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Cycle touring and bikepacking news and blogs: long-distance routes, gear, bikes on trains and planes, and ride reports from publishers worldwide.
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The Cycle Touring Life
You Don't Have to Cross Canada
Skip the cross-Canada epic. The Maritime bike touring loop you can actually ride this summer: Cabot Trail, Bay of Fundy, the Acadian shore and PEI's Confederation Trail.
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CYCLINGABOUT
No Derailleur, No Cassette: Are eCVT Drivetrains the Future of eBike Tech?
Let's dive into how eCVT drivetrains work, their advantages and disadvantages, and the companies pushing this innovation forward.
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CYCLINGABOUT
Rohloff E-14 SOLO Finally Brings Electronic Shifting to Rohloff Hubs
Rohloff has finally released an electronic shifting system for its legendary 14-speed internal gear hub.
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Adventure Cycling Association
Picture This
On July 23, 1982, Adventure Cycling cofounder Greg Siple shot a black-and-white portrait of Laura Orton. A touring cyclist from Albion, Michigan, Orton had stopped by Adventure Cycling’s Missoula offi…
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Adventure Cycling Association
The 17th Annual Bicycle Travel Photo Contest
From salt flats to summit passes, our community captured the moments that make bike travel unforgettable. But that doesn't mean that, when we look back on this year's winners in another 50 years, they…
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The Cycle Touring Life
The Cheapest Day of Your Life
A full day of cycle touring, itemized at eighteen euros, and what the cheapest day of your life quietly teaches you about every dollar you spend back home.
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Bicycle Touring Pro
Bicycle Handlebars Explained: Pros & Cons of Every Handlebar Type
Grip, release, shuffle, grip, release, drop. Bike touring is an endurance test as much as an adventure. Our butts, knees and hands support us as we focus on the glorious scenery. For comfort, we dial…
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The Cycle Touring Life
Nobody to Turn To
What solo cycle touring really gives you, and the quiet loneliness you pay for it. An honest look at riding alone, from a high road on the spine of Portugal.
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The Cycle Touring Life
You're Eating Wrong
On a long bike tour your body rewrites its own fuel rules. Why "calories in, calories out" fails at 4,000 a day, and how to read your cravings on the road.
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Sunhats and Chardonnay
What It Feels Like to Be Hit While Cycling
A firsthand account of impact, survival, and the quiet risks cyclists accept every day.
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The Cycle Touring Life
How I Tricked My Wife Into Bike Touring
The bike route engineered to convert non-cyclists. Four hundred kilometres, London to Paris, two countries, one ferry, and the wife who didn't think she could.
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The Cycle Touring Life
The Weight You Can't Weigh
Six days on a loaded touring bike, and what the rhythm of pedalling actually does to mental cargo.
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The Cycle Touring Life
The Tour You Don’t Post: A Case for the Private Adventure
What happens on a bike tour with no phone, no photos, no audience? The case for a fully private adventure, and what changes when you stop performing.
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Tom's Bike Trip
Tom’s Bike Trip Continues (UK Edition)
An update for readers wondering why this blog suddenly went silent about 18 months ago. No, I didn’t receive a life-changing diagnosis. No, I’m not having a mid-life crisis (I had it at 23). No, I did…
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The Cycle Touring Life
The Big Trip Delusion
Why most men who plan the Tour Divide never go. The sub-24-hour overnighter is the actual practice of bikepacking, and the Big Trip is what you tell yourself instead.
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The Cycle Touring Life
I Almost Quit at Mile 65. Here's What My Brain Said.
A real-time transcript of the internal monologue every touring cyclist has between mile fifty and the tent. The bargaining. The food fantasies. The Pop-Tart.
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Bikepacking Northern Nevada
Where are you from?
The influence of being a Third Culture Kid on adventure travel