Resources
Downloadable PDFs:
Cycling:
- Adventure Cycling Association – great for maps, packing lists, gear, and finding companions
- Bike Forums.net – great for information on bikes, gear, packing, general biking and touring information, as well as, finding cycling companions
Interesting Cycling Articles:
Cycling Gear Sites:
Blogs of other cyclists I met:
- Project Tandem – documenting opinions about the environment while cycling for 10 months (11,000 miles) around the U.S.
- Bill’s Journey from San Francisco to St. Augustine
- Jim Eastman’s Touring Blog
- Dirthugger – Adam’s Blog about mountain bike touring in Colorado
- Nate Crimmins’ Blog – NYC to San Francisco
- Sam, Jay, and Ben’s Transamerican Trip
- Chase Rides West (North Carolina to Portland, Oregon)
- Rod’s Ride from Vancouver, Canada to San Francisco
- Cindi and Mike Travis World Cycling Adventures – on the road since March 2002
- The Z-Team – 5 JMU guys bike across the U.S.
- Wayne Joerding’s Touring Website
Other Cyclists Blogs (those I didn’t meet personally):
- Travelling Two – great website with abundance of articles, resources, and videos about cycling the world.
- David Kroodsma’s Bike Tours for Climate
- Greg’s Transamerican Ride (a blog I followed a lot prior to my trip – he was about 3 weeks ahead of me)
- Seize The World – 14 months around the globe with epilepsy
- Ann Wilson – cycling the world
- Family on Bikes – a husband and wife and twin boys cycle from Alaska to Argentina
- Avoiding Europe – Percy Herbert’s touring trip through Europe
- Scott & Becky go East – cycling around the world without any plane travel
- David Piper – cycling around the world
- Cycling the 6 – Stephen Fabes cycles the world for 4-5 years
- Sendero Cycles (custom bike frames)
- Skalatitude – solo female cyclist traveling the world
- Josie Dew – awesome amounts of cycle traveling around the world
Alcohol Stoves:
- This cat food can stove is simple and easy to make – literally a 10 minute job to make this. I made two, one from a larger can (tuna-can size) and one from a small cat food can. As it turns out, the smaller cat food can stove worked best and burned better.
- Cat Food Can Alcohol Stove (Lightweight version of tuna can stove)
- The Pika Alcohol Stove
- Vargo Outdoors Triad XE Titanium Alcohol/Fuel Tab Stove ($32.95)