Bicycle touring

bicycle touring

While living on the road we have learned much about ourselves and how other people live in these countries, it has been really interesting to se the cultures mix with history and religion. We started with bicycle touring for this reason to be close to the people and nature. Being able to set your own pace and stop when and where you want. This goal has really been met until now and Bicycle touring is the right way to travel for us.

Before we sat of on the big journey east we had used about 2 years to plan, save up, practise, find the right gear for bicycle touring.

We started with som weekends on the road on our old bicycles which were good but not strong enough so we needed to find a new bicycle for us both, in the Netherlands we have a big selection brands designed for bicycle touring. We were on a mission to find the bicycle we liked and we found them Mojo and Isaba both a Santos travelmaster 2.6.

After we had found the right bicycle for touring we planed on a test trip where we could test our selves as we had never cycled in the mountains so we looked in to possibilities and found the pyrenees a good place to go not to far and with great roads to cycle. We could also test our tent which is still going strong the MSR Hubba Hubba HP and great tent.

After the trip to the pyrenees we started planning, Our idea becoming real, part 1 and Our idea becoming real, part 2 this prosess of planing a long journey of bicycle touring was very interesting. We found many useful resources on the internet this site TravellingTwo.com is nice to begin with for more see our links 

While on the road there are some admistrative issues such as visa’s you can read about how we got our iranian visa and others for the stans in the post here Iranian and Central Asian visa Information.

Have fun on the road and enjoy the time there as you only get on chance. This page is mainly made for google to make sure you will find our resources and we hope it helped you on your way.