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Maybe my best and most beautiful slovakian biketour was finished in the last day before arriving at Budapest in 1998 because of a fault in manufacture in the tyre.

Crossing the Carpathians by bike 1999

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:58:20

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towards Aggtelek. On the way there we had to stop for a while because of a heavy shower. Cycling towards Aggtelek sometimes I tried to push the pedals with standing from the saddle, because I knew that in the slovakian side there would be a steep ascent that would make me stand out from the saddle. Biking with standing out from the saddle with a pack is totally different than the same without a heavy pack on the bike: In the second case I can make the bicycle move from one side to the other, while in the first case it’s me who have to move above it from left to right and back. We set up our tents after cycling 20kms in Slovakia. After we went through the hard climbs we found a place on the hillside only one kilometer before Plesivec. We ate our supper next to our tents while we could be looking at the stars on the sky.

3rd day, Plesivec - Dedinky: : We went on cycling towards Roznava in heatwave. Although both of the guys were in the group who also climbed the panoramic, but busy ascent of Dobsina in 1993, in our first tour; this year, in 1999 we chose to cycle in a calm and nice valley and to climb the 909m high Sulova pass. In the first half of the climb I was talking with Zoli, then we splitted apart and were pushing the pedals alone at our own pace. We enjoyed the smell of the fir trees and flowers and to drink the water of a spring. WE arrived at the world of the slovakian forests. WE had supper at the shore of the Lake Dedinky. The weather was cold, so nobody was swimming in the lake. We spent the night at the edge of a fir tree forest in the next valley, in our traditional place, under the trees.

4th day, Dedinky - Nova Lesná: We woke up for a sunny, clear day. In the morning the air was cold so we had to put on some clothes. It was good to cycle between romantic rocks, fir tree forests and to take a kilometer long lay-by into a canyon. We knew it well. I had been cycling for 7-9 years, but I was nearly ...