Read, read, read. That’s our advice if you’re thinking of a tour. So much good information is available online. Here are links to some of our favourite sites:
Bike Discussion Forums
Great general resources
- Bike Touring Tips
- Bike Tourist Podcast
- Ken Kifer’s bike pages
- Phred Bicycle Touring Mailing List
- Sheldon Brown’s Bicycle pages
- Warm Showers
Fun and inspiring reads
- Bicycle Design
- Homemade Bike Panniers
- Impressions from Bicycle Travels (photos)
- Peter Gostelow
- The Ubiquitous Blog
- Touring on a Trike
- Tour Tales
Long-distance Cycling Blogs
- Across Canada in the Winter
- Andrea & Marcel (German)
-
Bankerbiker (German and English)
- Biciclown (a 10 year trip)
- Bike Away: Yves + Ingrid (German)
- Bikefish: Australia focused with a bit of Asia
- By Bicycle Into Retirement
- Conrad Philipp
- Cycling Around The World
- Cycling Dutch Girl (Dutch and English)
- Cycling Home From Siberia
- Erck.org
-
Frogs on bents ( French and English)
- Europe on a bicycle
- Family On Bikes
- Globetreter
- Going Slowly (Tyler & Tara around the world)
- Gregor Arndt
- Herberts Weltbild (German)
- Hobobiker
- Itchy Wheels
- It’s fahr…. it’s rad
- Kyrgyzstan to Kathmandu
- MagBaz Travels
- Mal & Lee
- Olaf’s Traveltips (German)
- Resdagboken (Swedish)
- Scott and Becky Go East
- Szántó Gergely (Hungarian)
- Tyson Manering
- World Biking