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Welcome to Bicycle Touring Pro!
This website is your headquarters for bicycle touring information. Here you will find a ton of information on bicycle touring; stories and photos from my own world travels, products and services I recommend for life on the road; and a ton of additional content dealing with how to plan, prepare for, and execute your very own global cycling adventures. New articles, videos and photos are added to the site every week, in addition to all of the other great content that is shared on Facebook and Twitter.
What Is Bicycle Touring Pro?
BicycleTouringPro.com is a website for people around the world who are interested in bicycle touring and world travel. Whether you are searching for your perfect touring bike, planning to take a guided bicycle tour, an ultra-lite cycling adventure, or a long-distance bicycle tour of any kind, there is something here at Bicycle Touring Pro just for you!
You will also find a repository of useful articles, interviews, and videos about traveling the world by bike.
How I Became A Full-Time Bicycle Traveler
My name is Darren Alff… and in the year 2001, shortly after graduating from high school, I mounted my father’s dusty old mountain bike and slowly pedaled my way down the Coast of California – from Oregon to Mexico. I was seventeen years old at the time and didn’t know a thing about “bicycle touring,” but I made it to my destination… and that first trip by bike changed my life forever.
That first trip taught me a lot – both about myself and the world in which we live. Since that time, I have gained extensive experience as a long-distance bicycle traveler and I have spent the last ten years learning about the world from the seat of my bike.
I started BicycleTouringPro.com in late 2007 after one of my old college roommates called me up and told me that he was planning his first long-distance bicycle tour. For years I had been trying to get him to join me on my cycling adventures, but I could never make it happen. But then, several years later, the thought of going on a bike tour suddenly struck him as an appealing venture… and he called the only person he knew who had actually done it!
I started BicycleTouringPro.com with the intention of helping this particular friend plan his first bike trip. I didn’t really think anyone else would care to read what I had to say. But just a month or two after the site was started, the readership took off and I’ve been hustling like crazy ever since to make BicycleTouringPro.com into THE BEST resource available for modern bicycle travelers.
Why The Site Is Called “Bicycle Touring Pro”
A lot of people think the name, Bicycle Touring Pro, is a name I gave myself as some sort of bicycle touring expert, but that’s not really the case. The name came about because I told myself all through college that my ideal job would be being able to ride my bike, travel the world, and help others make their dreams come true. So, when I went about naming the site, it was an aspirational sort of name – a kind of constant reminder of who I one-day wanted to become – a Professional Bicycle Traveler.
Since that time, I have, in many ways, turned into a “Bicycle Touring Pro.” I now work from home or on the road and I spend most of my days skiing, biking, hiking, or doing just about anything I please. My life at home in the United States is almost exactly the same as it is when I am out traveling with my bike. I run the website here at BicycleTouringPro.com and explore the world around me under my own human power.
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