My girlfriend and I, are considering to do a route approximately like this blue route.
But I’m am in a little doubt, if it’s possible to do in 3 weeks without biking the whole day all 21 days.
Its our first bike tour and the route is around 800km.
by Falcone_e_Borsellino
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Nope, it looks like it’s to Marseille.
I’m not experienced with biking, but i travel a lot with a motorcycle. 800km tour would be a 4 day trip with a sprinty ease.. on a chilled 7 days..
my guts tell me you‘ll need more time. But s said, I have almost 0 biking experience. Viel Spaß anyway haha!
this is easily doable in 3 weeks. 800km/20days = 40 km per day . You can add some km’s by riding along the cote d’azur (between Marseille and monaco is beautiful) for a while.
Very easily done in 3 weeks, even in 2 weeks but in 1 week is definitely pushing it.
Don’t use Googlemaps for your routing tho.
Don’t have much to add other then nice to see a fellow Freiburger on here. Salli!
This is very much doable imo. If I’m biking every day I average around 500k-600k in a week.
Sure you could cycle the mikes, but bike touring I’ve enjoyed the mist us with enough time baked in to enjoy the ‘non-cycling’ times.
Personally, I font enjoy just cycling fir days and days, but some ppl do.
Your bike trip is literally your bike trip.
If you love cycling every day, then do that, if you want to cycle for 2 or 3 dats then have time if to see the sights, do less miles.
Just finished touring Asia, abd we gad more tine than we thought, so just added some loops where we fancied more cycling.
Enjoy ⭐😊
On flatish ground, at a leisurely pace, 40km is roughly 2 hours of cycling. Depends on your fitness level and how much gear you’re carrying. Looks like it’s uphill most of the way though. Should be doable. My advice would be to plan your route well, as you’ll have more fun climbing beautiful terrain than just being on the side of a motorway
Oh yes, 40kms per day will be no problem at all, even untrained. I agree with others, Google Maps will not give you good routes. Use a site like Komoot or [cycle.travel](http://cycle.travel) (my personal favorite) to plan your route.
I would advise you to make several variants of the route in case you two find out that you can easily cover more distance in a day. For example, consider planning some optional 1-2 day detours that you can skip if needed, but ride if you are ahead of schedule, something like this – [https://i.imgur.com/6Yq8g5I.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/6Yq8g5I.jpeg) I often do this when I plan my routes, giving myself plenty of flexibility while at the sametime never having to stress about getting to my endpoint in time for my return flight. If I’m stressed for time, I simple skip a detour.
You should look at eurovelo 6
Just a thought: there’s a canal that runs from Mulhouse to Dole which is a lovely ride (and may be ev6 that a previous commenter mentioned). From there you can ride through burgundy and join the rhone at Lyons. In my opinion that’s nicer than via geneva.
Thats a great pace an will allow for plenty of stops and perusing around…in fact you might find yourself reaching your goal early, not an issue as long as you are flexible with accomodations.
camping off season is great, because you don’t have to book anything.
if you do book everything in advance though, just take this as a learning experience. being exhausted will definitely not be an issue thats a very nice beginner pace and easy to do
I recommend passing through Fribourg/Freiburg on the way, that way you can visit the other Freiburg 😉
Everyone here has done 800km ÷ 21 days to find the daily average distance required to complete the trip in the amount of time you have except you. Do you think you guys are ready to plan a trip like this and look after yourselves while you do it?