Trip to Jægersborg Dyrehave

For the trip to the park recommended by the locals I rented a Bycyklen electric bike and started off to Chris's girlfriend's place. It did not take long and I was annoyed by all the slow moving people. The separated bike lanes are fixed in width and usually two bikes for next to each other. Passing is somewhat risky, especially with parking cars to the left. Most of the time one could pass. So if Bonn should ever undertake steps towards becoming a bike city, imagine that, they should be careful to have the bike paths wide enough for passing. Otherwise one is stuck behind some slow rider. At this stage I am not exactly sure what I want. Wide separated bike paths are very nice, riding feels nice. But when the city does not dare to take space and use it for cyclists, having no bike lane might actually be preferable to a narrow bike path as I can then pass people. Not being passed by cars is a plus, though.

For that day Chris had chosen his girlfriend's bike instead of his longboard as we estimated 30 to 40 km for this trip. Here are the two bikes:

We drove quite a long distance to that park, most of the time on official bike routes. The infrastructure was very good, often wide enough for three bikes. Passing larger bikes was possible as well.

The park is very large and mostly woods and grass with wide paths. A lot of horse carriages or horses with smaller kids were out there.

We first stopped at the fort we were told about, the Garderhøjfortet. It was not very pretty, rather pragmatic. We looked to the top and looked at the cannons.

Then we went on to the castle that we got recommended as well. Along the way we saw a few deer on one of the paths through the woods.

The Eremitageslottet turned out to be more of a villa:

We then took a break and sat on a fallen tree and enjoyed the view:

The return trip was not that exciting, except for the remaining battery in my electric bike. It told me that the battery was virtually full for the whole time. I had no idea what the range would be on this thing, so perhaps the full range was like 100 km and we were going to be fine. All the sudden that thing told me that the battery is almost empty, I had a few kilometers left and should recharge soon. It did not even make the stated distance and then I had to drive completely manually on it.