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Solo adventure cyclist (part time) : After the extreme trips in recent years where I’ve lived adventure to the bone and cycled/camped in all weather from -45 to +45, touring over 30,000km on 4 continents. Its time to take a step back towards “normal” life. For the coming years I plan to work on my career, new business and all those other boring things we’re supposed to do in life.

Hopefully with some short holidays in Europe (Brompton or Bikepacking), weekend escapes and 5,000km of cycle commuting per year I can still keep my sanity.

The last 5 years have been a blast. They’ve been the most fun and rewarding years of my life. I’ve met some amazing people and got to know myself, our world and the wonderful people that live in it much better. I’m happy to say I’m the only person I know who has cleaned out their bucket list and much, much more. But at the moment I no longer get a warm glow from trip planning, its starting to feel more like running away than a magical adventure so its obviously time to slow things down for a while. Thanks everyone for your interest and support in my life’s journey, and I hope yours can be just as rewarding.

Shane

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Packing list 3 weeks bikepacking in S...

Just a couple of days until I fly to Spain to cycle about 1200km (3 weeks) of the Trans-Andalusia mountainbike trail. This is my provisional packing list, based on wild camping down to about freezing point. List is excluding on bike cloths 1. Front roll/harness (3.1kg) : Msr Hubba 1p tent, Thermarest neo air mattress, pillow, g-tex jacket. 2 [...]

Make your own gear (MYOG) Bikepacking...

With the recent purchase and building of my new bike which is intended to be a mountainbike/ bikepacking monster. It was time to get serious about making my own gear. This is how my first frame bag turned out. So, how do you make a bike packing frame bag? Step 1: Google DIY/Homemade/MYOG bikepacking frame bag. See how other people did, get i [...]

Dragons, bicycles and life

When I recently mentioned on a forum that I’d “rescued” the frame for my new bike someone wrote: ” I think most of us are still reeling from the fact such a thing of beauty could in any way be rescued… it’s like the start of a fairy story, we want to know more, were there dragons involved…” So [...]

An unlikely journey : Visiting ”...

I’d booked the Ijmuiden-Newcastle ferry a week earlier and hadn’t been disappointed by the price. After another summer season working more than I’d like to I was ready to hit the road again. Lacking inspiration, funds and interest for a far away or long trip I went for something closer to home and the fact I hadn’t vis [...]

The Vennbahn by Brompton

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Winter Cycling in Canada

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‘The Canadian’ A journey ...

I’ve always found something strangely romantic about long distance train journeys, slowly meandering across continents in a classic form of mass public transport. Trains bring a touch of class, comfort, space and a social aspect long lost in the modern world of cheap, fast, anti-social cattle transport we call aviation. I arrived on t [...]

Bikes : Red

Details coming soon : In the mean time feel free to read the how Red was rescued >here

Bikes : Brompton

On my return from cycle touring in Africa I didn’t have enough cash lying around to buy a car, and more importantly I didn’t want one. Sadly the public transport where I live is awful and to take Mr Hyde on a train costs €6 per day. So I needed a problem solver. Enter my second hand Brompton Initially it was just meant as a means [...]

Packing list for 10 weeks winter cycl...

So, with the lessons learned during the trip last winter and almost a year to think about this trip, here’s my new and improved gear list for 10 weeks cycling and camping at between -15 and -40. a-d Home made cooking box for efficient snow melting and cooking. Stove: Optimus nova plus incl spare pump + 2x XL fuel bottles MSR Titan p [...]