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Information and Resources for the Touring Bicyclist Several links you'll find useful |
Tim and Cindie Travis have been close friends since the mid 90's. Tim Travis brought me to believe that with a bicycle, I could travel anywhere in the world. Tim and Cindie left their jobs and possessions behind, and set off to travel the world on bicycles. In 2002, when they left me in Arizona, I had wanted to journey along with them. Now, six years later, they're still on the road. Their website is an ongoing, around the world travel blog and photo journal, loaded with useful information for the serious bicycle tourist or armchair adventurer.
Charles DiBella in September 2008
On the road in Thailand
The Warm Showers List is a list of Internet cyclists who offer hospitality toward touring cyclists. The extent of the hospitality depends on the host, and may range from a spot to pitch a tent, to meals, a warm shower, and a bed.
Record and publish your favorite bike routes on Routeslip, and plan new routes through unknown territories. Track your fitness, and achieve your goals. Routeslip is an invaluable resource for the cross country touring cyclist.
CouchSurfing is not just about finding free accommodations - it's about creating a better world. CouchSurfers strive to unite the world by opening their homes, hearts, and lives, welcoming the knowledge that cultural exchange brings. CouchSurfing creates deep and meaningful connections that cross oceans, continents and cultures, changing the way we travel and how we relate to the world.
GlobalFreeloaders.com is an online community bringing people together. This website offers you free accommodation all over the world. Save money and make new friends while experiencing the world from the perspective of a local resident.
Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night, or a guided tour through town. Joining is free, it only takes just a minute, and everyone is welcome. Members can look at each other's profiles, send messages, and post comments about their experience on the website.
Maps and Travel Guides
Wikitravel is built through collaboration of Wikitravellers from around the globe. Articles can cover any level of geographic specificity, from continents, to districts of a city. These are all logically connected in a hierarchy. The project includes articles on travel-related topics, phrasebooks for travelers, and suggested itineraries. Wikitravel is a multilingual project, available in 18 languages, with each language-specific project developed independently. Toss the weight of those bulky guide books aside.
WikiMapia.org is an online mapping resource. This website gives everyone the opportunity to view or add information to any location on the globe. You can browse the earth from space using different views, such as terrain, satellite and hybrid. Useful tools can be found in the GeoTools area, which will allow you to measure distance, route, land area, and more. Need detailed maps of your route? Print them out in a wide variety of formats.
Wireless Resources and HotSpot Locations
Wireless networking, and locating open wireless hotspots, is an important element when it comes to keeping in touch with others while bicycle touring. I carry the tiny Asus EeePC along with a Canary Wireless WiFi signal detector to keep connected while on the road. The links below contain a wealth of information, and can be useful for initially setting up WiFi on your laptop, working through technical problems, or in finding free hotspot locations the world over. Bookmark these links for future reference.
More Bicycle and Touring Resources
This is a semi-active project I had been developing related to bikepath and bikelane development on Hawaii Island. Information and resources included are valuable for any locality with similar goals. There are many useful and hard-to-find links related to the subject matter.
The Katy Trail is a 225 mile (365 km) bike path stretching across most of the state of Missouri. Over half of it follows Lewis and Clark's path up the Missouri River, where you can ride beneath towering river bluffs while eagles circle overhead. After leaving the river, the trail meanders through peaceful farmland and small-town Americana.
The Katy Trail passes through these towns, villages, and cities in Missouri: Clinton, Windsor, Green Ridge, Sedalia, Clifton City, Boonville, New Franklin, Rocheport, McBaine, Hartsburg, Jefferson, Tebbetts, Mokane, Portland, Rhineland, McKittrick, Treloar, Marthasville, Matson, Defiance, Weldon Spring, St Charles, Machens, Easley, Pilot Grove, Hermann, Huntsdale, Columbia, Jefferson City, Dutzow, Washington, and Augusta.
Bikely shares knowledge of good bicycle routes. It can be quite tricky getting across a city or through a state designed for automobiles, particularly when you need to travel an unknown route to a new destination. Chances are someone has cycled from point A to point B before, and Bikely dot Com makes it easy to find the best way. This is an absolutely fabulous web resource, and an invaluable tool for the serious cross country biker.
The Canal Way Trail System offers miles of scenic trails and numerous parks for hiking, biking and cross-country skiing. During the summer of 2007, I spend several weeks along the Erie Canal in the region where I was born, enjoyed every moment of the experience. You too can enjoy serene landscapes and fabulous wildlife viewing along miles of the green and tranquil trails that line New York's canals.
This is a very exhaustive and maintained list of Recumbent links that has been around for a long time. It's a wonderful site to include in your list of bookmarks and to share with your friends.
Find trails, organizations, agencies, and support groups in every state, and sort then any which way imaginable. This is a good resource worth checking out. Tools like this did not exist ten, or even five years ago. Our generation is very fortunate to have the power of the Internet at hand. In spite of the problems of our age, be thankful for all our blessings.
The quickest and most interactive route to the bicycling information roadway. This site is devoted to providing new route information for and by the biking community. Here you will find a comprehensive, and easy to use guide that allows you to search for rides by location, distance, difficulty and local scenery. Print out a map and take it along when you go.
Lightning Bikes Section
Tim Brummer of Lightning Bikes Speaks
Arguably, the best recumbent bicycles in the world are manufactured in Lompoc, California at Lightning Cycle Dynamics. Founder and owner Tim Brummer, previously an aerospace engineer at Vandenberg Air Force Base, started producing his bikes full time when the Base curtailed its missions two decades ago.
Except for bikes with more extreme reclined positions, Lightning Cycle Dynamics builds some of the world's fastest recumbents, and some of the best climbing 'bents too! All Lightning recumbents have Over-Seat-Steering (OSS) and share a similar short wheelbase (SWB) design. Riding a Lightning puts you in a pretty aggressive stance, ready to power up the next hill.
Curious about recumbent bikes, and considering a Lightning? Want to modify a Lightning, or fix a problem that puzzles the local wrench? Post your questions here, and draw upon the collective experience of other cyclists. Got something Lightning-related to buy or sell? Let us know. The discussion can range freely, as long as the focus stays on recumbent cycling generally, and Lightning bikes in particular. The homepage of this website has the most comprehensive photo collection of Lightning Bikes I have ever seen. Worth a visit just for the pics!
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