Bike Touring News

Empowering The Bicycle Traveler

Touring Bicycle Lights

Inevitably, if you are traveling by bicycle, you will get caught in the dark. Whether you are just getting an early start to meet the day’s mileage goal, or you get lost looking for that camp site. Either way you will wish you had a reliable, efficient and powerful light source. One on the front Read More

Bicycle Touring Tires

This is literally where the rubber meets the road. It’s sort of a boring topic but tire problems could end a bicycle tour quicker than almost anything I can think of. And a flat tire is probably the most likely mechanical repair a traveling bicycler will need to master. Luckily, there are many very good Read More

The Touring Bicycle – Part 2

Forget all the mumbo jumbo the bike fitters, who will charge upwards of $200.00 to adjust your saddle and handlebars, spout about performance and “your game”. Your game is all day comfort.

The Touring Bicycle

There are as many ideas about what a touring bicycle should be as there are touring bicyclists. Especially when it comes to frame materials. There are many , many articles and opinions about frame materials, and that’s a tar baby with which I’m not willing to wrestle.

Planning A Bike Touring Route

Deciding where to go on your bicycle touring adventure and planning the route is an enjoyable part of the experience. Maybe there’s a part of the country or world you have always wanted to visit, and doing it on a bike can be a profound pleasure. But…how does one know what the roads are like?…Is Read More