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Photo essay: Mangyeong Saejae to Sanju
    (42mi, 70km) Very quiet roads, beautiful views and the bicycle capital of Korea
Points of Interest: Bicycle Museum, tombs, Sanju battlefield shrine, museum and monument.
  The ridge over the new highway is entirely artificial, it preserves access along the ridge.
  Rail-bike excursion for tourist.  The amusement goes for two kilometers along an abandon railroad.  It along a river, but the road is between the tracks and the river so it is actually a prettier ride on a bike than a rail-bike, but it is not as novel.
  This chart illustrates the aquatic life in the river.
  A road side spring.  Local people drive here to collect water to take back home because it is suppose to be particularly good.
  Terraced rice fields that step up the valley to the base of the steep slope of the hills.  This is typical, where all of the fertile bottom land that can be used is, and then on the steeper slopes the farms abruptly transition into healthy forests.
  Bicycle sculpture, Sangju, South Korea Bicycle sculpture, Sangju, South KoreaSangju is the "Bicycle Capital of Korea". Its expresses its commitment to bicycle transportations with its investment in bicycle infrastructure and using the bicycle as the theme in several pieces of public art.  The sculpture on the left is along Rt 25, the main east-west highway in town, and the sculpture on the right is in a riverside park. Sangju also host a big bicycle festival every year in the fall.
  In the downtown core some of the streets around the market are blocked to motor vehicles and on the main street there are bike racks every 100 meters -- which are heavily used.  City official say that there are about 85,000 bicycle in the city.  An average of two bicycles per household.
  The number of students using bicycles is given as approximately 14,000.  When the school day ends they flood the streets heading in all directions.  For more on bicycling in Sangju see www.ibike.org/engineering/korea/index.htm#Sangju
  Sangju Bicycle Museum Fittingly, Sangju is also home to a Bicycle Museum. Besides a variety of exhibits on the the history and technology of bicycles, there are a variety of bicycle out in the front of the museum that visitors can try for themselves.
     
 

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