We decided to spend this Christmas riding the Sky Islands Loop, a network of backroads in Southern Arizona that was put together as a 4-5 day route by bikepacking.com. The route has about 11,000ft of elevation gain over 169 miles, so it isn’t extremely difficult, but the route definitely had some challenging terrain. The weather […]
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Taiwan Bicycle Tour – Day 14 – Finish
Finally finished editing the video I took in Taiwan. This video is in 4k so watch in full screen on a large display to see it in full quality. Unfortunately my diary entries stop here and I can’t remember if I just stopped writing them or if I lost the files, so I’m just going […]
Taiwan Bicycle Tour – Days 9 through 13
Day Nine – Xiulin to Hualien City, 15 miles (flat) We had a bad breakfast at the hotel before starting out on the main highway towards Hualien. The riding wasn’t too bad despite being on the main road and it allowed us to move pretty quickly. It’s nice to ride on main roads for a […]
Taiwan Bicycle Tour – Days 5 through 8
Click here for a link to the previous entry Day Five – Jiufen to Jiaoxi – 45 miles We started out the morning with breakfast at our BnB, an egg crepe thing with onions that was pretty good but not very filling. It also came with tea in tiny little tea cups. Due to poor […]
Taiwan Bicycle Tour – Days 1 through 4
Intro days in Taipei We arrived in Taipei around 4:30 in the afternoon after a 13 hour flight from Vancouver. I watched about six different movies on the flight and didn’t really sleep at all, in a semi-successful attempt to avoid jet lag. We had a little bit of difficulty getting a van big enough […]
Cuba Bicycle Tour | January 2019 – Part Two
Continuing on from part one, which can be found here. The next day we headed out from Trinidad and rode to the small village of Playa Yaguanabo. We rode on the coast most of the day. As usual for Cuba, traffic was light and the weather was great. Fantastic riding on the coast. We stayed […]
Cuba Bicycle Tour | January 2019 – Part One
This is my fourth international tour, but my first short tour since England when I was 20. I’ve always been drawn to traveling in Cuba and round trip tickets were amazingly cheap, so it was an easy pick. I knew Cuba was going to be a little more difficult than many other touring destinations because […]
3.24.19 | Kokopelli Trail – Loma to Dewey Bridge
I just got around to working on a video from a two night bikepacking trip we did in March on the Kokopelli Trail, which is a mountain biking trail that links from Grand Junction to Moab. It is 143 miles of steep, hard riding but it’s a lot of fun. Starting out on singletrack in […]
Day 27-29 – Tokyo
The final installment of my Japan tour. Links to previous entries: Days 20-26, Days 14-19, Days 7-13, Days 3-6, Day 2, Day 1, Start of Tour Day Twenty-Seven – Ina and towards Fuji – 2018-04-04 – 70 Miles I started the day out on the main road, Route 19, but took a side road and […]
Day 20-26 – Japan Bike Tour
Days 20-26 Days 14-19 Days 7-13 Days 3-6 Day 2 Day 1 Start of Tour Day Twenty – Osaka to Kyoto – 2018-03-28 – 35 Miles I checked out and got on the road to Kyoto. I stopped at Osaka Castle to take a look at it from a distance then rode through a nice […]