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The Cycling Tour
Travel & Outdoors · EN · 2 parts · Ongoing · updated 2026-11-07
A solo cyclist on a self-guided Loire tour keeps meeting the same guide leading a group, and the same punctured tyre. A breezy two-part travel romance of riverside roads and warm baguettes.
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“The Cycling Tour” is a Travel & Outdoors story for adults, told in 2 parts and about 4 minutes of reading in total. Every character is 18 or older and every encounter is consensual. Start with Part 1 and use the Next part button at the end of each part, or pick a part from the list below.
- Part 1: Puncture. Hannah is cycling alone along the Loire when her tyre blows out. Pascal, a tour guide with a spare inner tube and a van full of tired tourists, rolls to a stop.
- Part 2: The Last Bend. Hannah's tour ends where the Loire meets the Atlantic. On a sunset beach, with bikes in the dune grass, she and Pascal say what you can say only at a road's end.
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