Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook: A Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide
Stephen Lord
ISBN 10: 1873756895 ISBN 13: 9781873756898
Verlag: Trail Blazer Pubns, 2006
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Every cyclist dreams of making the Big Trip, the Grand Cycle Tour abroad. The Adventure Cycling Handbook is the comprehensive manual that will make that dream a reality whether it's riding the Karakoram Highway, cycling in Tibet or pedaling from Patagonia to Alaska. So whether cyclists are planning their own Big Trip or just enjoy reading about other people's adventures, the handbook is guaranteed to illuminate, entertain and above all, inspire.
>Which bike to take -- top ten internationally-available bikes
>Preparing a bike for long-range touring -- load carrying, tools, spares, and repairs
>Clothing, camping gear, health, and survival
>Air-freighting a bike
>Transcontinental route outlines -- across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America
>Tales from the saddle -- firsthand accounts of spoke-bending biking adventures worldwide; battling against the elements on epic journeys: Kyrgyzstan, India, The Road to Everest, Travels on a Recumbent, Costa Rica, Siberia, Crossing Europe in 1929, Californian Wine Tour
>Which bike to take -- top ten internationally-available bikes
>Preparing a bike for long-range touring -- load carrying, tools, spares, and repairs
>Clothing, camping gear, health, and survival
>Air-freighting a bike
>Transcontinental route outlines -- across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America
>Tales from the saddle -- firsthand accounts of spoke-bending biking adventures worldwide; battling against the elements on epic journeys: Kyrgyzstan, India, The Road to Everest, Travels on a Recumbent, Costa Rica, Siberia, Crossing Europe in 1929, Californian Wine Tour
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
Stephen Lord spent the first ten years of his working life as a banker in the City of London and has lived and worked in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. He has traveled widely over the last fifteen years - on his bicycle, by canoe and on foot. He has walked several of the French pilgrimage routes and the Via de la Plata in Spain and recently updated Trailblazer's Trekking in the Pyrenees. His long-distance cycling expeditions have included London to Athens, Alaska to Mexico and numerous shorter trips in Japan, India and other parts of Asia.
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Titel: Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook: A ...
Verlag: Trail Blazer Pubns
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Paperback
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