If you’re looking for a few friends to bike tour with this summer, how about 10,000 fellow cyclists to keep you company? Welcome to RAGBRAI, also known as The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa – an annual 7-day ride from west to east across Iowa that’s been going strong for 38 years. Read More »
We’re amassing quite a collection of bicycle photos from Holland so we thought it was time we shared a few with you. Top of our list of favourites is a shot Andrew took of a little girl, riding in a Bakfiets (literally ‘basket bicycle’) with her father. Read More »
We talk this week to Tim & Cindie Travis, epic bike tourers who’ve been on the road for nearly 8 years, as well as Peter Gostelow who’s riding through Africa. We also describe how we’ve been preparing for a winter bike touring trip. It’s all in the 31st edition of the TravellingTwo bike touring podcast. […] Read More »
If one person shows how it’s never to late to complete your dreams, it must be Dutch cyclist Frank van Dijk. His 7,000km cross-America tour in 1976, from Oregon to Virginia, was cut short in Kansas when an old lady crashed her Buick into Frank’s bike. Now Frank is going back to the U.S. to […] Read More »
We were nominated by the lovely Nora of The Professional Hobo to share our 3 best travel secrets. I could probably list 20 secret travel places but, in keeping with the theme, here are 3 that spring to mind. And yes, the ride there is as wonderful as the destination. Read More »
