On April 25th -26th, 1986 the World's worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine).
2000 km to help the people who were forgotten after the largest nuclear disaster of all time


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Mountain Bike Trip Map: July 19, 2006
Day 14-Poland Czestochowa-Sulejów

Welcome to our cross Europe Mountain bike trip map section that outlines our route to raise awareness for the survivors of the Chernobyl accident that took place 20 years ago this year. Feel free to browse our the map below or to use the menu above to find other days of our 2000 km mountain bike trip. The map of this day 19 will start in Czestochowa Poland and end in Sulejów Poland.

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Map Information
Departure
Czestochowa
Destination
Sulejów
Date:
19/07/2006
Distance:
109 km
Time:
7 h 30
Towns: Czestochowa : Redziny : Klmnice : Radomski : Gomunice : Kamiensk : Niechcice : Rozprza : Piotrkow Trybunalski : Sulejow





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Daily Log for July 19, 2006

Day Number: 14 Average Speed: 100 km/h
Date: 19.07.2006 Total Time: 3 h
Start: Czestochowa Altitude acc: 200 m
End: Somwhere in the woods Temperature: 34° C
Total Km: 130 km; Calories 7 Conditions: Sunny, hot
Log Entry for Christian:

I awoke from the campsite and leaned on the side of my bike and the entire front rack fell onto the grass.

Surprised with the rudeness of this act, I grabbed the twisted iron that used to be the mount for the front bags and threw them as far as I could.

Without the bag racks we could not continue so we had checked every shop in town and found nothing. Nothing until one shop recommended another in a town that was 120 km north which was the only chain in Poland who would carry the equipment we needed.

Needless to say we hopped a train and headed into town to find the shop. Ironically, the train wasn’t going any faster then I could on my bike but it had way better bag racks.

We found the parts within an hour and I made the necessary repairs on the bike and then headed back on track. We arrived on our trail at about 8pm and decided to camp for the night in the woods.

With the bags fixed I got a peaceful night's sleep and I even spent some time in the hammock again.

Log Entry for Emmanuelle:

It was a beautiful summer morning when we woke up until Chris leaned against his bike and the rack fell off. It was the big panic. The bike needed massive repairs quick! And this is not an easy task because in Poland they haven't even seen a bike like Chris's. We looked around and there was nothing. During our search, we met my teddy bear buddy from yesterday. He recognized me and my green arm. I introduced him to Chris and we managed to have a conversation in signs in Polish, English, sign and art language. We got to know a little bit of his story, he had 3 children, one in the army, and he was 46 years old and not married. We told him we were married, coming from Canada and Switzerland and had no babies yet. He told us we were a couple of strong individuals and he was happy to have met us. He was a great guy. I will always wonder what brought him to live his life on the streets.

Anyway back to our bike problem. We were told to go to Kielce were there was a big specialty bike store. So Chris took the train with me. Luckily, the store was next to the train station. Chris’s bike got repaired not without any sweat. The store had never seen a bike like his but it had some rack that had all the pieces Chris needed to fix his old one. He worked on it for a couple of hours wile I got to take pictures of a couple of kids biking around.

We were finally ready to continue our trip. We bike a little to just out of Radom to finally crash in a field. It was about 8 pm.




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On April 25th -26th, 1986 the World's worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine)
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