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Preparations For A European Bike Tour

One of the great things about being involved with Bike Touring News is the opportunity to live vicariously through the people we meet. Soon (next month), Asa will fly to Europe with his bike for a year long "literary pilgrimage". We got a chance to talk to him first about his planning and preparations. Find Read More

Asa thinks I'm an (expletive deleted) because I mock him for naming his bike Rocinante. But it's just because the Bike Hermit is a rough, illiterate man. And because I'm jealous of him. He is leaving next month for a year long bike touring trip in Europe. He is twenty something. Actually I am not Read More

Day One Tuesday, April 17 Boise to Celebration Park - Total distance; 43 miles I stare at the 22 oz. Rogue Dead Guy Ale for about five minutes before deciding not to buy it because I don't want to carry it the rest of the way to Celebration Park, and surely there will be be Read More

Taking it slow in the Hagerman Valley

As the Bike Hermit is deep into his remodeling project, Sky King jumped at the chance to do some great slow pedaling with the ladies.  This turned out to be a perfect way to enjoy spring weather, work in bird watching and be reminded that life is about the journey, not the destination. Lisa, Julie Read More

Black Sheep Bicycles at NAHBS 2012

Black Sheep Bicycles is located in Fort Collins Colorado and they have some mad skills with titanium. They brought two fat-bikes to NAHBS 2012 and these had some quite unique and well thought out details Read More