Posts in category Cycling

How a #LCHF lifestyle changed my life...

The merits of a Low Carb Healthy Fat diet for cycle touring. Note 1 : If you’re totally convinced that you need carbs for sport and blindly follow government guide lines on diet and ” Science” and have no intentions of entertaining a different theory, you may want to quickly leave and save yourself some time. If you have Ly [...]

Bike packing the Scottish Borders

Advertised as a challenging 3 day ride (+/- 240km/ 5000m climbing). I’ve been eager to try The Capital trail route since hearing about it. By starting in Berwick upon Tweed I was also able to add a couple of days and included an option to do the “Peebles loop” if I had time left over. By combining my traveling days straight [...]

48 hour Ride eat sleep challenge

Ever sat in the office and ask yourself ” How far could I cycle this weekend and be home for dinner on Sunday?” Well I have, and often. I’m smack bang in the middle of a busy summer at work, sick of looking at smelly noisy planes, not cycling enough (mainly due to a recent knee infection) not camping enough and desperately m [...]

Transandalucia Pt1 (Seville-Cadiz)

It was a cool sunny morning in Seville, after a quick ride around the sights I was eager to get cracking. The decision a fortnight earlier to do my first bike-packing trip in Spain had brought with it a lot of last minute packing stress and making my own frame bags had taken much more time than I’d hoped. The constant packing and re-pac [...]

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

A year later than planned I once again teamed up with TravellingTwo point 5 and Stijn for an Easter weekend of cycling the VennBahn. The VennBahn is a converted railway line running from Aachen in Germany to Troisvierges in Luxemburg via Belgium. The route is about 125km and apart from a couple of small hills and some detours its almost flat, [...]

Winter Cycling in Canada

December 2013 I took the next step in my winter cycle touring experiment by heading to Canada to attempt to cycle the Trans Labrador highway. The Trans Lab claims to be one of the longest stretches of road in Canada without services. This winter had the coldest December in more than 10 years, bringing with it extreme winds and temperatures [...]

Bikes : Red

Now that I’ve spent about 1500km touring, Bikepacking and mountain biking with Red I think its fair to make an initial assessment of the choices I made and share my thought processes for this self build. To read about how I originally ” rescued” the frame that would become Red click >here< Aim of the project: After se [...]

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 [...]

The confession : Icenutz pt 2

So everyone thought I was nutz to go cycling in Northern Europe last winter. So now the confession, that was infact just a test ride for bigger things….. Three weeks in Northern Scandanavia with shops and towns most days and a cycling partner was a nice “safe” way to learn the lessons needed to be learned for extreme winter [...]

The genius of Brompton touring

Cycle touring with a Brompton : Yes you can! Back in January I invested in a second hand Brompton to fill in the gaps between public transport now that I no longer own a money slurping car. Within hours of riding it I found myself wondering if I can go cycle touring on a folding bike. It made perfect sense to me, cycle around the nice spots, [...]

Winter cycle touring in the Scandanav...

As a contrast to the heat of Africa my first trip post my big ride across Africa was to Lapland during winter. Cycling and camping at temperatures between -5 and -30 proved to be quite a challenge. Winter cycling in Lapland pt I During January and February 2013 I teamed up with Helen Lloyd of Helenstakeon.com to spend three weeks cycling be [...]