This page was last updated Mo 23 September 2024.
Contents: Tours (17)
All descriptions are in English, unless otherwise noted.
Tour of Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein
tour started June 2021, submitted 20 September 2024 From June 12th to July 6th, Boen, Arturo and I conducted a tour of Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Liechtenstein's mountains. Boen and I rode 823 miles and climbed 73,184 feet in elevation. We rode 18 major passes, took 2 rest days, and had 2 days interrupted by rain. Arturo had 2 flat tires, 1 lost bike radar, and Boen and I suffered 1 broken headlight. One of the Italian passes was bus assisted, and we took train rides from Oberwald to Hospental (for the road closure over Furka Pass), Merano to Mals and from Buchs to Linthal. This is the index page for the day by day trip report, equipment reviews, and other reflections on the trip. |
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Riding Stelvio on a Triplet
tour started June 2022, submitted 14 September 2022 A tour of Switzerland, Italy, and Austria on a triplet tandem (with support from an e-bike). As far as I know we're the first (and only) triplet to have done the climb on a triplet, with children under 11 (the children were 7 and 10 on the day of the climb). |
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Tour Across Bavaria
tour started June 2019, submitted 8 August 2019 In June 2019, I took both my sons (4 and 7) on a triplet from Zurich to Salzburg. My wife came along on a rented e-bike. The trip covered 372 miles, much of it along the Bodensee-Konigsee bike route. |
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Fixed base tour of Mallorca and Girona
tour started April 2018, submitted 30 May 2019 A fixed based tour of Mallorca, followed by a fixed based tour of Girona, with a couple of days in Barcelona in between. |
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Mountain touring with a 6 year old on a tandem
tour started June 2018, submitted 24 August 2018 From June 14th to July 3rd, Bowen, who at the time was 6 years old, and I traveled in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Liechtenstein on a tandem bicycle. We cycled 639 miles (1028km) and made 39,402 feet (12010m) of elevation gain. We had 5 train transfers, 1 taxi transfer, and 2 flat tires, with no days of riding in the rain. |
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Manchester to London
tour started July 2017, submitted 11 August 2017 My 5 year old son and I rode from Manchester Airport to London via Hindhead. We rode for 10 days, 350 miles, and did 13,000 feet of climb. We visited Ironbridge, the Costwolds, and Oxford along the way. |
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Tour of the Alps 2016
tour started July 2016, submitted 12 October 2016 From July 5th to July 26th, along with Arturo Crespo and Pengtoh Sim, I covered 1988km of riding with 35310m of climbing in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, and France. We had 2 flat tires, 1 minor mechanical on Arturo Crespo's bike, one major upgrade on Peng-Toh Sim's bike. We rode every day, with one rest day in Baden-Baden with relatively minor riding. |
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Self-supported Tour of the Alps 2014
tour started July 2014, submitted 20 August 2014 This is the tour report for my 2014 Tour of the Alps. Hina Naseer and Arturo Crespo joined me for the trip, which took us through Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Lichtenstein. The trip was 1687.12 km (1048 miles) and 32969. 6m (108168 feet) of climb in 22 riding days, of which we had 3 days interrupted by weather and 1 day interrupted by a crash. We had 1 flat tire and1 mechanical due to a derailleur cable coming loose. My bike got lost in transit on the way to Zurich costing us a full day and a half of riding. |
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Car supported Tour of the Alps 2011
tour started June 2011, submitted 19 August 2014 A supported tour of the alps through France, then a self-supported ride through Italy and Austria with a run into Germany to avoid rain. |
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Tour of Switzerland and Austria
tour started June 2010, submitted 30 July 2010 Cynthia Wong, Kekoa Proudfoot, Phil Sung, Lisa and I just returned from the Tour of the German Speaking Alps. As tours go, the statistics were unusually bad: we got in 945 miles and 88,916 feet of climbing, of which 13,879 came from 4 hikes we did in Switzerland, meaning we got in only 75,037 feet of climb on the bike. We only had 2 flat tires, both of which were caused by a bad tire blowing out on descents. We did lose almost a week to rain, and another 3 days due to a number of us (myself including) getting sick on tour. |
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Tour of Hokkaido 2009
tour started August 2010, submitted 10 March 2010 On August 25th, Yana & Mark Ivey, Brooks Sizemore and I did a Bicycle Tour of Hokkaido (the northern-most big Island of Japan). The ride totaled 1532.3km of riding and 15,300m of climb over 18 riding days, during which we got 2 flat tires, neither of which could be attributed to the condition of Japan's roads. (All tracks were recorded by my Garmin 76CSx, and you download all the tracks in a zipped package) |
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2003 Tandem Tour of the Alps
tour started June 2003, submitted 8 November 2009 A tandem tour of the Alps, starting from Munich, then riding through Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. |
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Tour Across France 2008
tour started September 2008, submitted 18 October 2009 At the end of August in 2008, Mike Samuel, Roberto Peon and I toured across France, starting in Hendaye on the Spanish border, and then riding across the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast. There, we took a train transfer to Montpellier, and then rode North through Languedoc, Provence, and the Rhone Alps to Bourg-en-Bresse and then Geneva. The journey totaled 1047 miles with 92949 feet of elevation gain. |
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Tour of Hokkaido
tour started August 2009, submitted 29 September 2009 4 of us toured Hokkaido, starting from Chitose, over to the North East Section and return. We visited several National Parks along the way, and many hot springs. But the main attraction was the Japanese people and their friendliness. |
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Tour of the Alps 2007
tour started June 2007, submitted 20 July 2007 A lightweight tour of the Swiss, Italian, and Austrian alps, 1501km, 33047m of climbing, and several passes. |
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Tour of the French Alps (Geneva to Nice)
tour started June 2005, submitted 2 November 2005 A tour of the French Alps, from Geneva to Nice, returning via the Piemont plains of Italy, followed by a visit to various climbs in Switzerland. |
A tour of Scotland
tour started May 1995 |