bike touring

Hey everyone I've been lurking here for awhile now , love all the great info. Anyways I do tree work here in Pennsylvania and have the winters off (Jan 1st- Apr 1st) where I can collect seasonal unemployment. I usually just ski bum but this winter i am seriously contemplating a bike tour , a...

Good morning! I've been conditioning myself for, and building my gear up for, a tour through Montana, ultimately heading down to Yellowstone through paradise valley. I've got a GIANT brand aluminum frame mtn bike with disk brakes, as well as rechargeable and battery powered lights (in case I...

I'm posting this guide with the hopes that those reading it will give me input to make it better and point out flaws and gaps in the guide. Please see the first reply for more info! What is Bike Touring? Bike punk is just the clever name we’ve given to bike culture as it relates to the punk...

I've been researching panniers to purchase and came across these high quality (and high priced) ones that convert into a backpack! They're made by https://www.pannierbackpacks.com in Colorado. I'm just trying to decide if I would ever need to quickly convert to backpack mode from bike touring mode.

"Bicycle touring through the Sierra Nevada, Death Valley, Utah, Colorado Rockies, and to my destination in Nebraska. Music composed by me with samples from Garageband iOS." It's a long video, but if you want to get an idea of what a ride like this looks like, he's done an excellent job of...

Hey folks, as some of you might know, I've been making plans to do a bike tour down the west coast via the 101 highway. My goal is to bike from Astoria, Oregon to Slab City, California and arrive in time for StP's Dirty Scouts Jamboree in October. I've done a few small bike tours before, but...

I'm exploring the idea of bike touring, and curious what some of you experienced dawgs carry in your home on wheels. What's the one thing you can't live without on the road that you sacrifice space and/or weight for?

About to leave Greensboro and head up to philly via the ECG. Has anyone done this or live near it or know anything I should do that is cool around it? Hell, anyone ridding it or want to and can get up and go asap? get at me nurds! check out my travel blog n shit...

Hi folks.. Have wanted to do a west coast trip on my bicycle for a while now and am now starting to plan and get ideas for around end of august, beginning of September this year. Wanting to first off get some ideas on rad places to stop along the way. Plan so far is Vancouver BC downwards to...

The Thousand Year Journey: Oregon to Patagonia Jedidiah quit a job that he loved to ride his bicycle from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. Filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher joined him for his month-and-a-half long journey to find out why. I finally found a video to send to my family to...

I'm considering bike-touring from Twin cities, MN to the west coast (most likely Seattle, WA.) I've never bike toured before, but I'm sick of GreyHound's bullshit. ::banghead:: Right now, I don't have any gear. I don't even have a bike, but I have a lot of time to gather what I need, if I decide...

I'm Catlin and I've been hitchhiking around for the past 2 years, over 19 states and 8,000 miles. STP has taught me tons of things about hitchhiking which I'm super grateful for. And therefore, with the urging of a fellow STPer (thanks Bruce!), I decided to make an account and share my story...

So I've been hitchhiking around for a couple of months now, and somehow I've figured it isn't the right fit for me. I've met many great, compassionate people and had fun camping (I was always the ninja on halloween), but something about the type of people on the road strikes me as harmful. I...

Hey guys! I posted about how I'm going to be biking around michigan about 2 months ago. I've had a lot happen since then that has required me to keep pushing back my trip, but I'm finally taking off from Grand Rapids this Sunday (the 2nd). the current plan is just a trip up along the coast to...

I'm very much new to the bike touring world, just reading lots to get an idea of the things to look forward to. i've hiched a hell of a lot, and one thing that can be a bit of a bitch, when in a populated an area, is what to do with the gear. With a backpack I usually ask a shop/bar/hostel to...

So I wanna get a crew together to bike the legendary AP. I don't want to go it alone and I've been meaning to hike it, anyway. I'd like to shoot for fall of next year, north to south through biking. If anybody is interested, let me know. I'm still working on getting physically fit and if you're...

I'm doing another bike tour from Colorado to New York in the next few weeks. I already have all my gear since I did this six months ago to get here, but I need to get there in 30 days and was wondering if anyone had any luck touring and either hitch hiking or hopping freight trains. I'm making...

-- Bike Touring Megathread -- Contribute comments, edits, and additions by replying to this thread and a moderator will add it to this post. Useful Bike Touring Websites Bike touring is a big subject, with a lot of resources available both online and in print form. So if you're planning on...

Here are some of the best photos I took from Colorado. Goes from Pueblo to Breckenridge with a part of Western Kansas at the end. There are others, but the max upload is ten files, so if you are interested in seeing more let me know and I'll make another post.

Hey everyone, I've done a few bike tours in the past but it's been a few years now and I want to get back into it. I was lucky enough to have an awesome bike each time, but now I'm on a far more limited budget. What I'm wondering is if anyone here has any suggestions for road bikes that are...

I just finished a two month bike tour across Central America and it was freaking incredible. If there is a haven for scumbag travelers this place is it. Super easy to live on the road, very kind and generous people. We free camped every night in peoples farms, lands, houses, & beaches without...

A friend and i (both males mid 20's) are doing a 2,000 mile bike ride and are going to be in Phoenix for a couple of days in early april (possibly arriving the 6th or 7th). i was wondering if anyone could help us with housing. We would be down to help with house work, or anything else that...

HI A friend and I are biking from San Francisco to San Diego at the end of May. We will be riding mostly on highway 1 and will most likely be making stops in Santa Cruz, Monterey, Big Sur, San Luis Obispo, Lompac, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles. We are trying to stop at various...