Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking

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Side Quests (self.bicycle_touring)

submitted 10 months ago by AchtungDrempels to c/bicycle_touring

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Always like having a good side quest. I usually just stumble into them along the way, i have a few more, but here are some:

Hit up all the pump tracks. That one i do on every tour really, kinda surprised about how many bike pump tracks or skateparks i come across.
I started playing "don't use the power bank" on a 2,5 week long tour. I lost this game on the 9th day, but only because i didn't know there was a cafe a couple hundred meters further down the road. After i lost i wasn't too keen on keeping on playing anymore, don't really remember.
"Guess the Italian" - In the border regions to Italy i tried to guess number plates of overtaking cars before i could see them. I had no false positives, but a few false negatives. I was impressed by my guessing skills, or by the consistency of italian drivers. This game then somehow faded out in somewhere Italy i guess.

Anybody else got some side quests / mini games they're playing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When cycling in a country where number plates have four numbers on them (e.g. 23-64-AD) I play the ‘24’ game. With simple math (addition, substraction, multiplication, division) try to make a total of 24 with the numbers (3-1=1, 6x4=24, 24x1=24, alternatively 6+4-2=8, 8x3=24, etc)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, haha. I don't know if my math on the fly is good enough for that. Why 24? Is it like your lucky number? I think i'll give that a shot, spaniards have four numbers on their plates i think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It’s easier than it seems :) When I was a kid it was a game we were taught at school, it kinda stuck with me