Author Archive | Friedel

Six Tips For Picking A Sleeping Bag

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Crawling into a cozy sleeping bag after a long day on the bike is one of the wonderful pleasures of touring. Equally memorable, for all the wrong reasons, is a sleepless, freezing night because your sleeping bag just wasn’t up to the job. In the latest addition to our bike touring resources section, we give […] Read More »

Book review: Canada By Bicycle

Canada By Bicycle Book

Canada is the world’s second biggest country, so riding your bike across it is no small challenge. That’s why it’s good to have some advice from a cyclist who’s done it before and few accounts are as detailed as Canada By Bicycle – a guidebook written by Steve Langston. It traces the bike tour that […] Read More »

Why I Love Trangia Camp Stoves

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Steve Tober has been travelling with his bike for over 20 years and in all that time, he’s only used one stove: the Swedish made Trangia. “All these years later, the same Trangia is still going strong,” Steve says as he tells us just what’s so great about his favourite stove. Read More »