Before saddling your favorite two-wheeled horse and set off on the road, take care of the route. You can rush in the Arctic, for example, on the Kola Peninsula, many wonderful, scenic routes. In addition, it is not necessary to skate on marked cycling routes. You can simply choose a more or less "populated" area and go where you want to go. It is only desirable in this case to have a gps-navigator, a compass, the largest map of the terrain( ideally a hundred meter, but the scale will also go down 1: 500, well, at worst - a kilometer, they can be precisely found in fishing and tourist, and alsoin bookstores).
Good routes for cycling trips are literally all over Russia. In the mountains - in the Urals and in the Khibiny Mountains on the Kola - routes for experts, the newcomers will certainly like Central Russia and the South - from Rostov to the Black Sea coast. If the route is selected south - do not forget about sunscreen so that your head is not baked.
In general, even if the routes of Russia and Europe recognized by cyclists are still inaccessible to you - you can go on a bike tour with an overnight stay in the nearest forest. And better - to where the lake or river. If the sea is near - a fairy tale in general. We equip ourselves, we carry out those inspections of the bicycle - and forward.
What to take with you?
It is better to go to a bike trip at least 4 people. Why four? Very simple. Having broken camp in a nice place, you probably want to wander around. It's not worth to leave the camp unattended, and leaving one person on duty is cruel, he will be bored. And so broke up into pairs and take turns to walk.
You have to take with yourself a repair kit for tires, a pump and other repair pribludy for bicycles. Whether it is not enough that? Broken glass, a nail in a bridge over a stream, a sharp stone, a bough under the wheels. .. To carry a vehicle on its own is not an enjoyable entertainment.
If you plan a trip with an overnight stay - you need a tent, it's like it goes without saying. Canvas cloth of Soviet manufacture you hardly попрете with itself - you are tortured to pass it, besides it huge. In any sports or tourist shop today there are tents that are compacted so that they easily fit into a medium-sized backpack, and there will still be a place for provisions.
By the way about provisions - canned food in such events is rare. And to maintain a cheerful mood on the road, take more nuts. Peanuts among nuts - the cheapest and at the same time the most nutritious. In order to stop feeling nagging in the stomach and brutal hunger, 100 grams of the product is enough. Kilometers per 10 on rough terrain should suffice. For dinner, canned food will come down at the parking lot, the fodder( mushroom berries), if you take a bowler, you can cook soup, porridge, and even bilberry compote. However, take a bowler in any case - hot food is needed in nature, you also go back. And in the open air, oh, how you want something to eat. In short, there is little to eat in the forest. If you go to a pond and there is fish - it's a sin not to catch a fish on your ear. A hiking ear is just a smart thing. Even if you forget the salt, you can be nudged from the heart.
If you are not sure that there will be "edible" creeks along the way and on the spot - store mineral water. Better carbonated - you get drunk faster. And with water shortage, this is important.
Security rules
Here's another thing - think about your own security. Find out which animals live where you are going. No one wants to run into wild dogs, bears or wolves. And they live in the forest, by the way. Take with you a repeller - an electric shocker for self-defense and it's good to have an ultrasonic repeller of all living creatures from the parking lot. He thrust it into the tent - and the beast skirted just in case. The range of these devices, depending on the modification - up to 700 meters.
However, places for bike trips are still better to choose more or less lively, where there are settlements, hunting or fishing huts nearby, where mushroom pickers hang out and just resting. Do not go to the remote places. And in the swamps do not climb - you will not drown, but a gnat and gadfly can devour. Antikomarinye means also worth taking. Mosquitoes like fresh tourist meat, especially in the bushes near the water.
At the parking lot behave decently, you are not at home. Spread a bonfire on the already available fireplace, and if it is not - do it. It is enough to choose a platform, to protect it with stones, if there is sand or earth, you can also fall asleep around the stones, so that the fire inadvertently did not go for a walk in the forest. And when you are going to leave - burn the garbage, especially tin cans to burn. And the lid cans better "drown" inside, so that the muzzle of curious little animals after your departure is not affected. Ideally, of course, take your own good with you and throw it out in a civilized way - at the dump. But it, alas, not always it is possible, whatever one turn. And yes - you do not need to bury the tins, it's better to leave it on the fireplace, if it comes to that. Fire, of course, how to put out.
And in general - take care of nature, treat it with respect. Then the memories of the march will be wonderful, and the conscience does not torture. Successful bike tours!
Trekking through the mountains along the dales by bike - the adventure is very pleasant and fascinating. But only in the event that you are lucky not to run into freelance situations. And it must be able to get together as it should. Well, that's when we're going to work - we do not forget the wallet, driver's license and keys for the house? In the cycle it is necessary to gather even more carefully.
Route selection
