A camping chair is on our ‘must have’ equipment list for the next big bike trip, so I was interested to see them on display at a bike and trekking fair last weekend in Amsterdam. With our new video camera, I took this short clip showing two different camping chair kits from Thermarest, including a […] Read More »
Andrew and I are as far as you can get from the ultralight bike touring crowd. We’ve been known to carry 6 books, a rock collection and 2kg of not-yet-ripe avocados in our panniers. But still, I enjoyed finding this extensive page on ideas for ultralight bike touring. Maybe we could learn something… Read More »
You only need to know one thing about buying a rack for your bicycle tour: don’t get a cheap one. Racks take a beating on a bike tour and cheap racks are likely to break relatively quickly. Learn more about Choosing A Rack For Bike Touring and the Tubus racks we use for touring. Read More »
Carl Cartlidge biked from Europe to Istanbul: the long way. His route took him north to the Arctic Circle before he turned around and headed south to Istanbul. Now he’s sharing tips for bike touring in Scandinavia, in this week’s 10 Questions feature. Read More »
We’ve all been there. You park your bike up against a wall, turn around and…. boom! It falls to the ground. That’s how we put most the scratches on our bicycles at least. But if we’d listened to the advice in this week’s Ask A Mechanic feature, we might have kept the paint job on […] Read More »
