Bicycle Touring Pro
Bicycle Touring Pro is the world’s most popular how-to bicycle touring website and information source. You’ve come to the right place if you want to learn how to conduct your own incredible cycling adventures anywhere in the world.
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Bicycle Touring Pro is a website dedicated to helping people of all ages, incomes and backgrounds get their start in the wonderful world of bicycle touring.
What started as a small online resource for how to plan, prepare for, and execute a self-supported bicycle tour has quickly grown into the most recognized name in the bicycle touring world. Since its creation in late 2007, Bicycle Touring Pro has inspired thousands of people and given them the confidence and resources needed to conduct the bicycle tour of their dreams!
Content created by the Bicycle Touring Pro - Darren Alff.
WEBSITE: www.bicycletouringpro.com
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I've made more than 700 bicycle touring videos over the last 15 years, but I want to know which types of videos you'd like me to create more of in the future.
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What are you doing on the weekend of May 21-22? Because you should really consider coming out for the "Bikes & Burritos" Overnight Bicycle Tour in Park City, Utah: bicycletouringpro.com/product/bikes-burritos-overn…
This is a fun, social bike tour - perfect for beginners and intermediates alike. Register your spot today... as there are currently only 8 spots left. www.bicycletouringpro.com/calendar
3 years ago | [YT] | 18
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I've ridden my bicycle across UKRAINE on two separate occasions. Once during the winter of 2012... and once during the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. I've since traveled back to Ukraine on several occasions without my bicycle. In fact, my last international trip was 1.5 months of travel in Ukraine! It's one of my favorite countries in the world, I have dozens of friends there and was even thinking of buying property in the country at one point in time.
Today I thought I'd share some photos from my 2012 wintertime bike tour across Ukraine.
On this particular trip, I had cycled all the way from Istanbul, Turkey... through Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova when I reached the border of Transnistria - an unrecognised, Russian-backed breakaway state located in the narrow strip of land between the Moldovan–Ukrainian border.
At the border, I was greeted with a massive military tank, soldiers with machine guns and a fat, grumpy, Russian border patrol agent who informed me that I had 4 hours to bike all the way across Transnistria.
After having my passport handed back to me, I took off down the road and raced toward the border of Ukraine. A short while later, I noticed I was being followed.
Every once and a while, a white van would zoom past me down the road. Then it would pull over in the distance, sit there for a few minutes, and then come back down the road in my direction. The van would pass, then turn around and come back toward me, repeating this action several times throughout the day.
Eventually, I stopped and pulled out my camera, which was outfitted with a large zoom lens. With the van now sitting off in the distance ahead of me, I quickly peered into my camera and zoomed in on the suspicious white vehicle. Inside the driver's seat of the van was a man wearing full camouflage garb and looking directly at me through a set of binoculars. Yep, I was definitely being surveilled!
Eventually, I reached the border of Transnistria and Ukraine... and I've never felt so good passing from one "country" into another. The sun was shining... the border guards in Ukraine were incredibly kind and welcoming... and even though I had never been to Ukraine before, I already had a good feeling about the place.
That night I cycled about 10 miles/16 km down the road before setting up my tent in an orchard. I crawled inside my sleeping bag and went to sleep, not knowing anything about Ukraine or what was in store for me over the next several weeks.
The following morning, I woke up in a deep, dark fog. I could barely see 10 feet in front of me sometimes. And that fog remained with me for the next 2 weeks as I slowly cycled my way across the country.
It was freezing cold, dark, wet and miserable much of the time. But I loved it! The people were warm and welcoming; the food was delicious and inexpensive; and it was so cold outside I could carry ice cream in my pannier bags as I cycled!
I'll share more of my adventures in Ukraine in a future post... but for now, please visit the Bicycle Touring Pro Facebook page to see more photos from my 2012 bike tour across Ukraine: www.facebook.com/bicycletouring
3 years ago | [YT] | 384
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No new video this week (sorry)... but I do have a new PODCAST for you to listen to: bicycletouringpro.com/tell-me-about-your-bike/In this very special podcast episode, you'll hear the story behind my first "touring" bicycle... and how I rode this rusty, bend and battered bicycle across the United States on my first two long-distance bike tours.
Trust me... the story behind this bike will totally surprise you!
And if you're not already subscribed to the "Bicycle Touring Pro" podcast, I recommend you do that now. It's totally free... and available wherever you listen to podcasts.
5 years ago | [YT] | 142
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It's Sunday!!! - A great day to sit down and watch Bicycle Touring Pro's latest video from his cycling adventures in Northern California.
What would you do if a truck driver pulled over and told you that he had just seen a bear in the middle of the road? Would you turn around? Or keep pedaling?
And how scared would you be if you had to camp in the forest knowing that a bear had just been spotted in the area?
7 years ago | [YT] | 19
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If you haven't watched the 1st video from my 5-day bike tour through the redwood trees in Northern California... today would be the perfect time to watch the video.
7 years ago | [YT] | 19
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If you missed last week's BICYCLE TOURING PRO webinar about "Bicycle Touring in Eastern Europe" there's no need to worry. You can watch the video replay or download the audio podcast of the full 2-hour event here: bicycletouringpro.com/cycling-eastern-europe/
7 years ago | [YT] | 56
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This how-to book has helped thousands of people learn to bike tour... and it can help make your bicycle touring dreams come true too!
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This is one of the first Bicycle Touring Videos I ever made... from my 2015 bike tour across Romania... and it's still one of my favorite videos ever. If you haven't watched it yet, I recommend you watch it now. This was a near perfect day of bicycle touring!
7 years ago | [YT] | 52
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DON'T FORGET: Bicycle Touring Pro's LIVE YouTube webinar on "The Basics of Bikepacking" is TODAY at 12:00 PM Pacific Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsoOsx...
I hope to see you there! - It's going to be a lot of fun.
I'll be showing you two very different bicycle touring setups and explaining how easy it is to get started with your own bikepacking adventures. Plus, there will be a Q&A session after my presentation where you will be able to ask me anything you want about bicycle touring, bikepacking, world travel, stealth camping, or anything else you want to ask.
7 years ago | [YT] | 40
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