Author: Tim Moss
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Resources from the Cycle Touring Festival
This weekend was the inaugural Cycle Touring Festival in Clitheroe, Lancashire. The dust has yet to settle completely but, by all accounts so far, it was a fantastic success. A wonderful weekend full of enthusiastic people coalesced around the common cause of adventure cycling. A lot of information and ideas came out of the festival. Too…
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“Normal life” is Full of Routines But So is Cycling Around the World (and that’s no bad thing)
This time last year I was having the time of my life, pedalling across South Korea. Now, I am back in the UK and back in a normal job. Every morning, I get up at the same time, put the kettle on, eat my breakfast, make a packed lunch and cycle to work. Every afternoon,…
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Is Crowd Funding an Acceptable Way to Pay for an Expedition?
Is “crowd funding” a great new way to kick start expeditions? Or is it just asking other people to pay for your holiday? Expeditions can be expensive. Although I personally advocate cheap adventures (like my friends Tom and Al do) and almost always advise people not to bother trying to get that elusive sponsorship deal,…
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Cycling around the world is not what would you expect
Life rarely brings what you expect of it. And cycling around the world is no different. How could it be? From our desks in London, how could we have imagined the places we’d see and the people we’d meet? We could never have predicted entering a stranger’s house and finding it littered with ammunition, gun…
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Deep South: Our Final Photos from Cycling Around the World
This is the last set of photographs from our round-the-world bike trip and they are some of my favourites from one of the most memorable legs of the journey: the American Deep South. Texas was our third biggest “country” with more remote stretches than anywhere else in the world that we cycled through. It’s not…
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How to Wash on a Cycle Tour (and other questions answered)
Hi Tim. Clearly you have done a lot of touring and adventuring, and as a newbie to the whole thing I just have a bunch of questions I’d love to ask a veteran. If you have a little time on your hands for a little email back and forth please let me know. I’d love…
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Proof That Anyone Can Cross a Desert
I started this blog six years ago to encourage people to go on adventures and help them where I can. People email me questions all the time. I write back to every single one but many never even reply to say thanks. So it was supremely gratifying to receive an email the other day from…
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Interview with Film Maker Tom Allen
Kickstarter is a very successful new website which helps people fund projects. Adventurers Leon McCarron and Tom Allen recently completed two expeditions and are now using Kickstarter to raise the money for making films from the trips. Click the link to see more about their project – A Tale of Two Rivers – or read…
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The Multi-Fuel Stove That Doesn’t Need Priming
The Soto Muka is a new multi-fuel stove that does not require priming before lighting. As such, it is quicker, easier and cleaner to use than any other liquid fuel camping stove. [divide] Quick Review The Soto Muka OD-1NP is a wonderfully innovative stove that is far easier to operate and maintain than other liquid…
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The New Stove That Burns All Fuels Through a Single Jet
The Optimus ‘Polaris Optifuel’ is a new multi-fuel stove that can burn all liquid fuel types and butane/propane canisters through a single jet. [divide] Quick Review [one_half] Pros Burns all types of fuel Don’t ever need to change nozzles/jets Good build quality [/one_half] [one_half_last] Cons Expensive Bit heavier than some [/one_half_last] You should buy this…
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I Walked from Exmoor to Patagonia
I walked out of my front door for the first time, age 14, with 75-litres’ worth of kit on my back and made a bee line for Exmoor carrying a change of jeans, a clutch of Pot Noodle and four spare litres of water (“just in case”). Our mileage as a group was low but…
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All Human Life
His huge form loomed over us in the doorway. Shaved head and powerful piercing eyes invisibly forcing us back into the darkened street. Well don’t just stand there, he said, come on in. The muscles of his forearm tensed as he dished out massive dollops of creamy mash potato. I’m a teacher, he told us…