2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

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Not only the Californians know how to have fun :)

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I could not stop laughing when Tommy yanked the Gun :) Tommy Gun, got it? :D
 
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Following up on yesterday's post on the Zargonian away team I ran into...

Have to admit, it was nice to hear the team leader say how much liked my bike. But now I'm worried.

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Like I'm gonna tell the cops and insurance company that aliens stole my bike?
No... but you can tell the lovely Nurse Ratched all about it when you get... there...

 
KPN with Tommy. Vado Repair (Rear Tyre and Brake).

I should have worn merino long johns for the ride; it was a cold and windy day! I started my ride to Jacek at 9:02 and arrived there at 10:36. My brother first took a great care to vulcanise a patch inside my punctured Rhombus Pro tyre, and he also used a filler for the hole itself. Eventually, he discovered my Vado rear brake was installed wrongly (a mystery how that could have happened!) and fixed that, too. Meanwhile, Tommy joined us, riding fast from South Warsaw (I was impressed with his performance!)

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I was genuinely surprised to see my own initials on Jacek's tracksuit top until I realised I was not the only "S." in the family :)

Then I took Tommy for an easy ride in Kampinos National Park (KPN).

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At the former Atomic Warfare Command for Warsaw Pact, backup site. The site was abandoned in 1980s as the satellites made the concept obsolete. Now, the underground structures are the home for bats.

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The post-glacial nature of the KPN makes it formed by overgrown sand dunes interlaced with marshes. Only several years ago, there was a desert at the site. Now, the greenery is bravely occupying the sands.

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By 1945, the German speaking Hauländer community was a serious minority along the Vistula. Post WW2, only Germans who had intermarried with Poles were allowed to stay. (A grand grandmother of one of our family members rests here).

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We were riding a rail trail. Here, naïve art by a grocery store. The sculptures have been created by some elderly man who felt being an artist :)

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Tommy for the first time in the Inn by the Trail, a weekend restaurant in Palmiry.

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Zhur, nourishing soup full of white sausage and hard boiled egg.

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Serving as many as ten pierogi is an unusual thing in Poland nowadays. Usually, it is only five or six of them!

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It is how the Inn looks like from the outside.

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To avoid riding unpleasant cobblestone, I made a detour by the remnants of the pre-WW2 Central Armament Depot. Unfortunately, we had to ride in deep sand, where my friend crashed once.

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You wouldn't believe it! I tripped my own legs while walking my e-bike! :D We could not stop laughing!

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An experienced fat-biker at Biker Pub. Of course, no motor. The bike was imported from the United States!

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I was left with a little battery charge upon arriving home!

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Ride Map. It was 75 km for the day.
 
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Following up on yesterday's post on the Zargonian away team I ran into...

Have to admit, it was nice to hear the team leader say how much liked my bike. But now I'm worried.

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Like I'm gonna tell the cops and insurance company that aliens stole my bike?
And you thought that rash from those bike shorts was bad, remember that dude has been practicing on dinosaurs.
 
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