Your input - and what we are doing next
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We are really keen to offer the best information to make your bike tours enjoyable. So far in developing MyBikeGuide each of our cycle touring guides, covering the Mosel Valley, Alsace, the Ile de Re, Lake Constance, the Yonne in Burgundy, Verona in the Veneto, Bordeaux, Champagne, the Midi, the Elbe, North Sea, Puglia, and Essex, has taken around 100 man hours so we would like to know where else we should plan and what details are wrong or missing.
Please let us know.
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January 25, 2013
Joel
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Joel, the Valley looks very nice and reasonably well supported by trains. It is also easy to access from Bergerac airport. We like to look for circuits that people can ride over 5 to 7 days (200 to 300 kms) and we would be interested in knowing where a good circuit would go. Any suggestions?
We have used a variety of bikes all over Europe area and we are not not fully convinced that expensive bikes are needed to have a great holiday. Yes, it is best if they don't break down and it is nice if they are not so heavy that you can't pull them over a fence or two but expensive bikes can become a liability (stolen, damaged, scratched), still if it works for you and your customers that is great.
If your rental facilty can reach our Bordeaux route then send us your website link and we can add it too our webpage.
Bilbo
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June 13, 2012
Bordeaux
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The route we like is shown on a map at Bordeaux Map though if you work your way through the pages at Bordeaux Guide you can get to understand the various options, distance etc. If the distances I show are too long it is very possible to shorten the journey as Bordeaux itself has a number of radiating bicycle paths and quiet roads.
I hope this helps, if not come back with detailed questions and I will see if I can suggest solutions.
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April 12, 2012
Bike Films
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We have added a new page called Bike Films to collect together links some of the more interesting bike clips and movies. We hope they are interesting, why not let us know or tell us about others we can add.
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April 11, 2012
Latest Guides
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In the last few weeks
we have published two new routes, one for a relatively flat bit of Switzerland and one along
the Canal du Midi in the south of France. We also thought we would
provide some useful planning maps for a few interesting areas
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November 13, 2011
Elbe river
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We enjoyed the Elbe river, the food and spas along its length. The odd massive downpour and a collapsing rear wheel made up the bad parts of the trip, while a surprise visit to Hanover was a good finish. We hope you enjoy the guide.
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September 3, 2011
Champagne and Essex
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I hope you have seen the new guides to Essex and Champagne. We felt that Champagne is seen, too often, as just the supplier of wine rather than a great place to visit.
Our choice of the Essex route was harder as there are more spectacular parts of the country however in terms of railway support and ease of access for non British visitors this is a very good area to ride.
What do you think?
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July 17, 2011
Page design changes
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Over
the next day or so we need to modify the structure of our website as
it is now too large to fit on! This may mean the occasional page
changing as you are using them and the possibility of disruption. We
hope this will not be too frustrating.
Bilbo
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July 12, 2011
North Sea bike path
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We've
just loaded our North Sea route, it covers a path from Rotterdam to
Zeebrugge crossing from Netherlands to Belgium. This route takes
advantage of an open jaw ferry route from Hull. We also show a
number of other open jaw ferry trips along the Channel and the North
sea.
The
bike paths are a revelation and shows what can happen when the bike
joins the core culture of a country.
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June 20, 2011
Cheers Bordeaux is here
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We have now completed the Bordeaux Guide with a few more extra links to camping
companies. Hope this helps and the weather holds for you now the
summer is here.
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June 13, 2011
Coming soon
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In the next few days we
aim to publish you our new Bordeaux Guide, this will be followed by
a North-sea route (Flanders and Zeebrugge) and then some mini-guides
on how to use open-jaw ferry trips to plan coastal bike routes in the
North of Europe.
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June 4, 2011
Dutch trip
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The MyBikeGuide team
have been on "researching" again by touring in Holland between Rotterdam and
Zeebrugge. It's one of the few areas in the country which is without
railway support and yet like everywhere else there are loads of bike
lanes, restaurants offering filling meals and accommodation with
special bike sheds. The Dutch are very bike friendly and generally
speak very good English. We hope to have some details on this type
of trip for you soon.
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May 25, 2011
Mini-Mobile
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Last week saw
MyBikeGuide in the hills north of Toulouse. Glorious sunshine, 27C
and lots of ridge roads swooping down to meandering rivers on a new
hybrid. We stayed at Château Dumas which offered far too much great
food.
We have visitors to the
website who use their mobiles rather than a PC, to keep their costs
down and speed up their downloads we have developed a mini-mobile
website. It has much less information but gives a healthy overview.
Tell us what you think.
Bilbo
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May 12, 2011
New Route2
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We've now loaded our
Central France bike ride based in the Yonne Department and centred on
the lovely city of Auxerre. More to the point it includes the
Chablis, St Bris, Irancy wine vinyards and some fine Burgundy canal
paths. Enjoy.
Bilbo
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May 10, 2011
Latest news
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Verona - Veneto is now live and our Central France tour will be live this week.
We
have spent a fair bit of time speeding up some of our pages to make
details easier to get to. You should find that only pages with the word
"map" in them will be relatively slow.
We are now looking at Bordeaux, the Lot or Champagne for the next tour. Any views?
Bilbo
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April 14, 2011
Coming up
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Our Verona bike guide
is almost finished and should be published early next week. It's
been great fun putting together as we have had to work with Italian
Tourist Information which can be a struggle, don't ever think you
know where the offices are let alone what the website are called.
Still almost there.
Despite lots of
interest in our Ecovia do Litoral articles I think we will do a
Chablis based bike route next as it is so pretty even though train
support will be limited.
Any thoughts?
Bilbo
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