Key learnings from the Mae Hong Son Loop

A couple of weeks ago Jo and I cycled with some colleagues from work around the Mae Hong Son loop. It was a wonderful trip - epic climbs, hair-raising descents and a near-constant parade of impossibly beautiful vistas. Our companions on this...

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Useful resources when planning a big cycle tour

Trawling through the internet I've stumbled across so many useful resources for planning a trip like ours. We are not the first to have a dream like this, and it's reassuring to hear how other people have done it. Here's a list of some of the things...

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Proposed Route

I've spent a good deal of time looking ar possible routes for our adventure. There are loads of blogs and chat forums about, it's difficult to know where to start. We more or less plan to do a reverse of the DHL Race to the RWC (but without taking in...

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Planning for a post-COVID world

It won't have escaped your notice that the world is on lockdown at the moment and that there's little prospect of the restrictions lifting any time soon. I'm starting to feel rather glad that we tendered our resignations from December this year,...

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Kit List

A good part of the fun in preparing for a trip like this is making all the preparations beforehand. I've pored over the kit taken by other long-distance cyclists - always a feature of their blogs. We've also done some big cycles before, and have...

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Caveat Emptor

It's now out in the public domain that we're doing this ride. We've handed in our notice for December 2020 and started telling people what our plans are. I can barely contain my excitement, but the response from others has been mixed. Some, as...

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