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Bicycle touring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bicycle touring means self-contained cycling trips for pleasure, adventure and autonomy rather than sport, commuting or exercise. Touring can range from single to multi-day trips, even years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_touring
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5 Popular Myths about Long Distance Bicycle Touring
Recently Chris from Vermont e-mailed us about our bicycle tour. Before signing off he wrote, "I would love to do what you are doing, but at my age it is just not possible."
http://www.worldbiking.info/wordpress/2011/01/5-popular-myths-about-long-distance-bicycle-touring/
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Tips For Long Distance Biking
For many years, Barrett Golding has been bicycling with his good friend and collaborator Josef Verbanac. Here are some tips and photographs from their adventures.
http://www.atlantic.org/projects/heartoftheland/golding_biking.php
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How to Plan a Long Distance Bicycle Tour
Cycling has become a very popular sport the last few years because it allows the individual to decide whether you want to go around the block, go trail riding, join a bike club, or do some serious long distance rides.
http://www.fiftysense.net/outdoors/cyclingdistance.shtml
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10 Long-Distance Bicycle Routes in the U.S. - Matador Network
Matador is a travel and lifestyle brand redefining travel media with cutting edge adventure stories, photojournalism, and social commentary.
http://matadornetwork.com/trips/10-long-distance-bicycle-routes-in-the-u-s/
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How To Plan A Bike Tour
Advice on how to plan your next bike tour.
http://tomsbiketrip.com/planning-a-bike-tour/
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The Most Popular Bicycles For Long Distance Touring - Go Bicycle Touring
What's the best bicycle for a long-distance tour? Impossible to say. What I can tell you is which bicycles are the most popular for round the world cycle tours.
http://www.gobicycletouring.info/2012/05/the-most-popular-bicycles-for-long-distance-touring/
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Tips for Cycle Trips - Wikitravel
Cycling has many advantages as a form of travel, as it is the fastest way to travel by human power, but slow enough to allow the type of local immersion that is impossible with powered travel. Cycle travel can also be a cheap form of transportation.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Tips_for_cycle_trips
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Endurance Cycling - Five Mistakes to Avoid
Centuries, double centuries, and brevets are the bread and butter of most endurance cyclists. They provide a good challenge, great training, an opportunity to test the efficacy of training and nutrition, and a nice day on the bike with fellow riders.
http://www.adventurecorps.com/way/fivemistakes.html
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How To Train For Long Distance Cycling Touring
So you are dreaming of life on the open road on that epic long-distance cycle tour. Yet you are doing nothing proactive about it, because you think you are not fit enough.
http://tomsbiketrip.com/how-to-train-for-long-distance-cycle-touring/
