A couple of Sundays ago, Anand and I had this bright idea of taking our bikes on the car and driving off to Bonn and then riding our bikes along the Rhine to Linz or as far as we could go. First we tried putting the bikes in our Audi station wagon. This involved putting down the back seats, removing the bar holding the back shade, but we found to our dismay that the bikes were too big to fit into the car. So we reversed the process, put back the seats and reattached the bar.
Next we put the same bike rack that we used all the time in Cincinnati on our present car. The bike rack went on OK, but when we put both bikes on the rack we found that the bike wheels were covering the tail lights and this was not allowed when driving on main roads, highways etc.,
All this took 45 mts and we were still in our cellar car park. Finally we decided to just start riding our bikes south along the Rhine and ended up having a good ride. We rode all the way past Benrath and took the car ferry to Fest Zons. Had a lovely lunch in an old inn and then rode the bike path on the other side of the Rhine river north towards home. I think we had a good 60 km ride – about 2 hrs each way…Weather was perfect too, cloudy and just cool enough…
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