Heinz Stücke, perhaps the world’s most famous bike tourist, with nearly 600,000km under his wheels, has a new website. Read about his life, listen to interviews and see photographs from this epic 48-year bike tour. Read More »
You may not know it, but there’s a place online where you can watch films about bike touring from all over the world. We’ve picked out 5 of the best films from the Wereldfietser group (that’s Dutch for World Cyclist). Laugh, learn and be inspired by these great accounts of other bike tourists and their […] Read More »
The West Highland way. Tierra del Fuego. Around Britain. The entire Lewis and Clark Trail. These are just a few of the bike touring dreams you told us about in last week’s contest to win a copy of the Ride The Divide DVD about a race down North America’s Great Divide mountain bike route. Now […] Read More »
One of our dreams is to cycle the 4,400km Great Divide mountain bike route, along the spine of the Rocky Mountains. So, we eagerly sat down last week to watch the Ride The Divide movie; a documentary that follows an unsupported mountain bike race along the same route. Read our review, and enter to win […] Read More »
Bike touring sometimes requires you to be creative, especially if your bike breaks down and you can’t get access to the parts you need. How about fitting a 32-spoke hub to a 36-spoke rim? It’s possible, if you have no other choice… as two bike tourists tell us in this interview. Read More »
