"April Is A Weaver - It Weaves Some Summer With Some Winter" (a Polish saying)
Hey, but that's still the month of March? I basically could not stay at home and had known what I was getting into. I knew the weather forecast already in the week before. Temps just above 0 C (32 F); the puddles were frozen. Stiff frosty northerly wind of 25 km/h, often with stronger bursts. I wore my Winter Armor #2 (the #1 is reserved for frost and snow), rode out my Vado as that e-bike handles upwind better than the
Good Ole Mule thanks to its powerful mid-drive motor. Heading North, always having the outbound ride into the wind.
The plan was to encircle a half of the Kampinos National Park (KPN). Beware of the moose!
The outbound ride was terrible. Dreary weather, intermittent snowing (not very much; yet, heheh), hard wind to overcome. At least I was prepared with my clothing although ears were somewhat suffering from the cold blows. From time to time, glorious sunshine happened to appear. At such moments the wind used to slack a little and my morale was boosted. Not for long time though.
More on the ride in the picture captions, it's gonna be dramatic at times
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I covered the most of the 50+ miles in the Sport mode customised to 50% support because I needed a solid workout. I made the last 17 km in full Turbo mode because I was very tired and only needed to survive. Funny thing, the wind stopped blowing when I was coming back, no assistance of that power of Nature.
I need to say my Vado, or Turbo Vado as an e-bike model is perfect. Regardless of really adverse and varying conditions it ran noiselessly at constant speed, could handle massive side wind gusts with a snowfall well, the Electrak 2.0 tyres had excellent traction on any surface, disregarding dry or wet, smooth or damaged. Hard to believe I could safely and with full trust make 85 km under the weather I experienced on that trip.
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Light snowing on Hwy 579 before Leszno. I was riding into the wind and the weather was gloomy.
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The State Academy for The Circus Arts in Julinek. That school has a very long tradition. Notice a short moment at which the Sun appeared.
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The South-North Hwy 579 divides the KPN into two parts. The moose are dangerous there. The speed limit is 60 km/h but few drivers respect that. The road is the fastest connection of my place to the Warsaw Modlin Airport (WMI) operated by Ryanair. A large parking lot at my right hand side was closed as well as the best tourist entry to the KPN was blocked (see the white-red tape).
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Reptiles, deer/elk, cows. So many dangers on that borough road going through the KPN! I was especially scared of the cows, the murderous beasts! ![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
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The administrator of the village of Truskawka (literally: Strawberry) is a pigeon-fancier. I was wondering who the people living inside the KPN were and I guess they must be foresters. Note: Snowing again! "April Is A Weaver"....
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Sunshine again! Entering the region of Łomianki, which is probably one of the richest boroughs in Poland. Businesses everywhere. The road behind the trees is the S7 expressway (Warsaw - Gdańsk).
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The Winter hit back when I was riding through Kiełpin (where my brethren live). It was a heavy snowfall. I'm loving it! "April Is A Weaver"... Still in March?
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PhD Eng. Stefan went into a dustbin
(Parzniew, 5 km from home).
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Not bad, taking the circumstances into account.
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The usual bullshit of Endomondo. "Mostly sunny"! A joke or what?!