Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide

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Take the trip of a lifetime! Touring by bicycle is fast becoming a popular option for the adventurous traveller who wants to escape the backpacker circuit and its long cramped bus rides. Expand your horizons with the Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook and turn your bicycle into a travelling machine capable of taking you on the trip of a lifetime—across a country, across a continent or even around the world.

Table of Contents

Part 1 — Practical Information

• How to plan and prepare for a long-distance trip
• What to look for in a new bike and reviews of some of the world's best touring- and trekking-bikes
• Adapting a standard bike for the Big Ride
• Choosing components, equipment for the road and review of camping gear
• Health precautions, inoculations, visas, money and safety

Part 2 — Trans-continental Route Outlines

• Across Europe, Asia, Australasia, North and South America
• Recommended routes within countries and overland
• Everything from popular routes (eg India's Leh-Manali Highway) to lesser-known cycle-touring areas such as Madagascar

Part 3 — Tales From the Saddle

Ten first-hand accounts of spoke-bending biking adventures worldwide. Battling against the elements on epic journeys in Siberia, the Sahara, Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, Costa Rica, South America and many more. Plus the historic account of a cycle ride across Europe on a wooden-wheeled bicycle in 1929.

Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide