November 2018 - Hans on the Bike - 15 years of blogging

Cycling to Ramsey Lake in Sudbury

November 13, 2018 Hansonthebike 3

Reading Time: 7 minutesHans and Karen visit Sudbury, Canada and bike to Ramsey Lake and Laurentian U and back.

Cycling in Urban Sudbury, ON

November 6, 2018 Hansonthebike 2

Reading Time: 8 minutesSudbury is a city in the near north of Ontario. The distance from Ottawa is around 500 km, similar to the distance Amsterdam – Paris. It is well known for its mining activities. We once spent one night there. Initially the plan was to stay at the campsite at that time, but once we figured out the campsite was sandwiched between two highways, and the prevailing sound was one of truckers’ air brakes, we decided to go to a motel instead. There was another campground north of Sudbury, but we never found it. This was before smart phones and before [Read more…]

Hans on the Bike writes about cycling in the Ottawa-Gatineau National Capital Region in Canada. Stay up to date with cycling developments in this bike friendly city with hundreds of kilometres of pathways.

Hans on the Bike is not a very competitive cyclist; most of the time he is cycling around town doing errands or guiding tourists while waving to friends.

As a bicycle tour guide, he hears tons of great feed back from people from all over the world. Even from the Dutch! This is encouraging.

Ms. Hans on the Bike cycles too and is often the voluntold for Hans’ pictures. She famously declared she was not going to bike below +10C but lowered the treshold to -10C over time.

Hans on the Bike - 15 years of blogging

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Month: November 2018

Cycling to Ramsey Lake in Sudbury

Cycling in Urban Sudbury, ON