Overview of the journey
Overview of the journey and the stops
Here is an overview of the journey from Copenhagen to Berlin, with the overnight stops and the distances we ride every day. We start from Copenhagen 28th of May, and arrive in Berlin on 5th of June, where we have programme on 6th and 7th of June.
The stops between are Køge, Præstø, Stubbekøbing, Nykøbing, Rostock, Güstrow, Waren in the beautiful Müritz nature park, and Fürstenberg.
Click the image on the right to take a closer look at it.
List of the overnight stops is on the accommodations -page, where you can also see which hostels, schools and campingplaces we stop at.
In the beginning the daily bicycling distances are shorter, and get a little longer once we warm up and approach Berlin. We get some sea-atmosphere too, when we arrive with the ferry to Rostock on 1st of June.
Radweg Berlin-Kopenhagen
Cycling for libraries -journey follows the Berlin-Copenhagen bicycle-route, which is a very well known, European bicycle route. See the official website of the route, German Wikipedia and the About the route -page on the Cycling for libraries -website. Here you can see the logo that we will look for.
Also the Radreise Wiki -website has an interesting article about the route, including an elevation profile somebody has recorded with a GPS-device. As you can see, the route rolls smoothly across the landscape.
Elevation profile Berlin-Copenhagen by Jürgen Mages
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What a fabulous idea. If I could figure out how to get my bike out of the U.S. economically, I’d be wanting to join you. Libraries + bikes — this could easily replace Code4Lib as my favorite library get together.
–TR
Thanks for those words TR! I’m quite excited about code4lib myself. I havn’t attended any of the events, but i keep an eye on the journal and lurk on IRC every now and then. Here in Europe we have this European Library Automation Group (ELAG), which is very interesting. This year ELAG 2011 will be held in Prague, and some people are rushing from there to join us on bikes as soon as ELAG is over. If it wasn’t for Cyc4lib, i would surely be at ELAG 2011!
Instead of replacing our favourite get togethers, let’s work on making them more connected somehow. These seemingly unrelated worlds of libraries, coding and bicycling can be made to connect.
Besides there are ways to join: this year between Copenhagen and Berlin we will have half-a-dozen people from the USA, a couple of Canadians and even an OZ from down under. I know some people who cannot attend are doing their own “shadow-events” with a friend or two. Anyways, hoping to see you another time perhaps and please bring my love to the code4lib -community
What are the typical temperatures during our ride? As an experienced touring cyclist, I know to bring something for everything but the ratio of hot weather clothes to cold weather gear changes with expectations. Naturally rain gear is a given.
Thats a good question that I also would like an answer to. I’m not so experienced as a cyclist, so i really would appreciate to know what to bring along considering cycling clothing. If there are any hints on what else to bring along (or leave home), those would be more than welcome
Prepare for wind, especially on the Danish bit. The route follows the coast, and there’s plenty of wind-energy generators, so some wind is to be expected. Other than that, it’s the early summer so the weather should be quite nice indeed, though not particilarly warm. Shorts and shortsleeves will not be enough, and especially evenings will be chilly after sunset, so a sweater/hoodie will be necessary. Some sort of light gloves are a good idea to pack.
You can google for “denmark climate” and judge for yourselves.
I have publicly announced that I am personally responsible that the weather will be good (especially dry) during the Cycling for libraries -tour
Here are very basic items to consider having with you as you cycle.
1) At least three inner tubes, hand pump, and puncture repair kit. You change inner tubes
during day and repair the punctures at night. It’s miserable repairing an inner tube in the rain
on the side of the road, which, if you don’t have any spare tubes, is guaranteed to happen,
despite Mace’s sunny promise.
2) Small, reliable compass. The route may be well marked, the maps may be perfect but if
human error causes you to take a wrong turn and you don’t realize it for a lonnnnnng time, you
could find yourself off the map.
3) You’ll probably be able to tell the Americans from everyone else by the helmets we’ll be
wearing. At least that was my experience about 20 years ago and in Argentina four years ago.
4) Rear-view mirror located on helmet or sunglasses/eyeglasses. Mirrors on handle bars can
to cause you to maneuver your handle bars such that your end up in the path of a car. Also
the handle bar mirrors are so big that they can catch the wind, the last thing you want
if you encounter a head wind.
5) I’ll bring a set of socket wrenches because my bike is built in inches, not metrics.