The public transport in Oslo works so that single-tickets are expensive compared with season tickets. At some point I grew too decadent to bike every day no matter the weather, and I also frequently have "downtime" when the bike(s) needs repairs and maintenance ... so every so often I end up on public transport again, and I buy a season card, or even a full-year-card. Due to the sunken-cost fallacy (plus that I enjoy being able to check up emails etc while travelling to work), I seldom bike when I have already paid for public transport. But on days like this ... May has been extraordinary hot and sunny ... well, why not go biking a bit! But I hate biking along the highway. Yesterday I tried out some new random routes, I spent maybe 15 minutes extra.
The T-sign is sort of meaningless for a biker. Sometimes (most times!) it just means that some few hundred meters down the road there will be a sign telling that it's not allowed to continue by cars or motorbikes, and often there will be some kind of turnpike for stopping cars.
This time too - first a sign telling that cars and motorbikes aren't allowed and will risk a penalty, then the turnpike. I has too big speed to get a photo of the sign, but I had to stop for the turnpike.
Well, I don't really see the point with the sign and the turnpike. Eventually I had to get off the bike and continue by feet.
I need to stop and read the map, but I don't have time for that, THERE ARE MOSQUITOES HERE!
Found a better road eventually, but a bit too high speed to take photos ...
Looks like we're getting closer to civilization again. Look out for horses! (no, I didn't see any ... my wife was once kicked be a horse while she was out biking though).
From that point it was just downhill until I came out to my regular biking route. Later the same day we got invited to visit someone in our neighbourhood, we started talking about biking to work. He said he was daily biking along that better road I got out to. Apparently I had passed a crossroad and turned right instead of left before getting onto the parts of the trail where I had to give up biking.
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