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Grand
Duchy of
Luxembourg:
Grand
Cycling
MIKE
WELLS
Serial
Guidebook
Author
DEEP IN
THE FOREST
– OF ARDEN
Products & Tech • The Good Old Days • and much more
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Welcome to 7DC8
Well, we have had a bit of a hiatus at Seven Day Cyclist. In response to
feedback we have decided to make the magazine available as a free
download direct from www.sevendaycyclist.co.uk via a link in the Get The
Mag menu. This works for you and works for us. All back issues will be
available as free downloads, too. We will refund subscribers who had open
subscriptions in June (as explained on the Welcome page of the website.
Now, on with the cycling...
As the rain rattles on the window pane it is easy to forget that this
should be the height of the cycling season. Daylight just past its zenith,
the scent of blossom filling the country lanes, and what is filling my
inbox? Warnings that we face a dire summer followed by the offer of a
holiday by a pool in the Mediterranean sunshine, that’s what.
Personally, I can’t think of many things more dull than broiling myself by
the poolside. No, there are too many places to explore by bike. It struck me
that whilst I have cycled in some atrocious weather, a realistic assessment
shows that it rarely rains on my commute and that most of my touring
days have been at least clement. Apart from the obvious British obsession,
bad weather often poses a challenge which one can attempt to dine out
on or raise the stakes in conversations with cycling friends.
I have already had many fine days in the saddle this year. I have in
most years, sometimes in the most unexpected places. Britain is a
wonderful country for cycling, but there is a fascination about “abroad”.
Luxembourg, for example, is not on everyone’s cycling itinerary. Yet, I
had a grand few days awheel there.
You can read about it in this edition, along with the first part of a
supposed camping tour of Hebridean islands, a short tour of the Forest
of Arden and other tours around and about. Truth is that whatever the
weather and wherever we are, if we have a bike we have the freedom to
go where we wish under our own steam. As the Headteacher of the first
school I worked in said, “You really get about for a chap on a bike.” Think
that really sums up cycle tourists.
Enjoy the sunshine and the rain and the breeze in your hair (even with
your helmet on)
Steve
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CONTRIBUTORS
Roger Suddaby
Jill Phillip
Paul Wagner
Mark Jacobson
PRODUCT TESTS AND
TECHNICAL
Michael Stenning
EDITOR
Stephen Dyster
DESIGN
Colin Halliday
CONTACTS
See details on
www.sevendaycyclist.co .uk
Contents
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Grand Duchy - Grand Cycling
Products
In the 3rd Age - Part One
There’s More to Cycling
City and Country
The Brompton Goes Wild
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62
The Emperors New Clothes
Meet Mike Wells
Step Up: Eveyday Spuds
The Good Old Days
A Morning in the Forest
Rear Rack
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GRAND
DUCHY
TOUR
Old and new on the
Kirchberg
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GRAND
DUCHY
TOUR
GrandDuchy:
GrandCycling
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Two Dutchmen and a cycling advocate went cycling in
Luxembourg;
Stephen Dyster
tagged along.
K, you could cycle across the Grand
Duchy in less than half a day if you
liked, may be a bit longer if you are
going from north to south or vice-
versa. Get your head down and you
could be in Belgium, France or Germany and
not far off the Netherlands in no time at all.
Ignore the deep, green valleys with castles
glimpsed amongst the forested hills; miss out
the extremely cycle-friendly UNESCO World
Heritage Site that is the City of Luxembourg;
forget that you could cycle along the Moselle
and taste fine Luxembourgish wines. Take your
time and you will find a country that holds on to
its history and traditions but is as cosmopolitan
as they come. Even better, the transport and
tourism arms of government have been busy
developing a network of high quality cycle
routes, much of which is traffic free …. ninety-five
percent of which has either asphalt or concrete
surface …. and, if you want to take a train with
your bike within the Grand Duchy it’ll cost you
the princely sum of two or four Euros depending
on whether you buy an all day ticket or not, with
your bike going free in a bike specific coach (on
most trains).
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