Sunday, July 23, 2006

Cycling in Mol

After Holland, Belgium must be the most bicycle-friendly place in the world. Not just the roads in the cities, but even the most obscure roads through the woods have cycling tracks. My colleagues told me that if I stayed in Belgium a full year and didn't do atleast one long trip on the bike, I deserve to rot in hell. So we decided to go to the sand-sculpture exhibition on bikes. These 9 kg bikes, with all their weight optimisations are great, but do they really have to have such uncomfortable saddles? That combined with deficient padding in the concerned areas ensured that I had to do the last bit of the journey without fully placing my butt on the seat. That apart, I'm feeling very satisfied. It was a fantastic route through woods and by some gorgeous lakes and canals.



Sand sculptures




3 comments:

Swathi Sambhani aka Chimera said...

wonderful sand sculptures but i wud have loved to have a luk at ur bicycle too.. (any fotos of it wud b appreciated)

the last wonderful trip i had on a bicycle was in Coorg

Anonymous said...

Awesome sand sculptures man. How did they make the staircase without stepping on it?

Deepak said...

Don't have photos of the bike :-(. But I'll surely be going on atleast one more trip. so next time...

jax: Yeah man, some serious effort. Especially if you realise there was rain forecast for the next couple of days!