Summary: Date: May 22 - June 2, 2023 Country: Portugal Distance: 556.30 km Elevation Gain: 4817 m Our two-week adventure through Central Portugal marked our first long-distance cycling trip since 2019. Portugal was an ideal choice due to its captivating blend of rich history and stunning landscapes. After a flight from Vienna to Lisbon, we... Continue Reading →
Summary: Date: Jan 2, 2023 Country: Hungary Distance: 32.96km Elevation Gain: 479m We started the new year in 2023 with our Bromptons to explore some parts of the Bakony mountains in Hungary, near Zoltan’s hometown. During the trip we kept realizing again and again how practical and capable these small-wheeled bikes are. Today the... Continue Reading →
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Slashed by hundreds of waterways Vietnam’s Mekong Delta looks like an ideal place to settle for vanquished and persecuted. It’s no wonder that many of the Cham after the Vietnamese gradually destroyed their various state formations between the 15th and 19th centuries sought refuge here. Since today the Cham constitute the country’s most significant Muslim... Continue Reading →
We had 5 days off that we could carve out of our working lives, and of course, we wanted to make a short cycling trip. At this time we wanted something laidback, with beaches and good food. South Thailand, and more specifically the area of Songkhla, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Surat Thani came as a... Continue Reading →
Indonesia is amazing… I experience this again and again. At this time my passion for bikepacking led me to Madura, just off to the northeastern shores of Java. I spent four days exploring this island, which is connected to Surabaya city by a bridge, yet it is an entirely different world. Cycling to the graves... Continue Reading →
Bikepacking takes time, and we usually don’t have that much holidays to do more than two week-long trips in a year. Yet, to be able to do some exploring I brought my Genesis Croix de Fer with myself to a three-week work trip to the Philippines. I did some amazing one-day rides in the mountains... Continue Reading →
Experience first hand the road taken from Singapore to some of the Royal Graves in Johor. Watch the video now! https://youtu.be/Di8vVcimEJI If you want a copy of the .gpx file for this trip, drop us a mail in Contact Us page
I did another long day trip to further explore the Sultanate of Johor. I set the aim to reach an old mausoleum of 16th-century Muslim royals and notables at Sayong Pinang, about 60km north of the Singapore/Malaysia border crossing. This time, instead of my sub-8kg carbon Giant TCR I hopped on my steel touring rig,... Continue Reading →
Long, one-day rides can be very nice adventures when time is too short to go for multi-day or week tours. Singapore provides the cyclist several great opportunities for this if s/he is willing to pedal 150-200km. It’s easy to take a ferry to one of the Riau Islands early morning and come back at night,... Continue Reading →
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