{"id":6178,"date":"2010-11-07T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2010-11-04T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:41:36","slug":"they-call-them-fairy-chimneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/?p=6178","title":{"rendered":"They Call Them “Fairy Chimneys”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After waking up in the clean and sunny comfort of our rooms at the Dora Motel in Cappadocia, we decided it was high time for the entire team to take a wheel together. So we unfolded our Dahons, and walked them down to the market, where we had seen people renting bicycles.<\/p>\n

In the market, we ran into a fellow selling Turkish IDs, press passes, and other printed and laminated images.<\/p>\n

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We stopped to take a look at his wares, and as I was noticing that his sample ID, taped on his printer, looked startlingly like my father<\/a>, the proprietor took a picture of me with his DSLR, smiling at me and offering to make me a Turkish driver\u2019s license. I politely declined and we moved on to find a cycle.<\/p>\n

The fellows renting bikes were quite interested to see that we\u2019d mostly arrived with our own cycles, and we were more than happy to let them take the Speed TRs out for a spin. Their offerings, on the other hand, were none too impressive. In the end, we ended up selecting a cycle, but the brakes were so poor and the transmission so finicky\u00a0 that Scott volunteered to ride the thing, leaving Claudia on his Speed TR, and Diane on the Vitesse D7.<\/p>\n

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And from there we set out, into the blazing sun, the unforgiving desert, and the jaw-dropping geology of this place. We quickly turned off the main road and onto a sandy side path, heading into one of the clusters of \u201ccave\u201d dwellings.<\/p>\n