CYCLING COUNTRY

Bring your Bike

If you’re bringing your bike here are some suggestions. At the most basic level, cycling around Lille is easy and safe. There are lots of bus lanes and cycle paths. An ever growing number in fact. But the city is busy and is surrounded by motorways which can make getting out by bike a bit stressful.
Everywhere around here is very flat and once you are outside Lille there are plenty of quiet roads to cycle. The obvious suggestion is to head off and ride some of the Paris-Roubaix route. My recommendation would be head out to ‘my’ town, Templeuve-en-Pevele, by train from Gare Lille-Flandres, the Valenciennes line; takes about 15 minutes.

If coming by car there’s lots of free parking at the station. 

There’s a famous stretch of cobbles here, sector Moulin de Vertain, and other sections close by in Cysoing (sector Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle). And you’re close to the Carrefour de l’Arbre section. If you look at the Paris-Roubaix route map you can see the various sectors. Usually quiet country roads, and increasingly with dedicated cycle lanes, connecting the sectors. Most towns will have Estaminets to eat at and cafés for refreshments.