Since the early 2000’s I’ve explored the best cycling routes from London. I often found the city a little overwhelming. I just wanted to ride my bike through the clean air of green spaces.
There are a couple of simple rules that we follow when planning a cycle route from London for a fun and enjoyable bike ride.
A ten-day bicycle tour of Morocco This blog post about cycle touring in Morocco shares the story of our ten-day bike adventure from Marrakech, across the Atlas mountains to Agadir, along the coast to Essaouira then back to Marrakech. We travelled in the autumn of 2012, as far as I can remember. It was the … Read more
In this article on yoga stretches for cyclists I’m going to share my favourite daily yoga sequence that help support flexibility, strength and performance on the bike.
The Dunwich Dynamo, the dun run, the French might call it ‘the beautiful madness’. Whatever you call it, the dun-run is a whole lot of adventure packed in to a single night.
I’ve taken part in this iconic event three times; 2011, 2013 and 2014. In this article I’m sharing the account of each ride. My hope is that these short stories will inspire you to take part in the next Dun Run in 2021.
A motorcycle tour of India is one of those iconic journeys that you read about in glossy travel magazines: a hulk of a man with chiselled features and a thousand-yard stare straddling a shiny metal rocket in the high mountains of Ladakh. You know the one, the guy in the Belstaff jacket casually stroking his chin to flash the Submariner.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: there’s no finer way to see the world than on two wheels.
Well, here’s the bonus: you can do it too. With a little planning, a bit of common sense and a couple of grand in the bank, you, too, can take on an all-India motorcycle trip and live to tell the tale.
Way back in 2011, Adrian and I cycled 20 countries in 100 days for Re-Cycle, the bikes to Africa charity. Our bicycle journey helped raise funds to send a container of bikes to Africa and highlighted the great work that this wonderful bike charity does to empower lives in Africa.
In late 2012, Adrian had the pleasure of visiting the inspirational tea-fuelled powerhouse that is Re-Cycle HQ over in Colchester, UK. He spent the day learning how to donate a bike to charity and how you can too. What a day it was.
Read all about our Charity Bike Ride for armchair inspiration!
Five weeks ago in a sleepy Greek town just outside Thessaloniki a guy gestured me over to his white van. “Wo kommst du?” Says he, holding out his hand to be shaken. England, says I, shaking the proffered mitt. “Have a coffee on me” he urged, driving off hurriedly. I step back to the pavement to find a neatly folded 20 euro note in my palm. Generous thinks I, very generous.
Top Apps For Bike Travel That I Recommend For Overland Adventures I first shared this post about apps for bike travel in 2013, at the time I was fresh off my charity bike ride around Europe, where I’d used paper maps and fallen in love with the romance of route planning in real time on … Read more