Added blog post about the Nijmegen bike tour.

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+Nijmegen Velorama Bicycle Tour
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+:date: 2024-08-13 07:00:00
+:tags: bicycle, social
+:category: news
+:authors: Jason K. Moore
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+The bicycle lab completed their second annual bicycle tour! Neville, Bart,
+Christoph, Nora, Sietse, Jason, and Yumi bicycled from Delft-Rotterdam to
+Nijmegen and back over three days and covered about 250 km. We had a few
+interesting bicycles in the fleet. Neville and Sietse road the stoker-steering
+tandem, Bart rode the lab bakfiets, and Jason and Yumi rode their Innerlight
+tandem. The ride took us along the Waal river and through the beautiful
+Gelderland fruit orchards. In Nijmegen, we visited the national bicycle museum,
+Velorama_, and walked through the history of the development of the bicycle
+with their extensive collection. Following the museum, `Dr. Eric Maris`_ hosted
+us and let us try out his bicycle simulator system at Radboud University. We
+had great weather for the entire ride and closed the trip with a waterbus trip
+from Sliedrecht to Rotterdam.
+
+.. _Velorama: https://velorama.nl/
+.. _Dr. Eric Maris: https://www.ru.nl/en/people/maris-e
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/nijmegen-tour-route.png
+   :align: center
+   :width: 80%
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+   GPS trace of the route we took. We camped just west of Tiel beside the
+   village of Geldermalsen.
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/nijmegen-tour-riding.png
+   :align: center
+   :width: 60%
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+   In route.
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/nijmegen-tour-fiets-museum.png
+   :align: center
+   :width: 80%
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+   Group photo after visiting the museum. Velorama is a quiet, compact musuem
+   with a spectacular historical collection.
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/nijmegen-tour-fiets-simulator.png
+   :align: center
+   :width: 60%
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+   Neville on the treadmill/roller bicycle simulator with Eric giving
+   instruction from the rear.
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/nijmegen-tour-ferry-group-picture.png
+   :align: center
+   :width: 80%
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+   Group photo while waiting for the Varik-Heerewaarden ferry across the Waal.
+
+.. figure:: https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/mechmotum/nijmegen-tour-statue-house-group-picture.png
+   :align: center
+   :width: 80%
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+   Group photo in front of the Nijmegen house of statues (mostly gnomes!).