Cycling Hazards: Dealing With Dogs

Really tired of taking pictures by JW Ogden, on Flickr

I’ll never forget the day in Iran when a group of dogs lunged towards me, surrounded the bike and sunk their teeth into my panniers. So I had some sympathy when I read a journal from another cyclist struggling with dogs. Here’s the sequence we went through when approached by an annoying dog. Read More »

Alan’s World Bike Tour Set To Start

Alan and his bike

Long-time readers of this site may remember Alan Bate, who we met in a guesthouse in Malaysia back in 2008. In an interview for our podcast series, Alan told us how he dreamed of breaking the record for fastest-round-the-world by bicycle. Now he’s ready to set off, on March 31st from Bangkok. Read More »