Somebody Answered. 30,000km Later, It Was Us.
A photo of two loaded bikes reached thousands of people. One driveway answered. On algorithms, hospitality, and what still can't be automated in bike touring.
The Cycle Touring Life
The Cycle Touring Life blends hands-on touring advice with the deeper philosophy of the road, helping you ride farther, steadier, and more intentionally.
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You Can't Fix a Bicycle From a Position of Dignity
The nightly bike check, the roadside repair, and why caring for the machine that carries you is the closest thing a touring cyclist has to prayer.
Becoming No One
Nobody on a bike tour asks what you do for a living. What happens to your identity when your name, your work, and your history stay home? Notes from a loaded Maritimes ride.
Your Body Is the Only Gear That Matters
Thirty years of cycle touring and no derailleur ever ended a ride. Knees did. Sleep did. How to read your body's four gauges on a long bike tour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Weight You Can't Weigh
Six days on a loaded touring bike, and what the rhythm of pedalling actually does to mental cargo.