Touring links

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  • Tour of Gondwana – Michael Ayers’ touring site.  “A global bicycle journey with a southern disposition.”
  • Crazy Guy on a Bike is a good place to read about other peoples’ adventures. I often use it as a way of researching new places where I’m planning to ride. It’s easy to get distracted and spend a lot of time there.
  • Bicycle Touring 101 – Jamie Noble’s site
  • The phred e-mail list says about itself: “Common topics of discussion are how to select a touring bicycle, appropriate components and gearing for touring, carrying gear, camping gear, touring routes and locations, reports of previous tours, and everything else related to bicycle touring. Anyone who is an experienced bicycle tourist or interested in bicycle touring (from credit card touring to fully loaded expedition touring) is welcome here.”
  • Jim Foreman came to touring relatively late in life. His web site has stories not only about his tours, but about his many previous lives, too. I’ve marked the locations of some of his stories on my maps in case I ever do a ride to Oklahoma or the Texas panhandle.
  • The Oklahoma Bicycle Society is a touring club with a website which contains touring stories, tips and many maps for local rides as well as cross state routes. Some of its members are major contributors to the phred e-mail list.
  • The Geezers is a mature group of Oklahoma Bicycle Society riders who stage their own tours twice a year. There are no club officers, membership dues, official meetings or secret handshakes, just a bunch of Geezers who get together to ride bicycles and have fun (which they certainly do at their survivors parties after each tour.)
  • It’s difficult to describe Sheldon Brown with a one-liner, or even a brief paragraph.
  • The next time I go riding in Wisconsin, I’ll try to get the Wisconsin State Bike Maps. In 2004 I didn’t learn where to get them until my tour was almost over. But some similar county maps are on line at this site.
  • Hoosier Rails to Trails Council. I’m not a huge fan of rails-to-trails or other multi-use trail systems. They don’t usually take me where I want to go, and a lot of them are boring. Sometimes they are the result of an attempt to ghettoize bicycle traffic. But they are often good for family recreation, and in some places they are a great alternative to riding on the roads.
  • Peter White Cycles in Hillsborough, NH. Peter tries to be a curmudgeon, but he’s not nearly as good at that as he is at wheelbuilding. I bought a Schmidt Dynamo hub and E6 light from him in 2004, and no longer have to worry about racing the sunset to my campsite. I do a lot of commuting after dark with it, too. Peter also sells other touring equipment, some of which is not easy to find in the U.S.
  • John Cherry’s Project Bike Shop near West Lafayette, IN. On tour through Lafayette in May 2001 I looked in the phonebook for a bike shop to repair some spokes that were broken — again. John Cherry took care of me immediately and I had no more trouble with my wheel for several years. He no longer has a storefront, but has a new place near some important historical sites.
  • Weather Underground’s radar maps are a great aide in dodging rainstorms. Sometimes I can use the wind forecasts to make minor route changes to get the breezes to work in my favor. (It doesn’t work nearly often enough.)
  • Cycling Across Canada: Journals and Resources
  • GPS Cycling Tours – Erasmo Perez’s blog
  • Ken Kifer’s web – The late Ken Kifer’s touring page, preserved
  • Le vélo • Le cyclotourisme – Michael Gagnon’s web
  • Travel with Bicycles
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