Hi Michel, Thanks for posting this. It’s sad to see that nothing has been done to reduce the amount of traffic in peak periods. It has been building for years, and it’s not rocket science to predict that this was inevitable without necessary action. I agree the E10 is not pleasant to cycle at times. I’ve cycled it twice. Once in mid-June when the traffic was okay and once in mid-August when the traffic was heavy from the towns/villages. Cycle Norway is planning an event in September to promote cycling on the National Tourist roads and to bring better awareness that roads should be shared. I’m going to send the event video to politicians as they seem to contradict their message of reducing carbon emissions before 2030.

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I will also speak with my contacts at Vegvesen to hear their views on Lofoten and other popular roads that cyclists share with campervans.

Just want to add our voices to Michel’s. Lofoten is very crowded on the main roads. We try to get up early to do busy sections and this works very well. The most dangerous experience we had was the Nappstraumtunnelen, which we did around midday. It’s 2km long so we didn’t want to walk the entire thing inhaling the fumes. So we thought we would cycle down, but walk up. However, the footpath was on the wrong side and too dangerous to cross over. So we held up the very impatient traffic, some of whom leaned on their horns to express their feelings, adding to the already overwhelming sound reverberating around the tunnel. The nusfjord-ballstad ferry was too expensive for us. We can see there is no easy fix for this, except to make sure you do it early in the morning.