Want To Be Featured On Bicycle Touring Pro?

The bicycle touring season is coming up fast and because so many new riders are in the process of planning and preparing for their trips, I’d like to try something new here at BicycleTouringPro.com that will (hopefully) be beneficial to everyone involved.

Here’s What I Want To Do:

There are a number of people planning trips for this coming spring, summer and fall. To both inspire and assist these people as they plan and prepare for their tours, I’d like to highlight some of the amazing bicycle travelers who have already gone on tours and share the lessons these people learned from their past adventures with some of the newer readers here at BicycleTouringPro.

What I’m thinking is that maybe once a week I would feature a new rider or tour here on the site. This wouldn’t be a boring tour account or tedious turn by turn details of where to go and what to see, but instead,  a series of questions and answers, in which the featured rider would discuss his or her tour, give some advice for others planning a similar adventure, and then the article would conclude with questions and comments from you (the readers).

The purpose for this would be three-fold:

1) By featuring people who have already gone on bicycle tours, bicycle travelers who are just starting out get to learn about new and exciting places that they may have never considered venturing to otherwise.

2) You, the reader, get to learn something from someone (besides myself) who has already experienced what bicycle touring is like and you will pick up valuable lessons from these individuals and their stories.

3) And finally, the featured rider gets some recognition for his or her accomplishments.

It’s sounds like a win-win-win sort of arrangement to me. So, what do you think?

If It Sounds Good To You, Here’s How I’d Like To Start:

What I’d like to do is start by finding a few people to feature on the site. If you are interested in being featured, or you know someone who would be a good candidate, please keep reading.

In order to be selected, you must have gone on a bicycle tour at some point in the past.  The more recent the tour, the better. It doesn’t matter how long your trip was or where exactly you went. What’s most important is that you went on a bicycle tour and you learned something along the way.

If you fit this requirement and you would like to be featured on BicycleTouringPro.com, send me an email and in 4-5 sentences tell me:

1)  Your name
2)  Your age (now and at the time of the tour)
3)  Where you live
4)  Where you went on your bike tour
5)  What makes you and your bicycle trip different/exciting/noteworthy?
6)  What did you learn from your travels?

Finally, if you have a website, be sure to include a link to the site in your email. If you have photos from your tour, be sure to mention this as well.

Once you’ve done that, send your email to:

If you want to attach a photo or two, that would be fine.

I don’t know how many emails I will receive, but I’m guessing it will be a lot… so be patient with me as I sort through them all.

After a week or so I will have picked a few individuals that I’d like to feature and I will contact those people privately via email. Not everyone will be featured, so please don’t be upset with me if I don’t pick you.

Once I’ve selected the few individuals I’d like to feature, I will work with those people to produce the content for the articles.

If you are selected, you will be asked to answer a short series of questions related to your tour and email your answers to those questions back to me in a timely manner along with any photos, links, and/or videos you’d like to be included with your article.

After that, I’ll edit the content, post it on the site, and share the information with the community here at BicycleTouringPro.

Sound good? Great!

But Here’s My Word Of Warning

For a long time now I’ve resisted featuring other people’s tour accounts on BicycleTouringPro.com. I’ve done this for two reasons:

1) There are other websites devoted to such journals (See CrazyGuyOnABike.com)

2) And secondly, I find that reading tour accounts is usually pretty boring.

Since starting BicycleTouringPro.com, I’ve tried to keep this site informative. I’ve tried to keep the articles “how to” oriented. And most importantly, I’ve tried to focus the articles as much as possible on helping you, the reader, plan, prepare for, and execute your own bicycle tour.

How Will These New Feature Tour Accounts Be Different?

The way I see these new featured tour accounts is that while a small portion of the article will be about who the rider is and where he or she went on their trip, the major focus of these articles will be on helping you (the reader) learn from these experienced cyclists so that when you get out on your own bicycle tour, you will know what to pack, how to plan, how much to budget, what to expect, etc, etc, etc.

My main goal here is to focus on YOU and to help YOU make your bicycle touring dreams come true!

Let’s Do It!!!

So that’s it! If you are interested in being featured, send me an email. If you know someone who should be featured, please direct them to this page. And if you have any ideas, suggestions, and/or comments about this idea, please leave your remarks in the “comments” section below.

Stay tuned for our first featured tour account in the weeks to come! (Be sure not to miss it by subscribing to the RSS feed now)

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