Bike

A selfie photograph of a smiling woman, Sophie Walker, with the background of valley up to Newlands Pass.

22 August 2024

All Points North 2024

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Sophie Walker takes on All Points North 2024 battling weather, steep climbs and painful hips.

Photograph of a yellow bicycle leaning against a dry stone wall

25 February 2016

Hard to Write

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Returning after a year of adventure, Sophie and Tom grapple with the challenges of settling back, the difficulty of writing, and the journeys they embarked upon.

15 November 2015

The Statistical Analysis of a Cycle Tour

Tom Passmore Bike, Going Home, Musings, Stats 3

For nearly 9 months we have been cycle touring around the U.S.A, Canada and, to much lesser extent, Mexico. Today we want to tell you the real reason we have been on this journey; to gather, collate and analyse data of the trip to give you folks an interesting insight in to the numbers. Whooo!!! […]

13 November 2015

Roadside Meltdown

Sophie Walker Bike, Rest Day, Touring 2

Saturday morning was thankfully and luckily not rainy. I can’t say it was dry as there was still a lot of water about from the previous hours of torrential onslaught, but the stuff had at least ceased to fall from the sky. We were soon loaded up and on our way Cobá. Outside of Tulum […]

8 November 2015

Scuppered Schedules, Sunburn and Snorkeling

Sophie Walker Bike, Rest Day 3

Yes we said we were going to wring out the last drops of excitement and fun from our trip and we had all intention to hop on the bikes the morning after the last post and pedal South to Laguna Bacalar. Then we got an offer to go to Akumal with Meg, the Coloradan from […]

Photograph of Sophie Walker underwater smiling with thumbs up

1 November 2015

Plans Are Made For Changing

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My motto, or at least one of them, is ‘plans are made for changing’. I love making plans; they give you something to work toward, something to aim for, look forward to. But I don’t believe in being tied to them. And I don’t think this is because I’m a quitter and give up, I […]

30 October 2015

Negotiating Changes

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Many of you will remember Tom’s post Cycle Touring Fatigue where he talked about having a tough time of it; the stress of the uncertainty, the boredom of the routine of the bike tour, the lack of knowledge acquisition and intellectual stimulus. Not to mention his most recent post “What Constitutes a Failed Cycle Tour?” […]

Photograph of Tom Passmore resting on a wall next to his yellow bike

28 October 2015

What Constitutes a Failed Cycle Tour?

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Tom Passmore’s introspective cycling adventure: challenges, doubts, and the quest for success. Is it a failed cycle tour?

Photograph of Tom Passmore cycling along a Mexican road with a sigh to Tulum

26 October 2015

¿Hablas Español?

Tom Passmore Bike, Rest Day, Spanish, Touring 3

We managed to ride from Playa del Carmen to Tulum without getting any punctures or heavily rained on. The road was much the same as the previous day – good quality dual carriage way with a decent shoulder – and we were in Tulum by noon. Though we’d been sent a map of the location […]

18 October 2015

Hola Mexico!

Tom Passmore Bike, Equipment, Rest Day, Touring 1

I was stressing a bit about bike boxes before we got them. The boxes we got when we were leaving the UK were too small and it was only due to good fortune that we were able to get bigger ones from the bike shop in Glossop (see Leaving the UK: The Last Few Stumbling […]