How To Plan A Bicycle Tour 6 Months In Advance: Step 5 – Plan Your Route

We’ve been working backwards to plan your big bicycle touring adventure and we’re almost finished. The only thing left to do now is plan your route!
As I mentioned in my previous articles, most traveling cyclists begin planning their tour by starting with a route. They think that they can figure out which roads they will [...]

Meet Me In Las Vegas At The Interbike Trade Show

September 24 – 26, 2008 marks the dates for the 2008 Interbike trade show, the largest bicycle related exhibition in the Western Hemisphere.
The event is held in Las Vegas, Nevada each year… and according to the Interbike website, the trade show consistently delivers the:
 Largest number of new and unique products, from nearly every known bicycle [...]

How To Plan A Bicycle Tour 6 Months In Advance: Step 4 – Create A Budget

Once you’ve decided upon the destination for your bike tour, the next step is to create a budget. Unless you’ve got more than enough money to go around (I know I sure don’t), you’re going to want to know how much your bicycle adventure is going to cost.
If you are planning to take a guided [...]

Sea To Summit Titanium Spork

When traveling by bike, you should always be on the look out for ways to make your load lighter. Weight is not a cyclist’s friend, and if you can find a way to reduce the weight or size of your packs, you should do it! Sometimes this is done by buying lighter or more compact [...]

How To Plan A Bicycle Tour 6 Months In Advance: Step 3 – Do Your Research

After you’ve created a plan of action, the next step is to do some research.
At this point in the planning process, you may not have decided exactly where you are going to go. All you know at this point is that you are going to go somewhere… and you’ve made a list of the things you [...]

How To Plan A Bicycle Tour 6 Months In Advance: Step 2 – Create A Plan Of Action

Once you’ve decided that your bike trip is really going to happen, the next step is figuring out exactly what actions you need to take before you can start your big bicycle touring adventure.
Once you’ve set the date for the start of your tour, you can then begin working backwards by determining exactly what needs [...]

How To Plan A Bicycle Tour 6 Months In Advance: Step 1 – Make The Decision

Bicycle touring is a fun, adventurous and life-altering sport. But before any of the good stuff can happen, you have to decide that you really do want to travel by bike. You have to make the commitment!
Almost every day I get an email from someone who has started to think about the possibilities of traveling [...]

How To Plan A Bicycle Tour 6 Months In Advance: An Introduction

It’s been over a year now since my last long distance bicycle tour and I’m getting a bit antsy. I just watched “A Map For Saturday” and now all I can think about is travel. The problem is I’m busy with work, I’ve got too many responsibilities, I don’t have much money, and the last [...]

How To Pack Your Panniers: An Inside Look

Currently, the most popular article on the site here at BicycleTouringPro.com is an article simply titled, “How To Pack Your Panniers.” The article features a detailed breakdown of everything I carry in my panniers and also includes a 30 minute video where I physically show you the contents of my bicycle touring bags.
Since writing that [...]

Why Color Is So Important On A Bicycle Tour

Color isn’t something I first thought about when I began traveling by bike, but over the years I’ve come to the realization that color is very important. When traveling by bike, there are a number of areas to pay attention to when selecting colors… and I want to talk about these areas today.
Panniers:
When traveling by [...]

Reader Testimonials

Over the past couple months I’ve started collecting some of the positive comments readers have sent me in regards to the website here at BicycleTouringPro.com. I love receiving these types of messages, as they are what keep me motivated to continue working on the site.
I thought it would be fun to share some of these [...]

An Interview With World Traveler & Documentary Filmmaker: Brook Silva-Braga

When Brook Silva-Braga left his job as an Emmy-Award winning TV producer for HBO to spend more than 11 months traveling around the world, his co-workers didn’t know what to think. Carrying 5 pounds of clothing and more than 30 pounds of video equipment in a backpack, Brook would spend the next year traveling through [...]

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