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  • Free Cycle Touring Talks (and a live event tomorrow night)

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    Riding the Pamir Highway, 22,000 miles of father/son cycling, round-the-world tandem record breakers, adapting any bike for touring, touring in a time of Covid, cycling in Israel/Palestine, the ethics of cycle touring, and Timmy Mallett cycling the Santiago de Compostela. All these talks and more are now available to watch, for free, on the Cycle…

  • Our Video of Cycling Around the World

    Our Video of Cycling Around the World

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    Today I am releasing the official video from our around-the-world cycling trip. Laura and I spent 16 months, cycling 13,000 miles through 24 different countries, filming ourselves as we went. The story is told in full in my new book, With the Sun on Our Right, and now you can see it in a short,…

  • Crossing Lake Baikal in Winter

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    In March, Laura and I travelled to Lake Baikal in Siberia to walk across its frozen surface. This blog post shares our photos. Click here to watch the video.   We started out from Olkhon Island, an area famous for Shamanism…   Before we left home, our main fear was that the ice on the…

  • Bikepacking in Northumberland

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    Laura and I spent the bank holiday weekend bikepacking across Northumberland National Park. That means we cycled off-road carrying all our camping kit in small bags strapped to our bikes:   I’d never been to Northumberland National Park before but it was beautiful:   We were testing out the latest bikepacking bags from Alpkit (which…

  • Bikepacking and Bothies

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    This afternoon, after running a workshop at the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, Laura and I are taking our new mountain bikes across the Cairngorms for a week of bikepacking and bothying. Bikepacking is cycle touring without panniers. Instead we’re using tiny, lightweight bags strapped to the frames of our bikes that mean we can cycle off-road…

  • Anyone Can Cycle Around the World (121 pieces of evidence)

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    Here’s a fantastic ‘infographic’ showing the basic details of over one hundred different round-the-world cyclists. It was made by Mads Phikamphon at Icebike.org. Laura and I feature. Aside from being a wonderful piece of art, it also reinforces the single most important message there is to hear about cycle touring. And it’s the same message…

  • New Adventure Film From Iran

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    If you like adventures and you like watching telly then you should definitely get a copy of Karun. It’s the latest film from my friends, the adventurers Tom Allen and Leon McCarron. Leon’s a cameraman who’s undertaken some deeply impressive expeditions. His last film, Into the Empty Quarter, was top quality. A great story told…

  • Favourite Photos from Cycling Around the World

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    Al Humphreys recently asked Laura and I for some favourite photos from our cycling trip for a new book he’s working on. Here’s what we sent him… P.S. I’m not sure why they’re displaying at such a small size but you can see bigger versions by clicking on them…    

  • Our Video from Cycling Across Australia and New Zealand

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    Here’s the latest video from our trip and the second to last of the lot. It’s from our ride through southern Australia and New Zealand’s North Island. It’s only about 60 seconds long so take a look! You can see all of our videos from our round-the-world cycle and past adventures on YouTube. [divide] Round-the-World…

  • Photos of Middle Earth

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    Here are some of our favourite photos from cycling across New Zealand’s North Island. New Zealand is a beautiful place… As well as the nice views, it has some interesting Maori history… They’ve got some great cycle routes, including old converted railway lines and the government is planning a path running the length of both…

  • 10 Tips for Filming Your First Expedition

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    This article is part of a series in which experts in their field share their top ten tips. Today’s advice comes from Leon McCarron who’s excellent documentaries have featured on National Geographic and been reviewed on this website. You can see the rest of the 10 Tips series here. [divide] 10 Tips for Filming Your…

  • Our Secret Photos from Japan

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    Having a “best” country is daft but Japan is definitely better than all the others. We’d both visited briefly before this trip and were excited about the prospect of going back. It did not disappoint. But for some reason we ‘ve kept them secret until now Here are some highlights: We arrived on the ferry…