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Warning: bicycle touring is highly addictive. Here are some of our stories and notes from various bicycle tours.
There are several small, but very useful, pieces of gear that have impressed me on our current tour, and a couple of items that have been with me since our last tour that have definitely proved their worth.
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
One of the original aspects of bike touring that drew my interest was the ability to explore areas on my own at a slower pace. Sometimes days of loaded down riding just for the sake of making distance can take some of the fun away. In order to get back to having fun I decided to remove the panniers and head out into the mountains to explore the Jungfrau Region by bicycle instead of taking the day off. I’m glad I did.
A week of bicycle touring the Moselle and Rhine Rivers. Two of Europe’s most popular cycling routes. Pedaling down the Moselle River from Luxembourg City to Koblenz and then up the Rhine.
Cycling from London to the Netherlands through France and Belgium on a Surly Cross Check. The start of my European bike tour.
Riding on a train in Ireland during the first week of backpacking about Europe during the Summer of 2010 I saw several groups of travelers boarding with lightly loaded touring bicycles. The moment I saw this I thought that it would be a great way to see Europe…
As I was patting myself on the back for making it across the canal and to my destination, I wasn’t really expecting much from Panama City itself. But while rolling through and catching a glimpse, I knew that it required further exploring… plus trip stats.
After our Nicoya bike adventure we tore through the remainder of Costa Rica and most of Panama in 13 days with merely 2 rest days in between…
A 208 mile (335 km) off-pavement adventure over some of the most challenging and rewarding terrain of our trip…
We recently heard rumblings about a must-ride ‘extra’ to the typical southward bound pan-american cycling route: an eighty-some-odd mile figure-eight around the double-volcano island of Ometepe in the southern freshwater sea of Lago de Nicaragua.
A short post about our rides through Nicaragua… so far. Now, we’re off to Isla de Omotepe… more to come.
Out of Petén and into Alta Verepaz. Have I already mentioned the Guatemalan roads? We heard there were big climbs, complete with smog-belching, fast-rolling chicken buses (like Fernandita, pictured here). The buses aren’t bad at all, but the roads are definitely steep…
Singletrack/MTB
Gravel/All-road
Dirt-road Touring
Fat-bike
