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🇺🇦 🚴♂️ Route Art — cycling the outline of Ukraine
✔️💛 I’ll Draw Ukraine 🇺🇦 on MTB in Portugal 🇵🇹
Many of you have probably heard of Route Art, but not many have actually tried riding something like this — myself included. Until now I’d just been watching from the sidelines, always meaning to give it a go.
Well, the time has come. Hope it works out.
The route speaks for itself — I think it needs no explanation 😉
Why it’s challenging:
The route is not within a single city — it’s entirely outside any urban area. Distance: 200 km on an MTB, not a road bike. Hilly and mountainous terrain with 2500–3000 m of elevation gain. And all of this in one go, in a single day.
The map has some inaccuracies — part of the route runs through mountainous terrain where there’s simply no other option, and in some sections along the river and canals there are very few bridges, meaning limited crossing points to trace the outline more precisely. But overall it came out pretty well — thanks to AI 🤖
Weather: overcast, slightly wet in the morning with light rain, +10–12°C at the start and +17–19°C by midday. All in all — close to ideal for a ride like this.
This is my first experience with anything like this. I hope it all goes to plan — and importantly, I hope the roads are already rideable after the recent storms in Portugal, the aftermath of which is still being cleared in many places.
I’ll be posting short updates along the way in our Bike Universe Telegram channel.
Starting tomorrow 🔥