Tag: Cycling

  • Tweet: June 03, 2014 at 09:50PM

    This was the McDonald #lonelycyclist #cycletrippin http://ift.tt/S4kyHu — Torbjorn Zetterlund (@mrfindmore) June 3, 2014

  • Cycletrippin Day 5: Chalon-sur-Saône to Vienne

    Cycletrippin Day 5 started this morning from Michel’s house in Châtenoy-le-Royal, France. Michel has a home business of building sailboats and has 3 sons in their early twenties who all live at home. Currently, they’re studying but have a hard time finding a job. Michel mentioned that the boys are thinking of going to Canada.

  • Cycletrippin Day 4: Neufchâteau to Chalon-sur-Saône via Dijon

    Cycletrippin Day 4: Neufchâteau to Chalon-sur-Saône via Dijon

    Cycletrippin Day 4 was going to be a rest day. I had forgotten that I had booked a room through Airbnb so I set off toward Dijon, with my destination being Chalon-sur-Saône, which is in the Bourgogne region of France. It was a long ride and by the time I got to Dijon, it was…

  • Cycletrippin Day 3: Amneville to Neufchâteau

    Cycletrippin Day 3: Amneville to Neufchâteau

    Cycletrippin Day 3 started early in Amneville where I stayed the night. The first part of the ride was easy; I followed the river Moselle and went on dedicated bike paths that google maps provided me with. The only issue was that google maps recommended any path as a bike path so I ended up…

  • Cycletrippin Day 2: Aachen to Amneville

    Cycletrippin Day 2: Aachen to Amneville

    My cycletrippin today went from Aachen to Amneville, I crossed 5 countries! The day started in Germany, cycled up to Drielandenpunt (the point where Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium connect), then I went through Belgium, Luxembourg before finally entering France.

  • What do you need to pack to go on a long bike ride

    Since I’m preparing for my bike ride from Amsterdam to Spain, I thought I would share what preparations you need to make to survive on a long bike ride like this. Firstly and most importantly, you will need a good bike. I am using my modified racing bike for this trip. Instead of racing tires,…

  • I love a challenge

    I love a challenge

    I love a challenge, I been a bit lazy lately in my training, my bike training is on track, the running and swimming portion of triathlon have been suffering, there is going to be a change.

  • Cycletrippin – Amsterdam to Sant Hilari Sacalm in Spain

    This is to let you all now that I’m setting out on a bike ride this Friday, May 30th, I will be cycling to Sant Hilari Sacalm in Spain. I will be using this blog to keep my family, friends, and others interested up to date about my whereabouts. I’ll be tweeting during the daily…

  • Amsterdam to Vlissingen – 198 Km

    Amsterdam to Vlissingen – 198 Km

    Only two weeks tills my bike ride to Spain, took a ride to Vlissingen to get some mileage in the legs, took me about 9 hours to get to Vlissingen Station. I can now tick off the Vlissingen bike ride, I have always wanted to do it since I was down in Vlissingen 3 years…

  • Got a Dynamo for my bike

    Got a Dynamo for my bike

    One of the problems I have had on long bike rides is that my mobile phone runs out of battery, and I have no GPS to help me in navigation. One of the reasons my phone run out of battery time is the fact that when GPS enables the battery consumes more power.