Links

Our Cycling Clubs

Addiscombe Cycling Club
Bec Cycling Club

Press Coverage (we’re famous!)

www.048.ua – Article published by Ukranian journalists in Odessa when they met us riding through in September 2011 (text in Russian)
www.smirnovo.info – Article published by Kazakh journalists in the small town of Smirnovo, between Petropavlovsk and Burabay from August 2012 (text in Russian)

Travellers We’ve Met

Friedel & Andrew – Canadian cyclists we met in Canada in summer 2009. We were at the end of our 3 week tour, they were at the end of their 3 year one!
Stephanie & Fabrice – French cyclists we met in France early in our 2011 trip, and at least 4 times thereafter across Europe (blog in French)
Marie-Lise & Paul – French Pino-ists we met in Vilnius in June 2012 (blog in French)
Kent Moller – motorbiker from Greenland that we met in Vilnius in June 2012 (mostly photos, some Danish text)
Ismael & Joanna – Swiss motorbikers we met in Latvia in June 2012 (blog in German)
Antoine & Elodie – French cyclists we met a couple of times in Russia in July 2012 (blog in French)
Nye, Tom & Nick – English cyclists we met at a bike shop in Almaty in September 2012
Yannick – French-Canadian motorbiker currently living and working in Almaty who we met in September 2012 (blog in French)
Veronique – Yannick’s girlfriend, who we haven’t met, but who rode through South America with her young son on a Pino (blog in French)
Charlie Walker – English guy we cycled with for a couple of days in September 2012 between Almaty and Bishkek who has been on the road for a couple of years and as well as cycling has walked from China to Mongolia where he bought a horse
Mary and Peter – We met Mary and Peter travelling in the opposite direction to us on the road from Almaty to Bishkek in September 2012
Martine and Dominique – French cyclists we met in a hostel in Bishkek in September 2012, going to China, then into Tibet (blog in French)
Arian and Moniek – Dutch cyclists we met in a hostel in Bishkek in September 2012, also going to China, but via Almaty
Laura and Ashley – Australian cyclists we met on the Kyrgyz/Chinese border in October 2012 and then tic-tacked with for the next 2 months as we crossed China together

Useful Resources For Travellers Like Us

JD Tandems – selling tandems for every occasion
TravellingTwo – everything you ever wanted to know about cycle-touring
Mark & Ju – more resources with lots of country specific information from their UK to Australia tour
WarmShowers – hospitality for cyclists by cyclists
CouchSurfing – sofas to sleep on around the globe
HorizonsUnlimited – complete travel resource for motorbikers but really useful for the rest of us too
Sheldon Brown – if you don’t know how to fix your bike, Sheldon does … or did, as sadly he’s no longer with us, but his legacy remains

Russia & Asia Resources

Real Russia – GB & Russia based agency offering travel and visa services to the Russian Federation
Caravanistan – a silk road travel guide or a one-stop resource for travel in the ‘stans
Yandex – for Russia & beyond, this picks up where google-maps leaves off, and works just as well with Cyrillic or Latin

Inspirational Video Clips

6tzen en Amerique – family of 6 travel the Americas on two Pinos
Gunther Holtorf – a news article on Gunther Holtorf’s 23 year road trip

Race Reports

Asy Plateau MTB Race Report – report from the MTB race that we rode in Kazakhstan in September 2012 (report in Russian)