Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: bike

This is as far as I hiked on this trip, as far as Cajirna nad Vokem, a tea house that now has an entrance on the ex-rail line. I don't know if it predates the conversion of the line, but now it is well integrated with it.

This is a concrete staircase that I'm fairly sure is of new construction, that helps hikers and bikers on the old Linka 011 bike trail to climb further up Vitkov (or whatever mountain this is).

I think I had read somewhere that DB rented out bikes, but I had never actually found one and photographed one before. This one wasn't too far from the Karlsplatz.

As I said earlier, the heavy use of bicycles in Germany is really striking in comparison with the Czech Republic (and of course the United States), and many of the bikes that I saw in Munich were either customised or were factory painted or designed to look custom. This bike particularly caught my eye, but there were plenty of others.

Here's a better view of Regensburg Hauptbahnhof. Again note the bikes.

Regensburg is an old Romanl city dating to about 90 A.D. Most of what's left is medieval in nature, although not so much in the vicinity of the station (that building behind the station on the right looks Baroque). These historic buildings were better preserved than most German buildings in World War II partly because Allied commanders spared it on purpose for its historic value. To me as a modern American living in Europe, though, I was impressed by the extensive use of bicycles in Regensburg, as you can see in the racks on the platform.

This isn't a special subject, but I liked the composition. The bike and the electric trains are sort of a nice eco-theme as well.

Here's one of several shots that I took to commemorate the fact that I made it to Karlovo Namesti with my bike.

This was taken during a break on the July Cyklojizda, the short one rather than the long one, although in this case short still meant 4+ hours, with a few breaks fit into the schedule like this one. I came along this time, but I only stayed in it for maybe 3.5 hours, after we had ended up in Vysehrad and I was getting itchy about getting the metro in time to get my bike home (riding through Prague alone is much more dangerous than riding in a group like Cyklojizda, which is part of the political point they're trying to make).

Every month, usually the third Thursday of the month, an organization called Auto*Mat organises a mass bike ride called Cyklojizda. This is considered by many to be Prague's Critical Mass ride, although there are a number of differences from a conventional Critical Mass ride, most notably that it is organised more deliberately, and the relations between the riders and the police are invariably better, usually with the police providing some traffic control for the riders. Typically, the ride starts here, in Namesti Jiriho z Podebrad, but in the past it has also been started from other locations, most notably Staromestske Namesti.

I took this after I got back to Copenhagen, and I noticed the writing on this guy's bike trailer. :-) He was from Christiania. :-)

Bicycles are a major mode of transport in Copenhagen, and the city was recently voted the world's third most bike friendly city by Virgin Vacations. You can read a blog about it here in WIRED: blog.wired.com/cars/2007/11/where-are-the-m.html

Of course, the trams aren't the only way to get around Warsaw. There's also the Metro, and in addition, there are buses and taxis, some of them....bike taxis. I took this in the Royal Square by the castle.