Cycling stops in Łódź

Łódź grew in one century out of a village into a textile city, and it still reads that way from a bike: mill buildings, workers' housing and factory-owners' palaces along one long street, with the ground almost perfectly level underneath. Riding out of it is a matter of picking a direction: the Łagiewniki forest sits inside the northern edge of the city, and the roads north run through farmland toward the Bzura and the old collegiate town of Łęczyca.

The one relief nearby is east, where a moraine ridge gives the only sustained gradients within an hour of the centre. South-east the Pilica runs between pine woods toward the Sulejów reservoir.