The bike 4-day has been a great success. On average there have been about 30 cyclists incl. escorts per day. This is quite manageable and thus the event has not been too colossal. Now we are switching to weekly cycling.
The departure time at the Noorddam Center for the first group will be 9:30 am. We will start with two groups: blue of 20 km and red/orange of 30 km. All pace is leisurely cycling and where groups become large, we will take into account splitting a group on the spot. The routes used will not always use junctions and may be adjusted on the day.
The above changes come from the learning points we received from the bike 4-day. These learning points were:
- Departure time of 9:00 a.m. at the North Dam Center is early
- All groups cycle slowly (no participants for road bikes)
- The red group with a distance of 25 km is almost the same as the orange group of 30 km
- Groups that get very large are better off splitting up
- Cycling via nodes is easy, but also limits you in options