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No pictures though. Pff. But I guess blue sign with white bike and red circle with black bike on white are easy.
Loads of fast group rides don't use those parallel lanes because they really are slowing you down.
To get onto them often means slowing down for a very sharp bend, and sometimes it feels like you do twice the climbing than you would on the road. They often have faster tarmac because they are newer than the road, but they tend to have more crap on them also.
I use them, but not sure if I'd bother in a race, guess when you share the roads for 5000kms with idiots in cars you don't care about some additional german idiots.One picture works. So you go through the village at speed, village end means slow down, check over shoulder, go left across road, two sharp turns, pick up speed again.
Also I ride mostly Brandenburg, so while the rules and general layout are the same, what you find might be diferent.
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Cool. I'll try to remember that. But annoyed drivers mean they know where I am which is better than distracted drivers. I'm mostly worried about accidentally taking illegal roads and getting time penalties. I want a clean race like last year.