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Introducing RIMBY

The best rides close to home

Exotic cycling trips are fun to read about but often tough to replicate. Too far to travel, too much time required. With the Trip Of The Month, we try to feature shorter adventures, with RIMBY we go one step further.

Posted by Gerard Vroomen , photos by Marc Gasch - 29 July 2018

In my mind, there is no better tool than the bicycle to explore new ground. As the British cycling author Richard Ballantyne wrote:

It’s fast enough to get through the forest, yet slow enough to see the trees.

As a result, the Trip Of The Month is my favorite section of our 3T blog. We try to pick trips that are tough, epic, in cool locations but still attainable. The 3-day trips of the XPDTN3 collective are perfect in that way; you can retrace them on a long weekend and they allow you to escape to a completely different world.

There’s just one problem: the cool locations often require flying. And I hate flying. I can’t help but be in a plane regularly for business, but I don’t like it and for leisure I try to avoid them as much as possible. The hassle of airports, the annoyance of packing a bike, the environmental impact, none of it appeals to me.

Luckily, I always find enough to explore close to home, for example around the lakes southeast of Amsterdam.

But in blogs and other publications, it seems the exotic beats the local any day. Maybe it is cycling’s version of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).

So I suggested to some friends we start a series of blog posts to sing the praises of local adventures: Not NIMBY but RIMBY – Ride In My Back Yard. My “rules” were simple:

  • Start from home
  • 1 or 2 days, so it fits within a normal weekend
  • Text, photos (horizontal-landscape orientation please, no verticals) and GPS files or it didn’t happen
  • Have fun

Other than that, it doesn’t matter. It can be all about the riding, about the scenery, the cuisine, a landmark, on road, gravel or pixie dust. It’s just to appreciate what we have in our own backyard.

Starting next month, you’ll see RIMBY reports show up on the blog. If you have any great RIMBYs yourself, let us know and we’d love to feature them. We can’t promise we’ll feature them all, we don’t want to overflow the blog, but the best ones will definitely make it onto the blog and into our newsletter.

 

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6 responses to “Introducing RIMBY”

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    Rhianna Bird says:

    21 January 2019

    WOW, im glad i found your site on google. Thank you for putting this information out there.

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    Philip Ruijs says:

    15 October 2018

    Sounds nice, thinking of it. But does it require a 3T bike to join??
    It’s a wish to be able to test one though. Maybe I can change for it in near future??

    Thanks,
    Philip (The Netherlands).

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    1. Gerard Vroomen says:

      15 October 2018

      All that is needed for a RIMBY is to go and ride. And all that is required for a RIMBY to be featured on our blog is to be a great route with great photos. We do just one a month so we can’t really guarantee to anybody that their trip will be featured, and of course it’s subjective which RIMBY is “the best”, but we try to pick a nice mix of achievable and outlandish trips.

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    Marc Gasch says:

    22 September 2018

    Hola Eduardo, un gusto oir eso! no olvides rellenar el formulario al final del post sobre el programa de ambassadors de 3T y así tener la posibilidad de colaborar con nosotros, gracias!

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    Eduardo Zamora says:

    22 September 2018

    I write because I would love to be part of this blog.
    I am a cyclist who loves adventure and discover new routes.
    One of my goals is to expose my training routes with its landscapes and details, besides showing a different cycling in my country Costa Rica.

    Thanks for your attention.

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    1. Gerard Vroomen says:

      15 October 2018

      You live in a beautiful country. I hope you get to share your routes.

      Reply
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