Year: 2024

  • How This Vegan Cyclist Travels The World On $10 a Day

    How This Vegan Cyclist Travels The World On $10 a Day

    Welcome to Cycle Travel Overload, where we celebrate the spirit of adventure and the joy of exploring the world on two wheels. Today, I’m thrilled to share a special story that’s close to my heart. I recently reached out to Clotaire, a bikepacker whose passion for travel and unique lifestyle…

  • Best Hammock Sleeping Pads For Your Next Camping Adventure

    Best Hammock Sleeping Pads For Your Next Camping Adventure

    Hammock sleeping bags are a great addition to your hammock camping setup. For too long now, I have been using my general camping sleeping pad which is great for tent camping or sleeping under the stars. Oftentimes I have discovered from personal experience though that my sleeping pad slips out…

  • Wahoo Elemnt Roam Review & Buyers Guide

    Wahoo Elemnt Roam Review & Buyers Guide

    Ever since I got started in this wonderful world of bikepacking and exploring our beautiful planet by bike. I have been trying to figure out the best way to navigate it. After using my phone for some years. I finally went out and invested in a GPS or cycling computer.…

  • All About Dynamo Lights For Bikepacking and Touring

    All About Dynamo Lights For Bikepacking and Touring

    You’ve left work late, it’s raining, it’s dark you’re fumbling around finding your bike lights to find that you’ve forgotten to charge them, or even worse, they’ve been stolen. Not with dynamo lighting! We can’t guarantee you won’t still be leaving work late and in the dark, but you will…

  • All About Rohloff Hub For Touring and Bikepacking

    All About Rohloff Hub For Touring and Bikepacking

    Sick of bike maintenance slowing down your big trips? Tired of jerky, unpredictable gear changes? Dreaming about a smooth riding future? Let’s look at the Rohloff hub and see if it’s the answer you’re looking for. What is the Rohloff hub? Simply speaking, it’s an internal gear hub offering 14…

  • Gravel Bike Vs Mountain Bike – What Is The Difference?

    Gravel Bike Vs Mountain Bike – What Is The Difference?

    Let’s explore the key differences between the newly popular Gravel bike and the time old Mountain bike. Is there a difference? What is the difference? Which one should I get? To get a simple answer the clue is in their names. Gravel bikes are just that, they are good on…

  • Evil Chamois Hagar Gravel Bike First Look And Review

    Evil Chamois Hagar Gravel Bike First Look And Review

    A gravel bikes that is not your normal gravel bike! This bike has me so excited to talk to you about! Evil are coming at this with new eyes and have given us a gravel shredder, the Hagar! Most gravel bikes start with normal road bike frame specs and adjust…

  • Best Bike Brands for Adventure Cycling, Gravel Grinding & Bikepacking

    Best Bike Brands for Adventure Cycling, Gravel Grinding & Bikepacking

    Adventure cycling has to be in my opinion the most exiting type of cycling! In this article we are going to breakdown some of the most popular bike brands in this niche. From bikepacking to touring and anything in between. When you buy a bike you want to make sure…

  • Top 5 MTB Trails Near Canberra With Gravel Grinding Options

    Top 5 MTB Trails Near Canberra With Gravel Grinding Options

    ACT, home of Australia’s capital city. ACT, home of Australia’s best mountain biking trails. If you’re into your mountain biking and you live in Australia, you’ve probably heard about the mountain biking trails around Canberra, ACT. They are some of the oldest purpose built trails in the country and many…

  • Top 5 MTB Trails Near Melbourne With Gravel Grinding

    Top 5 MTB Trails Near Melbourne With Gravel Grinding

    For this article in my ‘best mountain biking trails in Australia’ series I’m coming home to Melbourne. For those of you who don’t know, it’s the state capital of Victoria and we sit in the most southern tip of Australia before you get over to Tassie. I love living in…