cycling in turkey?

turbo1191
turbo1191 Posts: 501
edited July 2014 in Road general
Im going off on holiday to turkey (near fethiye) in a month or so, and i was wondering if anyone has done any cycling out there and what it was like.. (road conditions, drivers etc). :?

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  • neilo23
    neilo23 Posts: 783
    Was in the south this year and hardly saw anyone on bikes full stop. I asked a taxi driver about cycling and he said it's quite dangeorus in the towns (probably because nobody does it). However, we went on an excursion inland to a national park and would have loved to have had my bike. The road surface wasn't too great but there was very little traffic and the scenary was spectacular.
    I assume some people ride: we were in Antalya and on the way to the airport saw what looked like a good LBS with road bikes in the window.
  • turbo1191
    turbo1191 Posts: 501
    Yeh id be trying to stay away from any major towns. The coast roads and possibly some of the mountain roads look fairly dooable. cheers :)
  • neilo23
    neilo23 Posts: 783
    You might have trouble finding cyclist-friendly food. Didn't see much on offer apart from variations of meat-on-a-stick :-)
  • clickrumble
    clickrumble Posts: 304
    I was in Calis, near Fethiye last year for a holiday. mrs CR and I rented a couple of wrecks from a beach side place and cycled a short way to Fethiye. Most of this was along a very pleasant promenade and then a very good lunch in Fethiye. I couldn't comment on what conditions would be like for "serious" cycling though.

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