These Links are Church inspected, and Church approved. This is not a cut and paste from a search engine, though search engines were used. All the below links have been viewed by church members. These are links that The Church has found to be informative and interesting bike touring sites. These are not links to commpanies selling packaged tours, they are links to sites by individuals who have ridden their bikes and made sites to tell about their trips.

Trento Bike Pages These guys have a one of the most extensive bike touring sites out there. Self described as "the portal for bicycle touring and recreational mountain biking in Europe and the Mediterranean." Well organized, and great photos, The Church highly reccomends this site. http://www-math.science.unitn.it/Bike/

Thomas Driemeyer, Bike Tours • A computer guy who has done a lot of touring. France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, New England, and The U.S. West coast. Pictures, logs and maps. A good read. http://www.bitrot.de/bike.html

Tallabomba's Europe to Asia By Bike • This site is about Tallabomba's trip from Sweden to South-East Asia via Eastern Europe, The Middle East, Pakistan, China, and Tibet. It contains general information and links on bicycle touring and travelling in general. http://tallabomba.ambiprospect.com/

Mayq • Presently in his "young" sixties, Q. May has developed this site to share biking knowledge, some not available elsewhere, and opinion. Good tips. Emphasis on France. http://www.mayq.com/

KarlsPlanet.com - Central Europe by bike 2002 - a travelogue • On these pages Karl writes about his bike tour from Stockholm to Budapest - over Berlin, Praque, Passau, Vienna and Krakow - in the summer of 2002. http://karlsplanet.com

To China on Two Wheels • A journey by bicycle through Europe, Siberia, Mongolia & China. This is a new site. Edwards' trip started Feb 22, 2004, so there's not a lot of 411 yet. At age 26 he is settin off solo for an estimated 13,000 mile trip. Good luck. http://www.2wheels.org.uk/ride/index.asp

Bike Touring Around the World - the 7 year burget travel bike tour • An online bicycle touring story of how they saved their money, quit their jobs, sold their possessions, and set off to budget travel arount the world on a multi year bikee tour adventure. It started in Prescott, Arizona on March 30, 2002. Real people, no sag. http://downtheroad.org

Crazy Guy on a Bike • A free, non commercial website dedicated to bicycle journals from all over the world. What started as his own journal of his ride across America during the long hot summer of 1998 has become a resource of experiences and resources for bicycle tourists everywhere. http://www.crazyguyonabike.com

Bike Touring in Central Asia • Bob Egan and Dave Clopton ride from Panfilov, Kazakstan, to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Very well written account of what it's like to travel in Central Asia. Great Photographs. http://www.hullsgrove.com

Tibet by Tandem • In the summer of 97, Martin and Frans traveled by tandem bike from Kunming, Yunnan, China to Kathmandu, Nepal, via Tibet. They were the first ever to travel the famous Lhasa-Katmandu highway through the Hilalayas by tandem bike. Great photos, slow loading. http://cornelis.med.rug.nl/Tibet/

Over the Mountains - Photos from the Karokoram Highway, 1996 • Steve Bougerolle Rides the Karokoram Highway and takes alternative routes. Something guide books say not to do. Great 411, great photos. http://www.bougerolle.net/travel/kkh.html

The Worlds Highest Roads: Cycling the Manali-Leh Highway in the Himalayas • The title kind of says it all. Four guys reach 18,380 feet in 2001. Great photos, but the links should be bigger to do them justice. http://www.sentient-entity.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Bicycle Vietnam • Cyclists touring Vietnam, starting in Hanoi, 2001. Good 411, light on the photos. http://www.veloasia.com/maloy_story.html.

Biking Southeast Asia with Mr Pumpy - the rides, the roads, the facts • Great site, informative, a must read if you plan on riding in Cambodia, Southern India, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, or Indonesia. http://www.mrpumpy.net

 

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