell what was what, being new to lemmy.

Personally i would be down, moving the community to another instance, but i am not the creator of it. I think i will propose a move in the future to see what the people think, but i also won't be mad if people don't want to move, i am personally more interested in getting niche communities to take off on the fediverse in general, and lemmy.world is part of that.

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