#bicycle touring

[nfasth]

iceland

[warpedwings]

Misha Collins • Bicycle Touring

GIF by @castiels-rainbow

[velovelo]

[ozgurhayalim]

Badem çiçeklerinden gökyüzüne...

Hızırşah Köyü, Datça

[jensensitive]

This story is so funny (x)

[blaueturnschuhe]

Nahverkehr...

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Point Betsie Lighthouse, south of Glen Arbor Michigan, along M22. Stopped here during a bike trip to upper Michigan....loved this part of Michigan.

[bikepackinguk]

Day Ninety-nine

It's a very grey start to today, with a light cloud cover coating the skies.

Up out of the bridleway spot and back onto the road near Constantine, it's straight into the hills as the road leads up into Cornwall's high surroundings as I continue my heading east.

It's some rolling hills to tackle as I slog along the road through some busy morning traffic, until finally riding in to the edges of Falmouth.

The busy port town is full of climbs as I track around and make my way down to the harbourside, where I get a beautiful view across Carrick Roads whilst waiting for the ferry.

After a brief stint afloat and savouring the waves, I put in across the water at the beautiful town of St Mawes.

Heading up past the castle, with some lovely views back across the water, it's up the steep hills once more to start slogging along the road again.

The rising sun is doing its best to burn off the light cloud cover of the morning, and the heat is rising once more as I get to rejoin NCN Route 3 for its stint along the coastline here.

Dropping down past Carne Beach, the route begins a heavy section of steep climbs and drops as it tours around the beautiful coastal area, zig zagging round to take in the many bays and watersides as it makes its way around the cliffsides.

Around and past the steep drops through Portmellon and Mevagissey, the route finally heads off the roads for a long hard climb over the lovely gardens of Heligan, before crossing the road and heading on to St Austell River.

It's a wonderful stretch of off-traffic riding herr as Route 3 follows up the river's course, through some beautiful forested areas, until heading in to St Austell at the heaving A390.

With Route 3 continuing northwards, I head off the cycle route and in to town for a resupply stop and break, before carrying on around the very busy roads to head on towards Par.

Whilst riding along the trails here, the bike lurches to a very sudden stop. A glance down has my heart in my mouth as a rather large branch has managed to find its way into the spokes of my rear wheel, catching the struts of my mudguard, and wrenching everything round. The mudguard has folded near double on itself and is sticking out towards my knee, and the branch is firmly wedged in amongst the wheel.

I stop to assess the damage as this could be pretty disastrous. After managing to extricate the offending piece of wood, I get the mudguard to unfold and slot back into its place without much harm done, and a check of the wheel finds that it's not even much out of true.

What on earth is with this bike?! An absolute tank! I can barely believe that no serious damage has been caused from this incident, but everything seems to be rolling ok, so I guess that means on with the show!

Round to Par and through it's looping one-way system, it's up another big sharp hill to head over to Fowey, with a steep descent through some narrow paths leading to some steps down to my second ferry of the day.

After a short wait and chat with some other tourists waiting, it's aboard the small ferry for a short cruise over the River Fowey to land at the working harbour at Polruan.

With the day wearing on, the heat and work haven't ceased yet, as from the waterside the road leads up and up a long and steep hill to get through and out of the pretty seaside village.

Finally up onto the coastal moorlands, I think it's been another long and tough day's work, so it's time for me to get scouting for a spot to lay my head. Tomorrow should hopefully have me pushing on and out of Cornwall's challenging hills.

TTFN!

[bicycletrailtz]

[bristolcountycyclist]

[kirindensetsu]

Rode my bike from Gokayama through the mountains to Fukumitsu and back and it was FAR. I think it might actually be the same as the distance from Gokayama to Takayama via the Naratoge.

The Tonami Plain is so beautiful. I could never live there because of the Foehn wind, but I love to travel across it.

[nfasth]

[urbanadventureleague]

My 2023 in bicycles and biking

The Bantam at Johnson Creek Park at dusk, 13 Dec 2023. Olympus XA/Kodak Ultramax 400 Hello, friends. Here is my year end reflection on my year in bikes. Overall it’s been a pretty good year, but there’s always–always–room for improvement. Here’s how it went down: A state of the fleet The more things stay the same, the more they stay the same. I have the same four bicycles this year as I did in…

[pauldotbike]

Bikepacking with your kid

Have a kid? Do you also love bikepacking ? Start them early and get them involved. I had a blast taking my 6 year old for his first bikepacking trip.

[ozgurhayalim]

Kıvrımlı dağ yollarından denizi içine fenere...

Sarpıncık feneri, Karaburun

[blaueturnschuhe]

Krasna Lipa - Schöna, 22.11.2023.