Category: Bike travel
While others her age are just getting used to life after high school, Erin Nelson is taking on the world on her bicycle.
At 18, she left her home in Turlock, California, in November 2010 and pedaled across the US, Europe and Asia on an around-the-world bicycle trip that now finds her in China. [See her video below.]
Why an around-the-world bike tour? She wrote an early blog about some many people living lives of contentment:
“I don't want to be happy being content. I want to be happy because I'm making the most out of my short life so when I die I don't have regrets ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/02/03/california-teen-wants-to-be-youngest-solo-global-bike-traveler/
A couple from Madison, Wisconsin, finished up a 17,000-mile Pan American bicycling adventure in Argentina a couple of weeks ago.
Meanwhile a couple from Tempe, Arizona, are waiting there to get their tandem out of customs to begin their journey north.
Alan Turnquist and Erin Syth, at left, arrived in Ushaia, the southern-most city in South America, in mid-December after traveling for 550 days from the Arctic Circle.
The Madison couple quit their jobs and drove to Canada's Northwest Territories …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/01/02/pan-american-tandem-bike-adventures-1-ends-1-waits-to-begin/
Where do we get the inspiration for a long-distance bicycle tour?
Englishman Anthony Watson didn't go any further than his morning cup of coffee.
Watson brewed his love of the bean into a full-blown bicycle expedition from England, through southern Europe and Turkey to the birthplace of the coffee plant, Ethiopia. He's sharing his adventures and discoveries for the past 7 1/2 months at his blog, Bean on a Bike.
While many touring bicyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/29/the-ultimate-blend-of-bicycle-travel-and-coffee-love/
The fact that Dejan Zafirov lost one leg and injured the other in a work accident hasn't stopped him from his goal of bicycling around the world.
The Macedonian cyclist rolled into San Francisco on Friday after completing a two-month cross-country ride on his fully loaded bicycle.
He already has toured on his bicycle in South America, Europe, and Asia. His tour across the US was launched to inspire his fellow countrymen and raise money for adaptive sports equipment at home through his Citizens Association Gaia.
Dejan rides his bicycle with a prosthetic right leg to compensate …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/15/world-traveling-bicyclist-overcomes-disabilities/
Chance encounter with kangaroo nearly derails attempt
A recumbent cyclist from British Columbia is submitting paperwork soon to document his bid as the new Guinness around-the-world record-holder.
Bruce Gordon completed the bicycle trip on Sept. 23 in 153 days, 10 days faster than current record-holder Vin Cox of Great Britain.
If Guinness World Records accepts his submission, Bruce points out that he'll establish a number of firsts among the small group of globe-girdling record holders:
He'll be the first to break the record on a recumbent; the first to break the record going in a East-to-West direction; and, at 48 years old when he started, he'll …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/10/24/bc-cyclist-challenges-around-the-world-record-on-recumbent/
Folks who help lighten the load for traveling bicyclists are recognized in this year's National Bicycle Travel Awards.
The Adventure Cycling Association announced the winners, based on nominations from the bicycling public.
They're people like Donn Olsen, left, who runs a bicycle bunkhouse. And Kevin Cashman, who created Apogee Adventures, an outfit that offers extreme trips for youths.
Jim's Bicycle Shop, owned by Jim Peters, in Cincinnati also received an award for helping cyclists preparing for long-distance travels, and Leslie Wills of Michigan received the Volunteer of the Year Award for her work on the U.S. Bicycle Route System.
“These folks do so much to make America a better, friendlier …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/10/19/bicycle-travelers-honor-people-who-help-them-down-the-road/
The proposed 50,000-mile network of bicycle byways called the US Bicycle Route System is getting a $100,000 boost.
The Adventure Cycling Association announced it has procured grants from four foundations to continue its work on the USBRS.
The nonprofit bike touring association has been coordinating efforts to create the bike route system that will connect common destinations for travelers, such as cities and national landmarks.
So far, volunteers and state highway staff in 41 states are working to bring the bicycle routes to life.
They're looking for the most bicycle-friendly roads …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/10/05/four-grants-support-u-s-bicycle-route-system/
A new bicycle touring magazine that collects the best bike travel stories and photos from across the globe is available just one click away.
The free and non-commercial “BicycleTraveler, An International Magazine on Bicycle Touring,” is a digital e-zine launched this month.
Using the work of the best bicycle writers and photographers, the magazine is published by experienced bike traveler Grace Johnson.
She and Paul Jeurissen have been traveling the globe for years on their bicycles, sharing their stories and photos at the blog “Bicycling around the world, In search of inspiring cycle images.”
The launch of the magazine itself is a lesson in what traveling bicyclists can accomplish while on the road. Grace writes ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/09/21/inaugural-issue-of-free-bicycletraveler-ezine-available-now/
On an overnight bike trip to the John Wayne Pioneer Trail last weekend, my biking buddy and I discovered that the newly reopened Snoqualmie Tunnel is drawing a lot of visitors.
Mostly they're day-trippers on bicycles, but some come by foot and at least a couple packed in with their llamas carrying their burdens.
The cyclists we talked with were taking advantage of the 18-mile downhill slope that greets them after they pass through the tunnel heading west.
They either came in groups and dropped off cars in Hyak and the Iron Horse Trail State Park lot in Cedar Falls, or contacted the shuttle service that carries passengers and bicycles to the Hyak trailhead …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/08/04/an-overnight-bike-trip-to-the-snoqualmie-tunnel-finds-a-popular-destination/
The ferries that cross Puget Sound can be a quick and affordable escape for bicyclists seeking to get away from the urban sprawl for a rural retreat.
Although these ferry rides are relatively short, I always feel that I've been deposited on a faraway shore with all my cares and worries left behind.
Last week, I rode down to the Seattle Ferry Terminal to begin an overnight bicycle tour to the Key Peninsula, a rather isolated part of lower Kitsap. How isolated? A barista I spoke with near the town of Home said she'd lived there 32 years and was still considered a newcomer.
I would only be gone 30 hours, but I felt like I'd been away from home for a week by the time I returned …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/07/28/overnighter-bicycle-tour-to-the-key-peninsula-from-seattle/
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