Touring Bikes, A 20% Discount & My Park City Condo

Three quick announcements: 1. Get a 20% Discount On “The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint” The London Cyclist did an awesome write up on my eBook, “The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint“. If you haven’t read it already, please do so now. As a way of saying thanks to Andreas at the London Cyclist website for featuring my eBook [...]

Learn About Touring Bicycles And Get 2 Free Bonus Gifts

A few weeks ago I released a new eBook titled, “The Essential Guide To Touring Bicycles.” In the book, I take you by the hand and teach you about what to look for in a quality touring bike. I then introduce you to more than 200 different types of touring bike models made in countries [...]

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… because when it comes to bicycle touring, the bicycle you ride is pretty [...]

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 going to be a book that is designed to help you learn about touring bikes and to help you [...]

The Sierra Schwinn – My First Bike

What do you remember about your first bicycle? My first bike was a silver BMX bike that I rode to school when I was in fifth and sixth grade. My next door neighbor and best friend, Matt Bockal, had a matching bike and we thought we were pretty darn cool because we could jump off [...]

Diagram Of A Traditional Touring Bicycle

The diagram below shows the basic parts of a traditional touring bicycle.

Katy Trail Packing List

You don’t have to travel around the world or live on the road for months on end to call yourself a bicycle traveler. Conducting short trips by bike in your local area (or even in your home country) is a great way to get out and experience the joys of bicycle travel. Yesterday I flew [...]

Folding & Coupled Bicycles Made For Touring

Are you looking for a touring bicycle capable of folding up for easy travel on planes, trains, boats, buses and automobiles? If so, you gotta check out this list of folding and coupled bicycles capable of short and long-distance bicycle travel. All of these bikes are capable of carrying a front and rear rack – [...]

181 Free Articles About Bicycle Touring, World Travel And Lifestyle Design

2009 was one hell of a year! At this time last year I was emerging from my apartment in downtown Luzern, Switzerland and celebrating the first of what would become 254 days of bike travel in 16 different European countries. Since that time, I have covered thousands of miles on my bicycle (and on foot); [...]

Mountain Bicycles Made For Bike Touring Around The World

The following is a list of touring bikes with 26 inch wheels. The biggest advantage of a touring bike with 26″ wheels vs. 700c wheels is that 26 inch wheels are easier to repair and find replacement parts for no matter where you are in the world. 700c wheels can typically only be found in [...]

An Extensive Guide To Bike Tour Planning

In the summer of 2008 I traveled with my new Bike Friday folding bicycle and spent 8 days on the island of Aruba. Around this time I produced the following article (which is the first part of a three part series on my trip to Aruba, which I never published… until now) about how I [...]

21Bikes.com – A New Website For You And Your Bicycle

You may have figured it out by now, but I like to make stuff. I’ve been working on Bicycle Touring Pro for the past two years and slowly building it from a site read only by my friends and family to one of the top bicycle touring sites on the Web. In addition, I’ve written [...]