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Bikepacking vs. Bike Touring: What's the Difference?
Bike Touring vs. Bikepacking:What's the Difference? What's the difference between traditional bike touring and bikepacking? Unfortunately, the answer is not simple. What differentiates the two?…
Rating the Difficulty of Bikepacking Routes
Rating the Difficulty of Bikepacking Routes How to grade bikepacking route difficulty? I've been hard at work putting together the Bikepack Adventures website, trying to…
Slowest Known Time – My Journey to Completing the Log Driver’s Waltz Bikepacking Route | By Gene Villeneuve
I was in a meditative state often brought on by hours of rhythmic pedalling, vibrating gravel roads, flowing thoughts, and controlled breathing.
Gear Review | Redshift Shockstop Stem
Redshift Shockstop Stem Offers plenty of relief for gravel riding and increased performance. Use discount code at checkout to save 15% BTA15 Product Overview The…
Blackburn Outpost Elite Handlebar Roll
Blackburn Outpost Elite Handlebar Roll Double-sided dry-bag with a sweet harness Use discount code at checkout to save 15%BTA15 Product Overview With so many types…
Gear Review | Opus Horizon: Long-term Review
Having ridden road bikes since 2003, I decided it was time to change things up. In 2020 I traded in my road bike for something…
The Ultra-Distance Bikepacking Kit List
In the summer of 2020 I rode 5521km from Vancouver, British Columbia to Whitehorse, Yukon and then onwards east all the way to Winnipeg, Manitoba.…
PART 5: The Alaska Highway
The Alaska Highway Built by the Americans during WWII, the Alaska Highway was constructed to connect the Lower 48 to the state of Alaska. Beginning…
PART 6: Eastern Yellowhead Highway
Eastern Yellowhead Highway Originally constructed in 1970, the Yellowhead Highway stretches across the four Western Provinces, starting just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba and going all the…
PART 4: The Cassiar Highway
The Stewart-Cassiar Highway The Stewart-Cassiar Highway, first built in 1975, is the northern-most and most remote part of British Colombia. Stretching from Kitimat in the…
PART 3: The Yellowhead Highway
The Yellowhead Highway Originally constructed in 1970, the Yellowhead Highway stretches across the four Western Provinces, starting just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba and going all the…
PART 2: The Cariboo Highway
The Cariboo Highway The Cariboo Highway runs from Cache Creek to Prince George and is named after the region through which it runs. A lot…
PART 1: The Sea to Sky Highway
The Sea to Sky Highway starts at the U.S. border just south of Vancouver and extends northwards for 409km to just outside Cache Creek where it joins up with Hwy 97. Considered one of the most beautiful drives in the world, this section of my tour made for some real challenges and a lot of excellent views during the first few days of my bike tour.
Choosing A Bike Bag Setup
Handlebar Setup When deciding on how you will setup the cockpit of your bike, it's important to choose the right bag for the job. Depending…
Parts Of The Bike | Bicycle Components For Beginners
Parts of the Bike One of the biggest challenges every cyclist has to go through at some point is learning the names of the parts…
Spare Parts For Touring
Spare Parts For Your Bike Tour After numerous bike tours and extensive conversations with bike tourers from around the world, I have put together what…
Pros and Cons to Touring on a Folding Bike
Pros and Cons to Using a Folding Bike for Touring Having done some bike touring on road bikes, mountain bikes, and folding bikes, I decided…
When and Where to go on a Bike Tour
Should I buy a new bike before bike touring? Should I wait until I save more money? Should I wait until my kids are just…
What is Bike Touring?
What does it mean to go on a Bike Tour Adventure? A bike tour adventure is a pretty flexible term generally used for getting on…
Tour Along the Saint Lawrence River: Ottawa --> Quebec City --> Ottawa
Click the speaker to play the blog post using the website voice app. When moving back to Canada at the beginning of summer 2019 I…
SE Asia Adventure: Part 3 - Vang Vieng, Laos
In SE Asia Aventures, Part 3, we spend a couple days in Vang Vieng, exploring and doing some mini adventures aroud the area.
SE Asia Adventure: Part 2 - Songkran Festival
The Songkran Festival takes place mid-April, starting on April 13th and lasting from three to five days, depending on where you are. Songkran is the…
SE Asia Adventures: Part 1 - Vientiane, Laos
Vientiane is the new capital of Laos, having been only made the capital 450 years ago. Because it's a small city with only about 700,000…
Video: Cycling the Mae Hong Son Loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNsUWBvASWk&t=51s Quickly becoming a more and more famous cycling route, no longer just for motorbikes. The Mae Hong Son Loop is a 650km circuit through…
Cycling the Mae Hong Son Loop
Chiang Mai, the largest city in the northern Thailand is not just an amazing city to spend a few days or weeks, but is also…
Luang Prabang, Laos
Luang Prabang: Inner peace and outer calm The ride to Luang Prabang was supposed to take up 4-5 hours through some amazing mountains and down…
Vang Vieng, Laos
Vang Vieng: More than a party spot We arrived in Vang Vieng mid-afternoon on the first day of Laos New Year. It was a great…
Vientiene, Laos
2 Days in Vientiane, Laos After more than 7 years since last being in Laos, my wife and I decided to do a week-long trip…
Along the Mekong: To Kampong Cham
At approximately 100km from Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham is a great weekend getaway for anyone wanting to get away from the constant traffic and noise of the big city. With lots of travel routes available to get there, there are good options available for all types of travellers.
Cycling the Coast to Kampot
Cycling the Coast to Kampot After hosting my friend Adam of the Cycling Two for two weeks, he decided that he would make his way…
Japan: Shikoku Photo Gallery
It can be challenging to find rural places in Japan to cycle, but the route across Shikoku Island follows a fertile valley across the island.…
Japan: Shikoku Island - Osaka to Hiroshima
Cycling from Osaka to Hiroshima via the beautiful Shikoku Island This post is a throwback to 2015, when I decided to cycle from Osaka to…
Indonesia - Part 5: Bali to Gili Islands to Lombok
The Final Two Weeks After the massive push to get to Denpasar in 4 days, I was really happy to have reached Bali, the legendary…
Indonesia - Part 4: Malang to Denpassar
4 day Race to Bali The day before I was going to leave Malang I was talking to a British couple and they were telling…
Indonesia - Part 3: Kediri to Malang
Kediri to Malang (115km) Kediri as a nice little city. I managed to go to a festival that happened to be going on and saw…
Indonesia - Part 2: Yogyakarta to Kediri
Yogyakarta to Solo (68km) I decided to go to Surakarta (Solo) for my 1st bike leg. Only 68km away on a flat road. About 2.5…
Indonesia - Part 1: Yogyakarta
This post is copied over from an old site I was building. This trip took place in 2012 during the winter break from my teaching…