Heinz Stücke, the world’s longest travelling cyclist, will ride through northern Canada in 2010 and then set off for many of the world’s islands. The news on Heinz’s progress comes from Japanese bike tourist Daisuke Nakanishi, who hosted Heinz for a few days in Japan earlier this month. Read More »
Anyone else been lucky enough to have their loaded touring bikes captured when Google’s camera van came down the street? 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 »
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 »
Now this is why we moved to The Netherlands – they have conferences on bike touring! As regular readers might guess, this one was organised by the fabulous Wereldfietser club and their great work meant that 650 people came through the doors last Saturday in Rotterdam to learn all about travelling by bicycle. Here are […] Read More »
