37 Round-the-World Cyclists Share Their Kit Lists

We’ve compiled kit lists from 37 different long distance cycle tourers and put them all in one place: here.

The cyclists all come from the Database of Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ)* . Of the 139 trips registered, 37 of them have detailed kit lists available online and they’re all listed below.

I’m sure you’re not going to read them all right now but hopefully this is a useful resource for anyone thinking about kit for their own round-the-world journey. You might also like Tom Allen’s Essential Gear for Cycle Touring book.

You can view our own kit list here.

*LDCJ is probably the world’s largest cycle touring data set. We’ve spent the last year collecting detailed information for some 200 cycle tourists who have literally cycled millions of miles between them. There are graphs, stats and figures for fastest journeys, average monthly costs, types of bike/tyre/handlebars used, which countries are most popular and more. Click here to visit Long Distance Cycle Journeys now >>

Riders’ Names	Trip Name	Tagline	Link
Chris Gruar	cycling4cancer	43 000km across the world in aid of Worldwide Cancer Research, zigzagging via The Arctic Circle, The Balkans, The Silk Road and SE Asia.	View Kit List >>
Alleykat – Alee Denham, Kat Webster	Alleykat Adventure 2012-2014 (Cycling About)	The Netherlands to Australia, spending an average of one month in each country.	View Kit List >>
Cinderella Servranckx	CyclingCindy	Feel the World on a Bicycle	View Kit List >>
Dean McMenamin	Ireland to Nepal (maybe to NZ)	8 months cycling from Ireland to India heading towards Nepal and maybe SE Asia and NZ in the new year.	N/A
Morgan Monchaud, Siphay Vera, Brian Mathé, Etienne Houlès & Bertrand Dolci	Solidream	Round the world trip of three years as a group of friends on all the continents	View Kit List >>
Tyler Kellen & Tara Alan	Going Slowly	A circuitous adventure from Scotland to Southeast Asia.	View Kit List >>
Helen Lloyd	Take On Africa	2 years cycling from home to Cape Town via West and Central Africa	View Kit List >>
Helen Lloyd, Lars Bengtsson	Take On The Americas	From Vancouver to Cancun. Cycling Canada, USA and Central America	View Kit List >>
Mark Beaumont	The Man Who Cycled The World	Around the world record attempt (successful)	N/A
Michael Haeuslmann, Hajar Sadeghinezhad	Cycling The World	Planned to see it all, fell in love while cycling through the Middle East, still going, but not alone anymore.	View Kit List >>
Thiago Ghilardi	Planet by Bike 2005	Solo world bicycle tour of approximately 16,000 miles in 26 countries and 5 continents.	View Kit List >>
Jilly Sherlock	Sherlock Tales	Cycling distractedly around the world in an easterly direction most of the time	View Kit List >>
Scott Stoll	Falling Uphill	One man’s quest for happiness around the world on a bicycle.	View Kit List >>
Rebecca Holliday & Ryan Davies	World Cycling Tour	England to New Zealand	View Kit List >>
Henrik Frederiksen	World On Bike	4 years cycling around the world, dreaming about crossing the 6 continents but, eventually, going where life is taking me.	N/A
Rob Thomson	14 Degrees Off The Beaten Track	Cycling across the Eurasian Continent from Japan to Switzerland, via Central Asia.	View Kit List >>
Alastair Humphreys	Round the World by Bike	Round the world via the length of the Earth’s three main landmasses – 4 years, 46,000 miles, 60 countries	View Kit List >>
Betzgi	Gone Riding	Started this trip with cycling across the African continent. Will continue in Asia (India) with no current plan when to finish.	View Kit List >>
Charlie Walker	Charlie Walker Explore	UK to UK via Nordkapp, Singapore and Cape Town.	View Kit List >>
Stephen Fabes	Cycling The Six	The length of six continents	View Kit List >>
Thomas Andersen	Cycling The Globe	4 years, 40000 km, 40 countries around the world.	View Kit List >>
Kieran Rowley and Natasha von Memerty	Downhill from here	Travelling East from the UK until either the money or our legs run out.	View Kit List >>
James Desmond	Bike to the Future	21,000km through 27 countries London to Sydney.	View Kit List >>
Maarten Wagenmakers & Line van den Hout	Marcovelo	Op de fiets Marco Polo achterna \| Cycling the Silk Road	N/A
Dominic Luther	OneBikeOneWorld	2.5 years into a who knows how long bike ride to somewhere	View Kit List >>
Peter and Ian	Pete and Ian Hit the Road	USA Pacific coast, New Zealand, Brisbane to Melbourne, USA Trans Am, Berlin to Leeds.	View Kit List >>
Heike Pirngruber	Let’s go East – Cycling solo from Germany to Australia	Female cycling solo from Germany to Australia	View Kit List >>
Emma Philpott and Justin Hewitt	Rolling Tales	Cycling from London in a wiggly way towards New Zealand	View Kit List >>
Shane Little	Shane Cycles Africa and more…	One year cycling in Africa plus various other trips	View Kit List >>
Dave Conroy	Around the world since 2009	In 2009 I quit my job working with computers, sold everything I owned and bought a bicycle setting forth for a round the world journey.	View Kit List >>
David Piper	Tra-velo-gue	Making an around the world cycle accessible by riding in stages	N/A
Dave Gill	Vague Direction	A loop of North America by bicycle, meeting fascinating and unique people along the way and making a book about peoples lifestyle choices.	View Kit List >>
Andrew Welch		An intense, slow and winding personal quest through Eurasia, falling in love with Georgia along the way :)	N/A
Amaya Williams, Eric Schambion	World Biking	An ongoing quest to cycle every country on the planet. Since 2006, we’ve biked 96 countries on 6 continents.	View Kit List >>
Nicolai Bangsgaard	Worldtravellers	Solo RTW. 62.180 km. 1.413 days. 53 countries. 6 continents.	View Kit List >>
Matthew Blake	Four years round the world & Cycling to every Major League Baseball ballpark	Four years on a bike & 100 miles per day, trying to watch a game of baseball in 30 Major League Ballparks	View Kit List >>
Sean Conway	World Cycle 2012	Competed in first ever Global Bicycle Race with the intention of going for the world record for fasted circumnavigation by bike.	View Kit List >>