Month: January 2023
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The Lightest Touring Bike! – Carbon Touring Bikes
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If you know anything about touring bikes. It is that they are considerably heavy when compared to other bikes like most gravel bikes. Which are merging the line between road riding and adventure riding! However a more traditional touring bike is made to be so robust that it can stand…
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Best Portable Solar Panels For Camping and Bike Touring
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Solar panels can be a great addition to any bike touring gear list and make a convenient camping companion. Allowing you do be essentially off the grid, and be up in the mountains charging your devices, to continue to get you on your way. But it is not all sunshine…
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Carbon Fat Bikes – Ultimate List Of The Lightest Fat Bikes
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So you want a fat bike? but not only that it has to be lighter than a touring bike or comparable to a standard gravel bike? So you can throw it around trail bends and shred! Most of the downsides that come with fat bikes is with “how harder” they…
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Cycling Japan – Ultimate Guide To Bikepacking and Cycle Touring Japan
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Why Cycle Japan? So you want to cycle tour Japan? Well it must be stated that it is one of my personal favourite locations for a bicycle tour. Beautiful scenery, clean streets, highly advanced technology and infrastructure, humble and friendly locals, well maintained and pathed roads. Truely a cycle tourers…
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Bar End Shifters And Friction Shifters – Everything You Need To Know
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So you’ve time travelled back to the 1980s and all the bikes have friction shifters and you have no idea how to ride them? No? Just going on a lovely long touring adventure and want hassle free, low maintenance shifting? Yes! We are going to look into these classic pieces…
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The 20 Best Budget Touring Bikes Under $1,000
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Are you interested in bicycle touring and maybe looking for your first touring bike, but don’t want to break the bank? These bikes listed below are great bikes for beginners and people just getting started in cycle travel. When I was looking a my first touring bike to purchase I…
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Brooks vs Selle Anatomica! Which Is The Best Saddle?
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Both of these very popular bike saddles earned a spot on the list in this article I wrote about some of the best bike touring saddles. Both Brooks and Selle Anatomica are great saddles that would both make the perfect choice. But which of the two comes out on top when…
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Fat Bike Front Suspension – Is It Necessary? Fat Bike Suspension Fork Options
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So is it really necessary? Front suspension on a already supple fat bike. Yes that right. As most say the fat tires help absorb most the vibrations and bumps on the trail. It is more common to ride a fully rigid fat bike. But there are some out there who…
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Ortlieb Back Roller Classic Review – 10,000+ Km, The Best Bike Panniers?
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Ortlieb is an industry standard brand when it comes to bike touring. They make some quality leading products. For my first year of bike touring I made the mistake in not taking the plunge and investing in some of their quality panniers. Instead spending like $30 on a set of…
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Randonneur Bags and Racks
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I must say I am a sucker for bike bags! The idea of writing this article of the best rando bags and yes racks too, got me so excited. But rando bags are such a useful thing to come out of the randonneur scene. When it comes to rando bags,…