When we started bike touring, we experienced a daily pannier explosion. As soon as we stopped in a campsite or hotel room, everything would fly out of our bicycle bags and end up in a big heap on the ground. Hardly ideal. Want to avoid this chaos? Here’s how we and other bike tourists keep […] Read More »
What do the North Sea Cycle Route, the Pamir Highway and Japan all have in common? They’re all on our list of the 10 places we’d next like to go on a bike tour. See what else is on our list, and tell us where you’d like to ride your bike! Read More »
Finding insurance for an extended, international bike tour can be complicated. That’s why we recently ran a survey of bike tourists who’d been on long tours to ask their advice. Now we have a long list of possible insurers to share with you. We also discovered that many people – a third in our survey […] Read More »
Emil is cycling from Sweden to China. Hundreds of other cyclists will make similar journeys this year, but Emil’s is special because in 2009 he couldn’t walk. In this interview, Emil tells us how he recovered from a serious back injury to cycle again, and offers tips for dealing with back pain while bike touring. Read More »
Wondering how to go bike touring with just 10kg of gear? This is the lightweight packing list that helped us travel with just back bags for a 3-week bike tour in Spain. See what we took along and then let us know what you’d take if you only had back panniers to work with. Read More »
