#biketouring
I think it’s finally cycling season for this fair weather cyclist. Not pictured here is my new @brooksengland saddle. Anyone else been getting out more now that the weather is warming up?
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One of the reasons I love travelling by bike so much is you get to take in your surroundings at a slower pace, and notice things you might miss in a car. You can also stop with a lot less fuss. While bike touring through Spain and Portugal last year I couldn’t get enough of the crazy colours, textures, tiles and patterns on the front of the buildings there. Here are some of my favourites.
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So happy to have a story featured in issue #16 of Boneshaker magazine. This is one of the nicest looking bike mags out there with some great bicycle related stories and I’ve wanted to do something for these guys since I first picked up a copy. Great work chaps, and thanks for my new cap.
Take a look at the full story of myself and a friend dragging bike trailors and surfboards through Spain and Portugal here.
Buy the mag here.
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Most girls my age get excited about things like new fancy purses and I’m all over here super stoked about my new ortlieb touring bags lol!! #ortlieb #cycling #biking #biketouring #bike #justbike #stoked #chicksthatbike
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Just out for a beautiful stroll! #cycling #training #specialized #fitness #fitlife #workout #healthnut #getoutside #adventure #biketouring #pnw #upperleftusa #adventureaday
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. - James Michener
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Our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. They always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. - Winnie the Pooh
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Trust me, it’s paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it. - Richard, ‘The Beach’ (Alex Garland)
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I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
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I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. - Storm Jameson
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It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. - Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
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When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family. - Drew Bundini Brown
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. - Freya Stark
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As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are! - Unknown
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. - Italo Calvino
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. - J.R.R Tolkien
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