>>2000262>Why March? Why not wait for nicer weather and some greenery?I bike tour in the nicer months of the year too. I'm a NEET and have a lot of time to spare. The experience and challenges of off-season touring are quite different and worthwhile. I appreciate not having to deal with mosquitoes when sleeping in outside.
March in Ukraine is dreadful objectively speaking but it fits the country quite well in my opinion.
>>2000279>Any particular lessons learned, shit to bring/not bring?Bring enough suffering tolerance for the roads.
Jokes aside, any lessons learned are directly related to cycling Ukraine. Don't sleep in open fields during war times, don't take pictures in border areas where people might see and call the cops on you. No new insight gained in terms of equipment. I tend to bring relatively little gear. I brought two spare tubes on this trip. Usually one is enough. In densily-populated Western Europe I don't bring any tools at all.
Ukraine combines low bike store density with poor public transport infrastructure for bicycles. I didn't get any flats in the end but it's better to be safe than sorry in that region of the world. Last year I went to Ukraine's Black Sea, crossing all of Moldova along the way and had two flats. I think there are only three cities with actual bicycle stores in all of Moldova - Chisinau, Balti and Tiraspol. The store in Tiraspol didn't even have tubes with Presta valves. Saw a lot of cheap chink stuff for sale.
