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Touring Bikes
A Complete List of Rohloff Frame Options For Custom Touring Bike Builds
Do you like the idea of a custom Rohloff touring bike build? Well, a Rohloff frame may not be as expensive as you think – you can get yourself a...
What Is A Bikepacking Bike? Is It Different To A Standard Bike?
Move over panniers and racks. Bikepacking bags are becoming more commonplace in the world of bike travel, and so is the bikepacking bike. We've seen...
A Complete List of Gates Carbon Belt Drive Touring Bike Manufacturers
There's no doubt that Gates Carbon Belt Drive is an excellent drivetrain solution for long-distance touring bikes. I've got a belt drive touring bike...Custom Touring Bicycle Builds
Custom Touring Bicycles
English Cycles Aero Trans Am Bike: The Fastest Bikepacking Bike?
This Trans Am bike is probably as far from a typical touring bike as you'll see on CyclingAbout. But when Rob of English Cycles posted his personal...
This Chapman Cycles Touring Bike Perfectly Blends New Tech With The Past
This is not the first time I've featured a bike from Rhode Island framebuilder Brian Chapman. With smooth fillet brazing, neat lugs, custom made...
This Ultralight Fern Chuck And Matching Bag Set Is Unbelievably Lustworthy
Fern are a Berlin-based duo of bike travellers and good friends, who piece together touring bikes, components and, with the help of another friend...Travel Tips
2017 Touring Bikes
Videos
Folding Bikes
Carrying Luggage on a Folding Bike (Brompton, Tern, Dahon)
Folding bikes are great for travel, but are often a bit less capable at carrying loads than a...
Unfolding Thailand 8.5kg Gear List
I'm off to Thailand to discover some amazing new mountain roads on a Tern folding bike (review...
Guide: How To Choose The Best Folding Bike For Bicycle Touring
I've recently spent quite a lot of time playing with folding bikes on my overseas adventures. While...
Tandem Bikes
Tandem Trust, Trials and Tribulations: Panic Attacks on the Bike
In compliment to Alex's article on our soon-to-be-baby, 'Tan-nay-nay the Tandem...
Why we Chose Co-Motion to Build our Dream Tandem
Those readers who are into the bike and equipment aspect of CyclingAbout are probably wondering how...
Review: Gates Carbon Belt Drive CDC (Tandem)
When we purchased our tandem, the CDC design was the only belt available. From around 1000km the...
