First off: I have GOT to start taking more pictures! I did a whole bunch of cycling and saw a whole bunch of cyclists and took exactly ZERO pictures! Not good.
What was good though was to see so many people cycling around for pleasure and transportation NOT in the city.The region's MUPS are very long and connect residential, recreational and down town areas to each other. They also provide a great way to avoid trying to have to find a place to park in the crowded, narrow down-town village streets. The only thing that is "bad" about these bike trails is that, like all of their kind, they run along abandoned railroad beds. This offers quite a mixed bag of sight-seeing opportunities that range from breath-taking to kind of grungy. Unlike many other bike paths that I have been on, they offer many, many dining, drinking and snacking opportunities. It is entirely possible to consume far more calories than are burned riding on these trails!
Once in town the streets are often designated as Bike Routs and, even when they are not so designated, are full of cyclist of all ages. The motorists are quite tolerant of this activity and wait behind the poky cyclists with no horn tooting or near-missing. Every place of interest has a bike rack or two outside it and the attractions are full of people in cycling clothing or helmets. Less one take it that I found only recreational and transportational cyclists on the cape, I have to tell you that the back roads and main streets are littered with Roadies! They tend to ride solo or in pairs, not like around here, so no one really minds them sharing the winding country roads at all. It's like bike-utopia.
What was good though was to see so many people cycling around for pleasure and transportation NOT in the city.The region's MUPS are very long and connect residential, recreational and down town areas to each other. They also provide a great way to avoid trying to have to find a place to park in the crowded, narrow down-town village streets. The only thing that is "bad" about these bike trails is that, like all of their kind, they run along abandoned railroad beds. This offers quite a mixed bag of sight-seeing opportunities that range from breath-taking to kind of grungy. Unlike many other bike paths that I have been on, they offer many, many dining, drinking and snacking opportunities. It is entirely possible to consume far more calories than are burned riding on these trails!
Once in town the streets are often designated as Bike Routs and, even when they are not so designated, are full of cyclist of all ages. The motorists are quite tolerant of this activity and wait behind the poky cyclists with no horn tooting or near-missing. Every place of interest has a bike rack or two outside it and the attractions are full of people in cycling clothing or helmets. Less one take it that I found only recreational and transportational cyclists on the cape, I have to tell you that the back roads and main streets are littered with Roadies! They tend to ride solo or in pairs, not like around here, so no one really minds them sharing the winding country roads at all. It's like bike-utopia.
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