>>1322526>because the point of travel is to meet new people and experience new things.This is /out/, not /trv/. People travel for a different reasons. I'd wager meeting new people isn't exactly the most important thing for /out/ist who do bike trips. It certainly isn't for me.
And protip: If you manage 4000km instead of 3000km within the same time frame, you actually get to see MORE stuff.
>If biking is the primary task why tour at all instead of going on club rides or even riding rollers? If maximizing your daily mileage so you can get home as fast as possible is the priority, why bike instead of driving (or why even leave home at all)?Have you ever been on a bicycle tour? It's about the sense achievement of covering vast distances without a motorized vehicle, in a self-sustained way, by the power of your own two feet. I'm not sure if you're trolling or dense at this point.
The question makes a lot more sense if we turn it around: If you want to do mostly city sightseeing and meet new people, what's the point of doing it on a bicycle? Just get on a plane, use public transport and sleep in party hostels.
>>1322137>Saw your threadwot
I didn't make a thread.
>I assume you have done long trips before.Yeah.
>How many hours a day did you spend on your bike on average?Hard to say. In general I almost never went to sleep before 10pm and always tried getting up early in the morning, although that didn't always work lol. In Italy and the Alps I probably did 11-12 hours of raw cycling/walking each day on average, not including time for rests, sightseeing, eating, buying food, looking for a place to sleep etc. In the Balkans I could afford to be more easy-going thanks to the great mileage I managed in Italy.
