Take the city of Hamburg as an example, I used to be one of the many thousands who were traveling by bike every day, with an average daily temperature above 12 º C and about 190 days of rain per year, with three months of frost in the winter you can imagine how I looked forward to cycling in Mallorca when I moved here … average temperature of 21 º C, only 74 days of rain per year, lots of sun, and only a few hills in the low country of Palma.
But the reality is different for seven years now I’ve been driving around Palma on a scooter or car Palma is the city with the most cars per capita in Spain, and the number grows for city planners respond by building more roads and parking parks, towns and villages on Mallorca lacks the infrastructure that would make cycling play an important role to eliminate traffic cycle as a means of transport is practically non-existent – either in the minds of politicians, nor in the minds of the majority of the population lack of bike lanes, combined with bad roads and aggressive drivers make biking in Mallorca is very dangerous.
The few existing cycle lanes do little to change the situation in general, it is now possible, for example, cycle along the Bay of Palma, El Arenal to Magaluf on a newly-built cycle path, but this track just fine for leisurely trips as there are no connecting bike paths to other areas.
Recently, the Town Hall of Palma has given users of several parking lots with rental bikes for free if you park the car beneath the cathedral and close to Avenida, you can rent a bike will cost free – a new model of park-and-ride system! Also available in child seats, helmets, and bicycle baskets, but when you go and find yourself in the middle of heavy traffic Palma, it can be scary The only place to feel safe are some of the quieter and narrow alleys in the historic center .
If you do not want to use your bike as a means of transport but enjoy cycling as a hobby or sport, are improvements being made and options are growing until recently, the Balearic government constructed about 235 km of new bike paths, allowing one to explore a large stretch of flat , countryside between Inca and Campos with reliable bike While this is primarily intended for touring and racing cyclists, there are also special trails for mountain bikers.
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