Bike Camping
Camping is, for us, one of the best parts of bike touring.
It might seem daunting at first – all that extra weight! what happens when it rains? – but once you’ve experienced the freedom that carrying a tent brings, the ability to spend time in beautiful and remote areas, and the happy glow that comes from flopping exhausted into your own little home each night, it’s hard to imagine touring without a tent.
Thermarest Camping Mats
Good riding means getting a good night’s sleep so if you’re going to be camping you should put a bit of thought into which sleeping mat is good for you. Don’t even consider camping without a mat. Even in warm weather you’ll want some insulation from the ground. We started our trip with the inflatable Prolite read more...
Tips for Wild Camping
Wild camping – also known as free camping or stealth camping - is something that all independent bike tourists should become comfortable with. Bicycle travel is unpredictable in the sense that you never know how weather, terrain, energy levels, flat tires and other factors will affect your distance for the day. Even if you plan on sticking read more...
Keep Your Tent Zippers Working
It’s the nightmare of every camper: you’re climbing in for the night in a cloud of mosquitoes and just as you’re frantically trying to close up the tent the zippers on the door fail. Visions flash before your eyes of a whole night plagued by blood-sucking insects. Before you dive into your sleeping bag for cover, read more...
Going Soft: Adding A Pillow To Our Bike Touring Gear
We've taken another step towards the 'pampered' end of bike touring. After 3 years of sleeping on a "pillow" of scrunched up clothes, we've finally splurged on the real thing: a Thermarest Compressible Pillow. read more...
Tents for Bike Touring
A tent is perhaps the most crucial piece of equipment that the independent bicycle tourist will carry. It will be your home away from home, a haven from wind, rain and cold temperatures, a key to travelling on a budget and one of the few constants that appears every night as you go from place to read more...
MSR Whisperlite Internationale
Every long bicycle trip needs a good campstove and for our journey we bought the MSR Whisperlite International (). It was an excellent choice. What we like: It runs on many fuels. You can burn Coleman Gas (White Gas) and unleaded petrol for cars as well as a variety of other fuels. With so many options, we knew read more...
Ortlieb folding bowl
It’s hard to separate the important accessories from the frivolous ones when choosing what to take on a tour. For a long time we put Ortlieb’s 10 litre folding bowl () in the second category. We couldn’t imagine why we needed one. It wasn’t until we met a couple with not one but two folding bowls read more...
Camelbak Unbottle 70
Water bottles mounted to your bike frame are fine for shorter journeys but you need to carry far more water than your bottles will hold when wild camping or crossing isolated landscapes. That’s where the Camelbak Unbottle 70 () comes in handy. It holds 2 litres of water and weighs about 340 grams. We actually didn’t start read more...
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