We’ve just come back from a trip to New Zealand where we cycle toured for five weeks. I had crawled the internet for information, reading other people’s blogs and write-ups about their cycle tours in New Zealand. My strong recommendation is that you simply have to buy ‘Pedallers' Paradise’ by Nigel...
After I read Anne's book A Bike Ride, I just had to read one of her other books and got hold of Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World.
This book is written in the same way as A Bike Ride, very witty and page turning. You get into the book and just can't get away, not that you are l...
The TravellingTwo have just written a free eBook about the basic touring.
I have just signed up for their news letter and read their first eBook. It is well written and gives you plenty food for thought even for somewhat seasoned cycle tourer. If you are a newbie to the cycling touring world thi...
Anne tells a lie in her book A bike ride, she doesn't cycle 12,000 miles around the world. She only cycles 11,552 miles around the world, but I too would round it to the nearest thousand if I ever managed what she did.
I only learned about this truly remarkable woman last year when she untimely...
I have never heard about Anne Mustoe until I was told about her untimely passing.
... what she termed her “new career”. When she resolved to cycle round the world, Mustoe was 54, somewhat overweight and unfit, and without any idea of how to mend a puncture. She had not ridden a bike for 30 years...
I have just finished Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne, and I loved it, it is a very good read.
It is by all means not a touring book or a ride write up in the normal sense of bicycle related books. The first part is more a diary of David's visits to cities around the world, with some comments on a...
