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Desert Snow by Helen Lloyd – Book Review

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 16, 2014In: Living Adventurously1 Comment

Snow in the desert is a rare thing and so are solo female cyclists in Africa. Such is the premise for Helen Lloyd’s first book and it is not disingenuous in the least. To describe cycl... Read more

A million miles of cycling in numbers

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 10, 2014In: Advice Articles2 Comments

A couple of weeks ago we launched Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ), an online resource of bicycle journeys over 6,000 miles (10,000km). We’ve had a huge response already (see below)... Read more

Turkish hospitality

Posted By: Laura Mosson: January 02, 2014In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

We spent forty nine nights in Turkey, and used our tent on just four of them. Many of these nights indoors were impromptu acts of kindness, when we knocked on a random door at the end of a d... Read more

Join the Database of Long Distance Cycling Journeys

Posted By: Laura Mosson: December 19, 2013In: Living AdventurouslyNo Comments

We are very excited to announce the launch of our latest project, a database of long distance cycling journeys. Visit the Database of Long Distance Cycling Journeys This database has two bro... Read more

Ten things I know about long distance cycle touring

Posted By: Laura Mosson: December 13, 2013In: Tim's Adventures1 Comment

1) It’s not that difficult, and gets easier Before we left the UK, many people asked what training we were doing. Although we cycled most days in and around London, during the final fe... Read more

If Cycling Around The World Is So Good Then How Come I Just Want To Watch DVDs?

Posted By: Tim Mosson: October 07, 2013In: Tim's Adventures2 Comments

A big cycling trip is something of which I, and we, have dreamed for many years. Ever since spending three weeks pedalling through Scandinavia alone in 2009, before that listening to Alastai... Read more

A Holiday

Posted By: Tim Mosson: August 25, 2013In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

And so a holiday comes to an end. It started at a palace in Hampton Court with a crowd of well wishers and continued with a smaller crowd of cyclists. Through the Surrey Hills we cycled, str... Read more

Commuter Cyclist to Adventure Tourer

Posted By: Tim Mosson: July 15, 2013In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

As a kid, I was always scared of cycling. I knew how to ride a bike but I could never pluck up the courage to cycle the two or three miles to my school. But I moved to London to study at UCL... Read more

Reading List for Cycle Tourists

Posted By: Tim Mosson: July 10, 2013In: Advice Articles18 Comments

Following the popularity of the recent Best Books for Wild Swimmers article, I thought I’d start a discussion around the best books about cycling. Being an adventure website and as I... Read more

We Are Cycling to Australia

Posted By: Tim Mosson: July 08, 2013In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

In six weeks’ time, Laura and I will be starting a cycle ride to Australia. I’ve created a new page on the site where you can read about our plans and follow us. Please do have a... Read more

Danny MacAskill’s Inspired Bicycles

Posted By: Tim Mosson: June 24, 2013In: Living AdventurouslyNo Comments

This is an oldie but a goodie (it’s had 30 million views on YouTube). From what I can tell, Danny MacAskill‘s since gone on to be quite a successful sponsored cyclist and made ma... Read more

Easter Cycling Video

Posted By: Tim Mosson: April 24, 2013In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

We took our GoPro video camera with us on the cycle trip over Easter. We’ll be taking it around the world with us too. We won’t be attempting to make a proper documentary about o... Read more