The Adventure Cycling Guide: Enjoying Your Tour <span><b> To view photographs and access the menu, please enable JavaScripts</B></span> Fitness You don't have to worry too much about getting fit. This is particularly true for long tours, where you just ride yourself fit over the first two or three weeks. You may only do 50km a day for the first week, but this is no big deal. For shorter tours, it's a little more important to hit the ground running to make the most of your limited time. Before you set off, just try and ride your bike as much as you can. Speaking from experience, if you want to avoid excitement, it's best if you don't spend the first day of your very first tour learning how to pedal a fully loaded bike. Take it easy Take it easy on your tour - it's not a race. Do take rest days. Don't be too reluctant to cheat. Challenges Listed below are some of the the main challenges you might have to face on tour, in rough order of increasing difficulty. Hill and mountains Deserts Bad weather Washboard tracks Headwinds Food Drink Wild Camping
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10 Tips For Your First Big Bicycle Expedition | The Next Challenge THIS ARTICLE: Is written by Andy Welch who set off in 2007 on an attempt to cycle around the world on a mountain bike with his friend Tom Allen. It would be unjust and impossible for me to try and summarise everything that Andy’s adventures have led to since then (for that you can visit the Ride Earth website) but suffice to say, he is a good man to advise anyone preparing for their first big bicycle expedition. Here are his top ten tips: 1. Prepare Tom and I spent a considerable chunk of time preparing for our bike trip, Ride Earth. We started a collaborative ‘Wiki’ website to collect a range of information from the philosophy of why we were going to kit lists, visa information for each country we planned to visit, medical advice, etc. In the end it became obvious that we could endlessly prepare but it wasn’t going to help us leave. 2. This was the main piece of advice that Al Humphreys gave us at the expedition planning seminar Explore at the RGS in 2006. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The Adventure Cycling Guide: Planning <span><b> To view photographs and access the menu, please enable JavaScripts</B></span> Travelling by bike you don't have to do much planning. In most cases, it boils down to drawing a line on a map and either getting on a plane or just setting off. How many of you? Going solo If there is only one of you, don't let it stop you going. Two's company "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." I think two is probably the ideal number for a cycling adventure. Three or more It's quite nice to travel in a small group for awhile. How far, how fast In planning your route you need a rough idea of how far and how fast you can travel. Research Key things you need to research before you go include: Security Travelling independently you are responsible for your own security. Road conditions Weather Wind direction Cost of living You need to have a rough idea of what your daily budget is going to be. Sources of information Internet Maps