touring

Having had lots of "fun" with my Garmin whilst touring, I'm keen to try running Komoot directly on an android phone instead. I already have I phone for day to day use and comms, so just looking for a cheapish android, with good battery life that would run Komoot. Any experience/suggestions...

Pretty much as the title suggests, I'm looking to get some wider, knobblier tyres for my steel adventure/light touring bike and have been debating going tubeless. I've got 'UST-ready' rims (mavic XM419) and like the idea of low-pressure tyres for light off-roading, but there doesn't seem to be...

OK first recumbent tour this summer to euro velo route from Roscoff towards Nantes. Not far each day because a 5 year old is with us. I don't know the route but believe it's canal paths, riverside routes, old railway lines and minor roads. So I'm expecting tarmac hard packed gravel, a little...

NOW SOLD. Thanks

Bicycle Touring and I am getting athlete's foot: foot fungus I need Help with feedback on athlete's foot: foot fungus What would you do if you got athlete's foot: foot fungus when you are out on a Bicycle Touring Trips? Last 3 year's I have been using the Merrell Moab mid Waterproof Hiking...

Anyone got such a slice of early 90s nostalgia gathering dust? Would look at a complete bike if cheap enough.

This is excellent: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUlj6eTehA&feature=youtu.be

UK, France, Spain, Monaco, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and now I land in Mumbai on May 30. Out of all the places I have cycled so far, Turkey has been number 1, followed by Greece, then France, UK, Spain. My least favourite being Italy. I must be crazy, as I haven't heard from anyone who has cycled...

I am Re-Thinking about Clipless Pedals for Bicycle Touring Feedback is helpful and Appreciated I have tried the Shimano M545 DH Platform Clipless SPD Pedals has Pop-Up Binding Pivoting pedal cage allows SPD binding to "pop up" for easy cleat entry. Removable Cage Design Pedal can be used with...

I'm selling my Surly LHT as I never use it. The bike has only done a handful of rides as is essentially as new. Tubus racks front and rear, Mavic A719 rims, Shimano XT hubs, Shimano SORA triple groupset, Deda bars and stem, Zipp seatpost, Continental Gatorhardshell folding 32mm tyres, KMC chain...

Need fast rolling 700 tyres in about 32-40mm size , something like 35-37mm (what I have currently) would be the best. Have been looking at the Schwalbe Supreme or Almotion however can't really find them anywhere cheaper than £44 for a pair shipped for the Supremes Has anyone seen some decent...

Anyone Using the Soma Saga Disc Frameset? Feedback is helpful and Appreciated I am thinking about Disc Brakes and the Soma Saga Disc 26in 52cm Frameset to replace my Surly LHT 26in 52cm 2008 Frameset http://www.somafab.com/archives/product/saga-disc-frame-set-2 Adventure Cyclist Road Test...

I have a big Question about Wheelsets for Bicycle Touring? Feedback is helpful and Appreciated I am really like to get a 2nd Custom 26" Wheelset as a Spare Wheelsets in my Storage unit. And This is so I can get my 2013 Custom 26 Wheelset trued at the Bicycle Shop in San Diego, CA I have two...

I thought I was being very clever buying this Tifosi Classic audax bike for touring: Which ended up looking like this: However, the clearance was so terrible that the 28c tyres clogged up at the sniff of a muddy puddle. I realised it wasn't going to do. I now know that the kind of touring...

Paint condition and age unimportant so long as it's decent or half decent quality (531ST / Tange chromoly) is dent free has slotted cable guides, cantilever bosses, 11/8th threadless steerer, eyelets for racks and cages, vertical dropouts. Sloping top tube ideally. If it came with headset and a...

I'm trying to get travel insurance for a short touring holiday across the centre of Spain. I've got numerous quotes, but almost all of them link back to the same - or very similar - terms and conditions which cover as standard touring only up to a height of 1000m. The problem is that large...

OK. New secondhand recumbent owner with a good touring machine but previous model. This means manufacturer doesn't supply or make a rack that fits it. Seems the addition of an "e" at the end of the model name and switch from steel to Aluminium frame means they needed to design a new rack and...

Any recommendations, not to break the bank! TIA

Hello, I was following a route on saturday - the garmin was showing 0 seconds before I turned right. So I turned right. But then it started to show the distance to the point increasing (ie I was getting further away) - So I turned around and went looking for the right turn - got hopelessly lost...

*SOLD*

While I was cycletouring in the Nederlands last year I had someone in a bike shop install a new kickstand, longer, stronger and more effective than the previous one. He didn't put anything at all between frame and kickstand and must have tightened it very hard! The previous kickstand, also one...

Due to imminent loss of storage space, I've been forced to sell my cycles. Second machine available for sale, is my touring bike. This is a 1985 Copenhagen Pedersen. I bought it last February from a cycling friend. I've ridden it & displayed it. Frame size is 30 in. £875 (no offers)

NOW SOLD Reluctantly selling my 2015 Ridgeback Voyage due to buying a new bike. Running out of garage space! The bike is the same as the one pictured but comes with a handlebar bag, panniers, Cateye rack light, two bottle cages & Shimano A530 pedals. It has been converted to mini V brakes - a...

Only used for 15 dry road miles (Probably) The best all-round touring tyre of the last 2 decades £30 posted

The GPS coordinates on my Garmin touring is not a format I use and would like to change it. The photo is the current format. My workplace coordinates are 55.074060, 9.370745 and this is the format I would like to use I have got so far on the Garmin by using Menu - Systems- Units- Position...

Hi Everyone So it’s been a while since I have been on here and likewise a long time since I have done any real cycling. to motivate myself I have decided to tour from Maidstone in Kent to the Marloes in Pembrokeshire in September. I will be camping along the way and carrying everything on...

My edge touring seems incapable of following of route be that a gpx file or one directly from garmin connect - today it was worse than ever.... Any idea if this is sort able - I've got recalculation turned off and the software version is 4.20 Any suggests gratefully received...

Hi All, This is a record of a short trip undertaken around the Ijselmeer in Holland in February 2016. Introduction I’ve got six whole days off work thanks to the end of a night shift week coinciding with Carnaval - a major party here in the south of the Netherlands. I’m free from Friday at 6...

Hi. I'm after a touring bike that would fit 5'9 man. Sorted now. Thanks.