Touring

Five day rides in the Chicago to Minneapolis corridor, with distances, what each one is like, and the season windows that decide...

Highway 61 from Duluth to the Canadian border, 150 miles of Lake Superior shore, the state park stops, fuel gaps and the...

A 162-mile Mississippi loop from the Twin Cities on US 61 and WIS 35, with bridge crossings, village fuel gaps and the...

A 78-mile loop on Stagecoach Trail and US 20 through the corner of Illinois the glaciers missed, with Charles Mound access rules...

Sheridan Road from Lincoln Park north to Racine, about 68 miles one way, with the Illinois Beach stop, traffic realities and the...

Seven roads worth a day out of San Francisco or Sacramento — the coast, Mount Tam, Mount Hamilton, Highway 49 and Skyline,...

Placerville to Nevada City in 54 miles of Gold Rush two-lane — the Coloma run, the American River canyon at Auburn, plus...

Route 130 climbs 21 miles from San Jose to 4,200 feet with 367 turns in the last seven — grade, closures, the...

Golden Gate Bridge to Jenner in 72 miles of two-lane — the wooded Marin climb, the Tomales Bay run, the Bodega bluffs,...

Panoramic Highway to Ridgecrest and the 2,571-foot East Peak, then down to Stinson Beach — a 38-mile loop with fog, cyclists and...

The Katara Pass, Zagori, the Taygetus crossing, the Mani coast and Crete's Imbros gorge, plus how ferries, tolls and seasons fit together.

What the A90 north coast road really is, the Imbros gorge crossing to Sfakia, the Psiloritis climb, and the ferries and fuel...

Four buckets — fixed, per day, per distance, contingency. How to build each from your own measurements, what riders forget, and where...

Solo buys freedom and carries the whole risk. Groups buy redundancy and cost you pace. The disciplines each mode needs, and how...

Stop every 90 minutes on a fixed rhythm, before fatigue shows. What professional driving limits imply for riders, the warning signs, and...

Plan in saddle hours and convert with your own measured average. Why mileage decays after day two, what each road type costs,...

Pack for three days whatever the trip length, then add consumables and one seasonal layer system. Payload maths, a length-by-length table, what...

Security, weight, width, drop behaviour and real waterproofing compared. How to work out your payload from the GVWR label and why rack...

The on-bike kit that fixes what actually stops a ride — punctures, loose fasteners, fuses and cables — and how to trim...

Full-dress tourers buy comfort with roughly 200 kg of mass. What that weight does, where it wins, where it loses, and how...

Wind protection, seat, range and luggage decide a long day, not capacity. Which classes tour well, and why the full-dress tourer is...

Scandinavia for riders: Norway, Iceland, Vildmarksvagen, Lapland and the Faroes, plus wildlife risk, midnight sun riding and the ferry links.

Riding Finnish Lapland: reindeer collision numbers and hotspots, the duty to call 112, midnight sun riding hours, the E75 north, fuel gaps...

Riding Sweden: moose collision numbers and seasons, what the law requires after a hit, Vildmarksvagen over Stekenjokk, and using the summer light.