Review Your Touring Bicycle And Earn $50 USD
Touring bike reviews are a big part of what I do here at BicycleTouringPro.com. My reviews of the Fuji Touring and Bike Friday New World Tourist, for example, are two of the most popular articles on this entire website. However,...
Touring Bike Buyers Be Warned: There’s A Difference Between Traditional & Ultra-Lite Touring Bicycles
It’s quite common for bicycle manufacturers and local bike shops alike to purposely blur the lines between “traditional” and “ultra-lite touring bicycles.” Their reasoning, of course, is simple:...
Bike Switzerland: Challenge Tour – VIDEO GUIDE
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to ride a bicycle across Switzerland, then you have to watch the video above, in which John Klemme, owner of the European tour company, Bike Switzerland, guides you through...
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...
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,...
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...
Winner Of The Adventure Cycling Map Set Announced
Earlier this month I teamed up with the Adventure Cycling Association and together we decided to give away a set of maps for one of AC’s North American bicycle touring routes. To enter to win the free map set, all...
