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Tag: Sponsorship

  • Expedition Travel Insurance

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    Complete listings of all the best travel insurance companies for expeditions and adventure. Including: cycle touring, mountaineering, climbing, Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland icecap. Updated February 2020 Expedition travel insurance is a topic about which I have received a lot of emails. People struggling to get cover for trips of a long duration, particularly cycling tours,…

  • Your name in lights! (for a donation to our charity)

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      Ever fancied having your name in lights? Well, now you can. Make a donation to our charity – JDRF – in the month of May and we will produce a personalised photograph of your name, as in the image above, as a thank you.  JDRF funds research to find a cure for Type 1…

  • How much does it cost to cycle across Europe?

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    Laura Moss
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    We are often asked on this trip how much it costs to cycle around the world. Are we really rich? Is a company paying for us? How can we afford to leave our jobs and set off on what is essentially a glorified holiday for a whole year or more? We are only a few…

  • 10 Reasons Not to Get Your Expedition Sponsored

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    Your expedition is not contingent upon someone else to get it off the ground. You save all that time creating sponsorship documents, researching contact details and making all those phone calls. You don’t have to repeatedly pitch to uninterested people on the other end of the phone or grovel to someone you don’t like. You’ll…

  • Sealskinz Hats, Gloves and Socks

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    Whilst Laura researches trivial matters such as visas and border crossings in preparation for our bike trip this summer, I have been primarily concerned with gloves. Whether the blame lies with my circulation or just my constitution remains to be determined but, either way, my hands and feet are forever cold in the outdoors and…

  • Brooks England

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    Myself and my bottom are very glad to announce that we will be cycling to Australia on the finest leather saddles from Brooks England. Brooks have kindly sent us two of their classic B17 saddles and a set of their lovely Lands End and John O’Groats waterproof panniers (made by Ortlieb) as well as a saddlebag…

  • Lyon Equipment Sponsorship

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    Lyon Equipment are the UK importer for a number of well-known outdoors brands such as Petzl, Ortlieb and Exped. For some years they ran an annual expedition award which provided sponsored equipment for a selection of the best adventures to apply. Laura and I submitted an application a couple of months ago and eventually received…

  • Where to Buy Cheap Outdoors Kit

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    Like most people who get into the outdoors, I have acquired my fair share of kit over the years and, during that time, I’ve found a few places that are good for getting cheap or discounted equipment. Here are a few recommendations: [divide] Google Shopping Google search for shops. The first place to go for…

  • Light My Fire Adventurer of the Year 2013

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    Swedish company Light My Fire make the excellent fire steel ‘strikers’ – great pieces of kit for reliably lighting a stove in the cold and wet – but are probably better known for the ubiquitous plastic sporks you find by the tills in most outdoors shops. They also run an annual ‘Adventurer of the Year’…

  • Kukri Adventure Scholarship (we didn’t get it)

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    Tim Moss
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    As many of you will know from your kind support and our constant spamming, Laura and I entered a video into the Kukri Adventure Scholarship competition before Christmas. It was partly judged on the number of votes cast for each video and we were roughly in the top third for vote count so thank you…

  • Can you help me with my next expedition?

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    Tim Moss
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    I am pleased to announce that the next expedition I am planning is a big one: to leave my London life and spend a year cycling right the way around the world. I’ve produced a video about the trip (below) and entered it into a competition to win an expedition grant. Kukri Adventure Scholarship It’s…

  • Dressing up an expedition as a charitable act is just plain wrong

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    Last week I posted a Twitter update with a link to an article with the tag line: “Dressing up an expedition as a charitable act is just plain wrong“. It opens with this: The next time some would-be adventurer tells me he’s doing an expedition to raise money for a cause, I’m finally going to…