The Ultimate Bike Friday New World Tourist Review

The Bike Friday New World Tourist is thought by some to be the ultimate travel bike for long distance tourists. It’s small wheel base, low-step over feature, fully-loaded capabilities and its ability to fold up and fit inside an airline standard suitcase (thus saving you huge amounts of money when flying with your bicycle) are [...]

Free Online Video For Technologically Advanced World Travelers

When you travel by bike, television access is probably one of the last things you’re going to find yourself thinking about. After all, bicycle touring, for many people at least, is a way of escaping modern society and partaking in a more simple lifestyle.
But for the 21st century bicycle traveler, someone who spends months or [...]

Top 10 Most Important Items On A Bike Tour

There’s a long list of items one might consider when packing for a bicycle tour. But what items are most important?
I’ve been asked numerous times over the years what items I think are most important and worth spending extra money on. So today, I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 most important items for [...]

Getting Your Hair Cut When You Can’t Speak Serbian

This is how long my hair was before getting it cut today in Montenegro.
My previous haircut took place in Germany more than 3 months ago.

It’s been more than three months since I had my last haircut. And my hair, well… is really, really long.
So today, I set off into the streets of Montenegro to find [...]

Lover’s Land Motorcycle Surf Tour

There have been numerous books written by bicycle travelers. The novels come about because the experiences one has while traveling by bike are, often times, life-altering. However, there are times when the experiences one has when traveling by bike can best be portrayed through images. And such is the case with the amazing bike touring [...]

What Would The Ideal Bicycle Pannier Look Like?

After releasing the ultimate list of bicycle panniers, I got around to thinking, “What would the ideal bicycle pannier look like? What would it be made of? What features would it have?”
After a little thinking and a lot of experience using bike panniers in the past, I put together the following, which is a list [...]

How Not To Get Screwed By Carrying Extra… Screws

It’s always a good idea to carry an extra few rack screws on your bicycle tours. These little things are notorious for wiggling themselves free while you spend long hard days in the saddle. With all the gear you’re bound to be carrying, the loss of a rack screw could mean a disastrous end to [...]

The Diversity Of The Austrian Bicycle Culture

Having come from Switzerland, the diversity in Austria seemed incredibly immense – Not only in the people, but in the bicycles as well.
The following are just a few of the bicycle related photos I snapped while cycling through Austria in March and April of 2009. Most of these photos were taken in either Vienna, Salzburg [...]

Swiss Cyclists: A Photo Essay

Two months in Switzerland taught me a lot about bicycling in the cold and snow, but it also taught me a lot about how to look fashionable on a bike. The photos in this article were all taken in various Swiss cities during the months of January and February, 2009. Note how most of the [...]

How To Travel The Adriatic On $1,000 USD Per Month

May was my fifth month in Europe. I’ve been traveling around on my bicycle, renting apartments in various cities along the way, and having the time of my life!
At the end of each month I total up my travel expenses and share them with you. The goal here is to show just how inexpensive world [...]

VIDEO: Bicycling Switzerland In The Winter

I spent the first two months of 2009 in Switzerland. With my bicycle as my only companion, I spent much of my time cycling around in the cold and snow.
Because I was renting an apartment Luzern, Switzerland, which served as my home based, I was able to go out for a day and then return [...]

Is Bike Touring An Extreme Sport?

What category do bicycle travelers fall under? Are we cyclists? Backpackers? Tourists? Or something else completely?
No matter what grouping you think bicycle touring belongs in, for the next month at least, bike touring is being featured as an extreme sport – right up there with other crazy outdoor activites like base jumping, windsurfing and rollerblading.
A [...]

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