How Much Does It Cost To Gear Up For A Bicycle Tour?
Bicycle touring can be an extremely inexpensive means of transportation, holiday, fun and more! But purchasing all the gear you need in order to conduct a long-distance bicycle tour can be a major drain on your bank account. The...
Pentax Optio W90 – Waterproof Digital Camera Review
The Pentax Optio W90 is a 12.1 megapixel camera with a 5x Wide Angle Zoom and a 2.7-Inch LCD screen. The W90 is a waterproof, dust-proof, cold-proof, bump-proof digital camera designed for people who want a compact camera...
Do Not Buy The Nikon Coolpix S4000 Digital Camera
A couple weeks ago I wrote an article about the new digital camera (a Nikon Coolpix S4000) and video editing software (Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD) I purchased for my upcoming trip to South America. At the time, I was super...
Video Cameras And Editing Software
I’m getting ready to travel to South America in the next few weeks and in preparation for my trip I’ve just recently purchased a new digital video camera and some new editing software for my computer, which will...
Camera Equipment For Photographing Your Travels
For years I’ve been using a simple point and shoot camera to photograph my travels. But after numerous recent requests to write and produce articles for magazines, newspapers and other online publications, I’ve...
25 Web-Based Services You Can Use To Work From Anywhere In The World
More and more people nowadays are making a living online. Laptops, netbooks, cell phones, tablets and other mobile or hand-held devices are allowing a new generation of enterprising entrepreneurs to work from home or just...
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...
Flip Mino HD Video Camera (60 Minutes): Product Review
The Flip Mino HD Video Camera is a small cell-phone sized camera that shoots video in high definition, records to a 4 GB built-in memory, comes in an unlimited number of colors and designs, and outputs to your computer for...
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...
Cateye HL-MC200 Bicycle Headlight
The Cateye HL-MC200 Bicycle Headlight has been in my arsenal of bike gear since my freshman year of college (over 7 years ago). Sadly, it is one of the worst bike lights I have ever encountered and certainly not a product...
Hokey Spokes: Unique Bicycle Lights Product Review
Hokey Spokes are transparent computerized “blades” that attach to your bicycle spokes and spin as you ride to create an impressive array of design images and text. With a name like “Hokey Spokes”...
Useless Gear: Coming Home With What You Really Need
How you start a trip and how you finish are two completely different things. At the beginning of a long distance bike tour, you have the urge to pack as much on your bike as you possibly can. But as time goes by and the miles/kilometers...
Your Complete Bicycle Touring Gear Checklist
In response to my recent post on the 10 Important Items You Should Have, But Might Not Think Of Bringing On Your Bike Tour, BicycleTouringPro.com reader, Jim Dirlam sent me a checklist that he created to help bicycle travelers...
2 Free Gigabytes Of Backup With Mozy.com
Has your computer’s hard drive ever crashed? Well, mine has… and it’s a horrible experience. Fortunately, there are a number of new Internet based backup services that automatically backup the content of...
