Bike Doctor iPhone App – Learn Bicycle Repair

Need to know how to repair your bike or make a necessary adjustment? Get the Bike Doctor app on your iPhone or iPod Touch! The Bike Doctor application is a new app developed by Andreas Kambanis (from the London Cyclist website) and Ron Forrester (of Cychosis App). The application, which costs a measly $4.99 is [...]

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 decided to put more effort into the photographs I take while on my travels. In order to help me achieve a new [...]

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 about anywhere in the world. For the past five years, I too have been making a living off the Internet… [...]

The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint For The Amazon Kindle

You’ve heard of “The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint” before right? The “Blueprint” is my eBook about modern bicycle touring. It’s a text that took me over two years to create and contains all of my secrets for successfully pulling off a long-distance bicycle tour and for feeling at home while out on the road.You can read [...]

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 [...]

Eastern Europe Animated Bicycle Tour Documentary – An Interview With The Filmmaker

20-year-old Josh Wedlake and three friends spent a month slowly pedaling their way by bike from Berlin to Istanbul. After the trip was over, Josh sat down at his computer and for four entire months worked to create an animated film about his cycling expedition through Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Josh [...]

Earth Days – A Documentary Film About The Environmental Movement

For a limited time, you can watch Earth Days for free on the PBS website. Click here to view the film NOW! The problem with environmentalism is that it tricks people into believing that in order to make change in the world, you (as the individual) need to have less, be less, do less and [...]

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 easy email and Internet sharing. But the question is: Is the Flip Mino HD Video [...]

WeFollow.com Ranks Bicycle Touring Pro As #1

Did you know that in addition to all the free content I post here on BicycleTouringPro.com, I also maintain an active Twitter account, which has just recently been named the highest ranked, most followed, and most influential “bicycle touring” Twitter acount in the world! WeFollow.com is an online directory that lists the highest ranked Twitter [...]

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); [...]

How To Learn A Language Without Classes Or Travel

If you are anything like me, you’ve always wanted to learn a new language, but you want to do it without sitting in a boring old classroom or traveling half-way around the world in order to immerse yourself in the language for months on end. Learning a language from home would be nice… if only [...]

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” you might expect these little electronic “blades” to be nothing more than a children’s today. However, you’d be surprised to learn just [...]