Facebook Users – Win A Free Hydrathon Water Pack For Your Bicycle
The Hydrathon is a product that uses the frame of your bicycle to help maximize the amount of water that can be carried on your rides. It straps over the top tube of your bicycle and uses two internal reservoirs to store...
Incredibell Omnibell – Bicycle Bell: Product Review
Do you need a bell for you bicycle? The Incredibell Omnibell may have a strange name, but it is an excellent medium-sized bike bell capable of mounting to handlebars of just about any size (22mm – 31.8mm). This superb...
Postcard From The Road: Bicycle Touring In Maine
This postcard from a bicycle tourist in Maine showed up in my mailbox a few days ago. On the back of the postcard is says: Howdy, out on tour right now through Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. You said to send a card, so...
It’s Finally Here! The Essential Guide To Touring Bicycles
My new book about touring bicycles is finally here! Click this link to learn more about it and get your copy now. With the launch of this new book, I thought today would be a good day to talk about touring bicycles…...
Bike Doctor iPhone App – Learn Bicycle Repair
Need to know how to repair your bike or make a necessary adjustment? Get the Bike Doctor app on your iPhone or iPod Touch! The Bike Doctor application is a new app developed by Andreas Kambanis (from the London Cyclist website)...
Questions About Finding The Perfect Touring Bicycle
I’ve got some exciting news! This Saturday I am going to be releasing an incredible new book all about Touring Bicycles. The book is going to be called “The Essential Guide To Touring Bicycles” and it’s...
Safety Is Gained Through Experience
A few weeks ago I conducted a live video event via Ustream where I spoke briefly about my travels on the Katy Trail and shared some of the good books I’ve been reading lately. At the end of my talk, I took questions...
The Bicycle Touring Pro’s 4×9 List
I saw this on Alastair Humphrey’s website. He saw it on Ben Saunders’. Now I’ll add to the experience by creating a list of my own. Four jobs I’ve had in my life Editing room assistant (helping people...
Hybrid Backpack – The All Purpose Bicycle Carrier
The Hybrid Backpack is a product designed to help you carry odd-sized items on your bicycle without having to transport them in a backpack, pannier or trailer. The idea here is that by carrying large items on the back of...
The Village Of Arrow Rock: A National Historic Landmark
The tiny village of Arrow Rock is located 13 miles north of I-70 on Hwy 41 in Saline County, Missouri. Due to its historical significance, the entire village has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The tiny town...
Adventure Monkey Magazine: Cycle Touring In Albania
Have you got an Adventure Monkey inside you? Eric Benjamin is a Kansas cyclist and extremely talented photographer who runs the Adventure Monkey website and is the creator of Advenutre Monkey magazine – both of which...
Backtracking On The Katy Trail
After our first day on the Katy Trail, Josh and I knew that if we were ever going to ride across the state of Missouri, we were really going to have to pick up the pace. The previous day we had traveled just over twenty miles,...
Cycling The Katy Trail: Missouri’s Famous Rail Trail
When day three rolled around, Josh Miller and I loaded our bikes into the car and drove thirty minutes south to the town of Sedalia. There, we assembled our rigs and prepared ourselves for the 5-day ride across Missouri on...
Using Your Bike Tour To Seek Out Memorable Travel Moments
Tomorrow is the 4th of July, a huge day of celebration here in the United States when nearly every city in the country shoots a storm of fireworks up into the air in celebration of our nation’s independence. To tell...
