Is Bicycle Touring Dangerous?
There is an certain amount of risk any time you decide to venture from the safety of your own home. By participating in a bicycle tour (whether it be a short bike ride near your house or a trip that takes you to a foreign...
Cycling Iceland (VIDEO)
Dennis Koomen and his partner, Marijcke, spent fourteen days traveling around Southern Iceland on their bicycles. The video above offers a fantastic glimpse at what cycle touring in Iceland is all about. This video is of...
Cycle Touring In The American Southwest (VIDEO)
Danish bicycle traveler, Dennis Koomen, created a beautiful twenty-three minute video about his cycle touring exploits in the American Southwest. In the video, Dennis and his female companion travel from Las Vegas, Nevada...
Bike Tour Planning: Step 1 – Purchase Airline Tickets
It’s official! I’ve completed step number one of the planning process for my upcoming trip to Europe. I’ve booked my airline tickets and my plans for yet another bicycle touring adventure have suddenly...
What Exactly Is Bicycle Touring?
“Bicycle touring” (also referred to as “cycle touring, bike touring, bike travel, bicycle travel, and bike-packing”) is the act of riding a bicycle for days, weeks, months, or even years on end as...
Wild Video From The Streets Of Puno, Peru And The Fiesta De La Virgen De La Candelaria
The Fiesta de la Candelaria is a large South American street festival held each year in the month of February in honor of the Virgin of Candelaria – the patron saint of the city of Puno, Peru. I just happened to be...
Thunder & Sunshine: A Review Of Alastair Humphreys’ Second Book About His Bike Ride Around The World
It took young Alastair Humphreys more than four years to ride his bicycle around the world, during which time he crossed through five continents and pedaled more than 46,000 miles under his own power. Thunder & Sunshine...
Theme-Based Bike Tours – A Different Way To Travel
Have you ever thought about making your bicycle tour more than just a trip by bike by turning your two-wheeled adventure into a theme-based experience? Theme-based bicycle tours are a fun and interesting way to both travel...
Urban Downhill – Extreme Bicycle Racing
Urban downhill is an extreme form of downhill bicycle racing in which participants race through urban street environments not originally designed for bikes of any kind. Racing down steep flights of stairs, jumping over walls,...
The Top 10 Lessons I’ve Learned From Bicycle Touring
Bicycle touring has taught me a lot over the years. As a long-distance cyclist, I’ve learned how to ride a bike in all sorts of road and weather conditions; how to adjust, repair and rebuild a bicycle; and how to navigate...
Scotland Cycle Touring Video
BicycleTouringPro.com reader, Ryan Pasi, emailed me to share the above 43-minute video about his cycle tour through Scotland. This is what he has to say about it: During the summer my friend and I spent three weeks cycling...
The World’s Largest Collection Of Peruvian Street Art
One of the things I like most about traveling is seeing all the graffiti, murals, and other-such street art in the part of the world I happen to be visiting. During my recent 5-month trip through the South American country...
Join Me On A Bicycle Tour Across Switzerland
I’ve made a lot of great friends through my travels, my bike tours and my website here at BicycleTouringPro.com… but now it’s time that you and I meet up. Let’s do a bike ride together… in Switzerland!!! Join...
Steal Bikes And Get Beat – The Short Film
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently searching for and watching cycling-related movies, television shows and short films. This short film, titled “Beats and Bikes”, is about a guy who steals a beautiful...
