Remarkable Bicycle Rides: An amazing tour of the worlds most fascinating bike routes

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Remarkable Bicycle Rides includes a wide variety of cycling challenges from the exhilaration of high alpine trails to more gentler touring routes such as Hadrians Cycleway which crosses from Britains Solway Firth to the North Sea following the line of Roman monument Hadrians Wall. There are the classic mountain climbs beloved of followers of the Tour de France and the Giro dItalia such as the climb to Mont Ventoux in France and the Stelvio Pass in Italy. Still in Italy there is the mass participation of LEorica a bike tour in traditional costume on vintage bikes. For those wishing to push themselves to the very edge (literally) there is the Yungas Road in Bolivia whose alternative name is El Camino de la Muerte (Death Road). Long-distance trails such as the Great Divide (Canada/USA) and the Great North Trail (England/Scotland) can form an epic trip of a lifetime or be tackled in smaller sections. On more robust wheels there is the A-Line single track in Whistler Canada and The Whole Enchilada in Moab Utah. If you like your cycling on a flatter incline many routes follow old railway beds such as the Hiawatha and the Katy Trails in the USA Ptit Train Du Nord (Canada) or the Parenzana which crosses from Italy to Slovenia to Croatia plus many of the European routes follow great rivers. Also included in over 50 routes; Danube Cycle Path Ring of Kerry Iron Curtain Trail Vasco-Navarro Greenway Flanders Beer Route Carretera Austral (Chile) the San Juan Islands Norway Postal Boat the Loire Valley Passau to Vienna Munda Biddi Trail Shimanami Kaido (Japan) Route des Grands Crus (Burgundy) Nantes to Orleans Paris to Mont St.Michel Great North Trail Alpine Panorama Salzach Valley Otago Peninsular Route 10 Holland Garden Route (South Africa) and the Hebridean Way.