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Holiday Gift Guide: Best Bike Boxes For Your Favorite Travelers

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Contributor: BikeFlights Looking for a holiday gift for the traveling cyclists in your life? BikeFlights has you covered with their easy-to-pack Bike Shipping Boxes. Available in four sizes to fit most bikes, they’re great for shipping bikes and bike touring gear to and from your favorite adventurer’s next bike tour.  BikeFlights Bike Boxes come packed

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Stories from the Road

A Free Spirit

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Contributor: Andres Garcia I am from Colombia and have been traveling by bicycle for five years. My trip began in Argentina, where I studied musical composition. I decided to travel by bicycle without thinking about it; it was a decision that I had made at the moment, as I said, without thinking about it. I

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Old Dog Learns New Tricks

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Contributor: Melissa Rosaaen “Do you think we should pay attention to that sign?” Rick says just a little sarcastically as he pedals up next to me.  “What sign?”, I gasp, as I down-shift.  He laughs. “Oh, you know.  The huge one back there that reads, ‘Trail Closed’”. We had been training for our big ride

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Find Your Adventure Inspiration

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Contributor: Ayleen Crotty, Filmed by Bike We all know how much travel rejuvenates the soul and unites people across cultures, but for many of us our travel over the past few years has been somewhat limited. Even if you’re an experienced bike adventurer, getting back into the groove can be a bit of an uphill climb.

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Host's Corner

Warmshowers Visitors

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Contributor: Doris Tuck Three years ago, in June 2019, we hosted our first Warmshowers rider, Alistair, a doctor from London who was riding across the country.  He rode down the coast from the city, which was probably a really great ride until he had to turn east and over the Santa Cruz mountains into the

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Blueberry Pie

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Contributor: Anne Breedlove East or west? Did my husband Jim and I dare try to make it all the way to Perth? It was early May, the time of year the prevailing winds on the Australian Nullarbor Plain shifted. Should we go for it or not? We had eight weeks until our flight home from

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Chain of Goodwill

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Contributor: Ed Ireland-Jones 30th June 2019: Dang it, my knee is wrecked. Well, actually, both are; first, my right knee became really painful, and then the extra strain of attempting to go easy on it has injured my left knee as well. Thank goodness for Jim and Fran, just the sort of friendly faces you

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The Cyclist Who Came in From the Cold

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Contributor: Alan Wechsler As a long-distance cyclist, I frequently host other bicycle tourists who ride through town. Albany, New York in the USA is the crossroads of two well-known routes, one from Buffalo to Boston and the other from New York City to Montreal, and cyclists with saddlebags and camping gear often pass by. Over

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7 Cycling Routes in India Worth Exploring

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Contributor: Kanishka Poddar, Bicycle Mayor of Ranchi Ever since my first long-distance ride from Bombay to Lonavala, I’ve fallen in love with touring places on my bicycle and have started travelling with my bicycle where ever I go. I love the joy of exploring places in slow motion. From touring places in India to countries

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Never Postpone Your Dreams

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Contributor: Franz Jörg Richter I’m 62 years old, from Würzburg, Germany. The Covid pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have highlighted a singular fact: Life is short. And it can be even shorter for kids with rare diseases, who often endure years of agonizing medical tests and doctor visits just to figure out what

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