It was several months into our world bike tour before we learned what is arguably the most important rule of wild camping. Had we known it, we would never have put our tent here. Read More »
The Stupidest Place We Ever Camped
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Touring With Technology: Smartphones & Dynamo Hubs
Ever dreamt of ditching the paper maps for a bike tour? Steve Rock did just that for a recent 3-week tour of France, and wrote about his experience in a recent article for the UK’s CTC Magazine. Read More »
10 Questions: Bike Touring Across The Andean Puna
Harriet and Neil Pike spent several months cycling across the Puna: a high altitude region of the Central Andes that spans southern Peru, western Bolivia, north-east Chile and north-west Argentina. They share their tips and experiences from the trip in this edition of 10 Questions. Read More »
The Cyclist’s Pistol
We’d never recommend packing a gun for a bike tour, but back in the early days of bike touring a pistol was commonly carried by adventurous cyclists such as the McIlraths. Today, for the first time, we stumbled across a historic advertisement for a gun built especially for cyclists. Read More »
Our Easter Tour: On Folding Bikes In The Freezing Cold
We’ve just returned from an Easter bike tour through the east of the Netherlands. There were six of us in total, riding four folding bikes and two ‘big wheel’ touring bikes. Here’s the video to tell the story. Read More »