For all the pedal pushers out there that love long distance cycling. There are no gear requirements and no 'minimum distances' here.
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The Landes is the flat forest region in the far southwest of France. Very easy riding and car traffic is sparse, even in summer. This is on the EuroVelo 3 (AKA the Pilgrim Route) just south of Langon, where the path follows a disaffected railway line for about 20 km. Absolutely ideal conditions for cycling.
Are you doing a significant part of the tour, or are you just out and about? And what bike is that?
The trail does look pleasant to ride.
It's an open-ended trip! So stand by for more if the places are photogenic enough. The bike is an electric fat-tyre Engwe. Which is obviously going to offend some cycling purists here, but in my defense I've done a ton of analog cycle tourism (including two trips on recumbents) and at this point I'm just looking for an easier life. Ironically, it's not actually that much easier. This model respects the EU regulations, so there's no throttle, you need to pedal. The motor is capped at 25 kmh and in practice doesn't help much except on inclines. Yesterday I did 80 km in about 5 hours and was still pretty tired.
Living the life. No worries - I'm looking at doing most of the EuroVelo 13 myself, and I'm way too old and my knee is way to messed up to not see e-bikes as the only way I'll still be able to make that trip.
Funny enough, I haven't seen much of the hate e-bikes get after moving to Europe. I attribute that to generally better bike infrastructure, reasonable regulations and generally less hateful propaganda.
This looks like a screenshot from some game