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I've done a few tours, and a few day trips, all planned ahead, all nicely laid out.
Perhaps it's laziness, perhaps i'm missing something. But when it comes to the crunch, i never stick to planned routes.
These days it's pretty easy to find advice, and routes set by others, but for example, this route from Paris to dieppe is laid out with markers and points to look out for enroute.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Dieppe-to-Paris-approaching-Paris-on-safe-smooth-forest-tracks
But unless you have a laptop/ gps or print each screen along the way, what is the most logical, easy, light, and ay of sticking to your route?
My current route for this summer's trip looks like this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Viale+Italia&daddr=46.206923,6.153717+to:A5+to:A202%2FVauxhall+Bridge+Rd&hl=en&geocode=FRz1oAIdOumVAA%3B%3BFYSs2wIdcNxOAA%3BFUqrEQMdBP79_w&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=11&via=1,2&dirflg=w&sll=46.151773,6.505966&sspn=0.646438,0.810928&ie=UTF8&ll=45.843151,6.967049&spn=20.803181,25.949707&t=p&z=6
but how do i make sure we stick to the route?
is it worth buying a GPS?- a load of large scale maps - which i guess you'd dispose of after each one?
what says you? what do you do?