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Tara Alan and Tyler Kellen: Going Slowly Round The World
Jetlagged in Glasgow at the very start. A few years ago, Tyler Kellen had the sort of hair-brained scheme that many cyclists have: set off on a tour around the world. He started asking his...
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Laura Crawford and Russ Roca: Touring America On The Path Less Pedaled
Laura and Russ. Photo by Russ Roca. Over the past two years Laura Crawford and Russ Roca have ridden thousands of miles around America, exploring its nooks and crannies, meeting its people, and...
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Bike Camping 1972-Style
I rely on Google for too much, arguably. My email, my calendar, the analytics for this site, searching the Internets. Now, thanks to their mad attempt to scan every published document in existence, I...
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PJ Park: The Long Ride To Maya Pedal
PJ and his Big Dummy in Antigua, Guatemala. Photo from PJ’s blog. Last week, I wrote a short post about an awesome organization in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala called Maya Pedal. The group re-purposes...
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Jill Homer: Ultra Endurance Racing Around the World
Jill at the 2008 Iditarod Trail Invitational. Photo via Jill’s Blog. Jill Homer’s bike racing palmarès read like a checklist of some of the world’s foremost ultra-endurance and adventure racing...
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Michelle Cassel and Ryan McAfee’s Tour of America ByCycle
Michelle Cassell and Ryan McAfee are multimedia journalists-turned-adventurers exploring America by bike. As the journalism industry continued to falter in 2011 and the duo continued to struggle to...
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Kyle Dempster: A Climber’s Ride on the Backroads of Kyrgyzstan
Kyle Dempster is one of the top alpine climbers in the world. The 29 year old has pioneered new routes on some of the tallest mountains including Baintha Brakk in Pakistan and K7 in the Karakoram. He...
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Jeff Bahnson: Cyclocross, Bike Touring, and the Freedom of Adventure
Photo from Van Dessel. In 2008, the MABRA cyclocross series championship race was a heated battle between Jeremiah Bishop and Jeff Bahnson. Ultimately it was decided by a close sprint at the line with...
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Martina Brimmer: Swift Industries and the Empowerment of Adventures by Bike
Photo courtesy of Martina. Martina Brimmer is the force behind Seattle-based pannier and bag company Swift Industries. She’s also a dedicated bike tourist, adventurer, writer (she is a co-contributor,...
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Buy the Book: Cycling Sojourner Washington
I’m excited to announce the release of Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-day Tours in Washington! This brand new guidebook covers nine distinct tours all around Washington state, from the...
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Repost: Ellee Thalheimer, Oregon’s Bike Touring Authority
Ellee on tour. Photo via author’s website. This interview with guidebook author Ellee Thalheimer was originally published in July 2012. I am reposting it to celebrate the release of her new Washington...
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Nicholas Carman: Pedaling the World as a Gypsy by Trade
Lael Wilcox and Nicholas Carman on the Arizona Trail in 2013. Photo by Nicholas Carman. The chorus to the JJ Cale song “Homeless Man” goes, “I’m not a homeless man/I’m a gypsy by trade/And I’m...
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Follow Your Way – Chile from Iść Swoją Drogą on Vimeo. This short film captures the people, places, and feeling of four months of bike touring through Chile. It’ll get your spirit of adventure going...
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Dan Malloy: Slow is Fast When You’re Surfing by Bike
Kellen Keene, Dan Malloy, and Kanoa Zimmerman on the Slow is Fast surf tour. Photo by Kanoa Zimmerman. Dan Malloy’s surf career began in typical fashion. He started competing in and winning contests...
View ArticleSEA to PDX with the Boyz on the Hoods
The Boyz on the Hoods are a crew of bike camping and randonneuring dudes from northern California. This summer they spent five days touring from Seattle to Portland on back roads through the Gifford...
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Jim Sayer: The Big Money Business of Bike Touring
Adventure Cycling Association’s Executive Director Jim Sayer. As winter turns to spring and the weather starts airing on the side of nice, cyclists give in to powerful daydreams of summer adventures...
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Erick Cedeño: The Nomadic Life of a Bicycle Traveler
Bicycle Nomad Erick Cedeño in Puerto Rico. Photo courtesy Erick Cedeño. Whether one night or one week, the end of a bike tour always leaves me wanting more. It’s something I’ve heard from other bike...
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The 3 Month Honeymoon By Bike
The Megamoon tour of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Photo via maiamedia.co.uk. When Hannah Maia and Patrick Taylor-Bird got married, they decided to go big with their honeymoon: a three-month...
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Episode 10 – Anna Brones
Anna Brones is a journalist and author of Hello, Bicycle, Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, and The Culinary Cyclist. Theme music is by Will McKindley-Ward. Support this podcast by making a...
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Buy the Book: Cycling Sojourner Washington
I’m excited to announce the release of Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-day Tours in Washington! This brand new guidebook covers nine distinct tours all around Washington state, from the...
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