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For reference: it is possible to ride 47km at ludicrous speed with 3 of the best apple pies in the world in a shoulderbag, and have them arrive almost completely intact.

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  4. You must have done more than 47km, what with your mind-bending timewarp of a detour. I have to say, I’ve rarely been that confused.

    1. EPIC FAIL

      Maybe I’ll revisit the area with my GPS and try and figure out the route I took… but basically just as I was thinking “I should turn left here” there was a sign that said Montreal ↑ plus a bike symbol so I went straight, following a bike path. Eventually it turned left, then right, then decided I’d definitely ridden further than I needed, checked the map, and yes I was north west of the bridge entry point. I rode to the bridge then took a pedestrian staircase up to the deck, and saw you guys way in the distance.

      So the moral is I should trust my sense of direction, lacking as it can be, over quebec bike signs, at least when I don’t have the time for a scenic detour.

      1. Re: EPIC FAIL

        Ha, I think I ended up at that exact sign at some point. Even knowing that I was massively lost, I still knew that Montreal was definitely not that way. I think I might have even gone exactly the opposite way of that sign, and ended up precisely at the normal bridge onramp.

        Yeah, the Quebec bike routes are normally kind of sane, except in Longueuil, which leaves sanity by the wayside in this as in so many other things.

        1. Re: EPIC FAIL

          I wasn’t even properly lost. I just figured it was a sign I should follow. Bad idea in Longeuil, yeah.

          And I dunno about the sanity of the bike routes in general. Often when I’m touring I’ll do my own thing – do I really want to ride down some windy side road with lots of twists and turns to save riding on the shoulder of a highway for 500m?

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