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cobbles are pretty gnarly on fixed...vienna definitely has way too many of them, even on the "bike routes". kind of teeth-rattling.
i think i just need to come back to europe sometime to bike poland, belgium, netherlands, etc.; i only have time to travel on the actual weekends this trip, and it's probably going to get cold soon?
isn't czech republic supposed to have good beer, too?
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yeah, i found that, too. on one website it said "biking in romania and hungary is not recommended for western cyclists"; i'm not sure if that's because of road conditions or dangerous people you might encounter, or what...but it probably holds true for a girl traveling alone as well. i might try and do trips more along the lines of taking a train to somewhere, biking part of one of the EuroVelo routes for a while, and then taking a train back. less adventurous, maybe, but it might be more practical. and yr right, the danube trail, either to germany or to budapest, looks pretty great.
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winston bike path along entire length of Danube, through Hungary and Romania.... will be flat as a pancake.
oh! yeah, i've taken it only a bit outside of vienna so far. i didn't even think how far it went...is there any big deal about border crossing?
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hey, so i'm not actually from / never have been in london, so apologies for sneaking into yr discussions, but i'm an american (from chicago, most recently), studying in vienna for the next three months, and i'm trying to figure out what sorts of small bike trips i can manage while i'm over here. it's not likely i'll be back to europe soon. i mostly have class monday thru friday, so 2-3 days is the most i can spend traveling at a time. plus i'm on my fixed gear that i brought from chicago, so unless i rent a bike, long touring trips are reeeeally not practical.
but i was wondering, has anyone done much traveling around, especially eastern europe, with a bike? what cities / countryside areas are nice for riding, especially fixed gear? (no mountains, that is...) and are there good cheap bus/train services to check out - for example, i'm told that biking croatia is really nice, but i'd have to get down there somehow, ride around for a day or two, and come back to vienna, all in a long weekend.
okay. any advice you have would be really awesome. i haven't had much luck at bike shops around here, since they just shake their heads at the fixed gear thing.
thanks!
yeah! ride the danube if you get a chance, on fixed or whatever. i thought i was going to take two days, so i took a train (for about an hour) north from vienna to this town called Melk, which is famous for a big beautiful abbey there, and walked around a bit. i left Melk after 11, and got to Krems, where I was planning on staying the night, by 1:00. so i wandered around there and the town across the river for about an hour, and then just kept riding...i could've made it to vienna before it got dark if i hadn't gotten lost on side trails for a couple hours...but i ended up paying less than 2 euro for a 20 minute train ride back into the city, finally. probably rode 60-70 miles (whatever that means in km), through the most beautiful countryside i've ever seen. big castles up on cliffs above you, green mountains, and the path had some hills, but was mostly long stretches through tiny towns and right through the middle of vineyards and orchards. friendly bikers everywhere. amazing.
between Melk and Krems is definitely the best part; from there to vienna it gets kind of boring.
but seriously, awesome, go do it.