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Friedel and Andrew

Planning a bike tour? This site is all about inspiring and helping you to get out and travel by bike.

It’s written by us, Friedel & Andrew. We’ve cycled in 33 countries and by 2010 we’d covered over 60,000km. At that point, we stopped counting but on average we cycle 4,000-5,000km a year.

Where to start? That’s a good question. This website contains hundreds of articles and resources.

We recommend you start by downloading a free preview of our Bike Touring Survival Guide.

You may also want to read some of the most popular articles on this website.

  1. Inspiration To Take Your First Bicycle Tour (also recommended: the Sweet Life of Bicycle Touring)
  2. How Much A Bike Tour Will Cost
  3. The $100 Touring Bike (or why you don’t need an expensive bike to go touring)
  4. Ten Places To Ride Your Bike Before You Die
  5. A Lightweight Packing List (see also A Simple Packing List, Packing Tips For Women and Overpacking: What One Bike Tourist Left Behind)
  6. Packing A Bike In A Cardboard Box For Flying
  7. Flying With A Bicycle In A Plastic Bag 
  8. Tips For Packing Bicycle Panniers
  9. Best Tires For Bike Touring
  10. What You Need To Know About Panniers
  11. Choosing Luggage Racks For Touring
  12. Advice For Wild Camping
  13. Insurance For Bicycle Tours

Get in Touch if you still don’t see what you’re looking for. We’d love to share what we know and help plan your next cycling trip.

Bike. Camp. Cook: An Interview With A Bike-Touring, Food-Loving Author

http://travellingtwo.com/14132

During our bike touring adventures, two of the people we communicated most with were Tara and Tyler – another couple also going around the world at roughly the same time. We’ve yet to meet them in person but always kept in touch and helped each other out with information as we travelled. One of the read more...

Making Time For Family Adventures

http://travellingtwo.com/14144

When people ask us what the hardest part of cycling around the world was, it seems they expect us to tell a story about some great hardship suffered underway. Troubles with people. Getting lost. Poor food. But our answer is simply this: the hardest part was making the decision to go. read more...

One More Kid On The Way (And Possibly A Bike Too)

http://travellingtwo.com/14094

Three years ago our son Luke was born and our lives changed. When we started bike touring, it was hard to imagine that a few years later we’d be taking a third little cyclist along for the ride on weekend trips, across Europe and even as far away as Cuba. Family bike adventures are certainly a read more...

New Gear From Europe’s Biggest Bike Fair

http://travellingtwo.com/14065

We just spent a day wandering around one of Europe’s biggest cycling fairs, the Fiets en Wandelbeurs in Amsterdam. Three-year-old Luke was tagging along and this limited our time to look around. We couldn’t honestly say that we stopped at more than half of the stands but we still managed to make a few discoveries, read more...

Alpa Adria Radweg: One of Europe’s Best Bike Paths

http://travellingtwo.com/14050

Have a week free this summer? Then you might want to check out the Alpa Adria Radweg, which runs 410km from the Austrian city of Salzburg to Grado in Italy, on the Adriatic coast. read more...

15 Tips For Happy Bike Tours With A Toddler

http://travellingtwo.com/14043

In May 2014, we spent 3 weeks cycling around Switzerland. Now, some 7 months later, we’ve finally found time to put together a little film of our trip: 15 Ways To Entertain A Toddler On A Bike Tour. read more...

Dreaming of a Bike Tour? see our Survival Guide