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Jan Boonstra's cycling pages

The first cycling tour I made was in 1962. It was about 1000 kilometers and I crossed all over The Netherlands in 10 days. Since then, I have made cycling tours in 31 countries and have kept daily logs during those trips since 1969. A few of these logbooks were used partly or completely, together with photographs taken, to prepare websites. The following sites are available in English:

Cycling in Thailand: The first part of my Bangkok - Singapore trip in 1995
Cycling in Malaysia: The second part of my Bangkok - Singapore trip in 1995
A cycling tour in western Japan: A clickable map of western Japan with references to photographs and short stories, made during my cycling tour through Korea and Japan in July 1993.
Cycling in Korea: Index to general information about cycling in South Korea, as well as tour reports, photographs and maps.
Australia by bicycle: Account of my tour from Darwin to Melbourne in 40 days through the Australian desert in May, June, 1994. Presented as a picture book of 27 pages.
The New Zealand experience: A summary of my impressions during my 2 cycling tours in the North- and South Island of New Zealand in January 1997 and December. It contains also a detailed map of the route and links to photographs.
The great descent: About a Sunday afternoon bicycle ride in Namibia in 1998.
Japan 2000: My second ride in southwestern Japan, together with two friends from the USA.
Singapore Cycling: A large source of information for bicycle touring in, and especially around, Singapore.

Then, I have made a collection of bicycle graphics, pictures that I picked hither and thither from the internet.

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Trip reports and bicycle touring info from Europe

Trento Bike Pages: The most well known bicycle site in Europe and gives lots of information related to cycling.
Jørn's cycling homepage: Jørn Dahl-Stamnes can help you to find out anything about cycling in Norway.
Minko Oh's touring reports: The bicycle touring reports of Minko Oh in the western U.S. and Canada, as well as southern Europe and Scandinavia. Also reports from other cyclists. A small but beautiful website.
Hiking and Biking: Beautiful page of Ant Bijlsma and Peter Reuderink from The Netherlands. Despite the graphics, it is fast loading and provides very pleasant reading, not only about bicycle touring, but also about hiking in general.
AQ-Cycling: The Dutchman Dennis Waterman cycled a lot (in Europe) and he gives very detailed information about the routes he followed on some of his trips. The introduction page contains a very interesting essay about climbs and col classification.
Just a Cyclin' Fool: David Weingarten from the USA was in the middle of a trans-continental bicycle tour when he started this site. He finished it and this site contains his experiences and advices to others.
Allan's Cycling Stuff: Two Englishmen found each other to share a passion: cycling in Italy and look what a beautiful and complete account they made of it! It resulted in three excellent travelogues. And there's more...
Europe by Bike...Part I: London to Budapest: A Canadian couple, Glenn and Sheila Ord, made their entertaining account of exploring Europe by bicycle.
Europe by Bike...Part II: Budapest to Gibraltar: Continuation of the above account.
Collection of Bicycle Tours: Karl Brodowsky made an excellent collection of (mostly) European Bike-touring Travelogues.
Cycling tours in Austria: Excellent information about cycling routes in Europe's no. 1 bicycle touring promoting country: Austria.
Land's End - John o'Groats: If you plan to do Britain's most famous 'end-to-end' ride, you definitely have to visit this site with an account of the ride and lots of practical info.
Riding Paris-Brest-Paris 1995: A personal memoir, by Matthew Chachère of the world's the oldest traditional cycling event.
Den Store Styrkeprøven: And while talking about famous European tours, let's not forget Scandinavian's most well known event: the yearly Trondheim - Oslo tour (It's the only organised tour I ever participated in!).
Marco Guizzardi's cycling tours: very attractive travelogues from Scotland, Germany, France, Ireland and his home country: Italy
Europe is small: claims a touring club from Eindhoven, The Netherlands and seven members started an initiative to prove this.
Amics de la bici: A page full of info about cycling in Barcelona, Spain
Cycling Belgium's Waterways: Dan Gamber discovered Belgium's best kept bicycle touring secret: the paths along the waterways. Now his objective is to create a comprehensive cycling guide for it.
Cycling Sideways: The bicycle touring resource for cyclists visiting Wales and the Welsh Borders of England, UK. Travel and tourist info, train timetable links, etc.
Amsterdam to Budapest by bike: Martin Brennan from the USA made a very attractive photographic account of his European bike experience
Team Snail's Bicycle Adventure Through the South of France: These pages give a detailed and very entertaining two-week, self-supported bicycle camping trip through Provence and the French Riviera.
Touring in the Baltics: Three weeks through the Baltic Region: Georg and Hans Jürgen from Germany did it and this is an excerpt of their travelling report.
Gabor Györgyi's Cycling Page: Gabor Györgyi from Hungary discovered the touring bike in 1990 and has become an avid cyclist since then. Read his enthousiastic reports from tours in Central European countries like Slovenia, Slovakia and in the Alps.

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Trip reports and bicycle touring info from the Americas

Bill and Michelle Kyle's 2004 Cross Canada Cycling Trip: If you ever plan an Ocean-to-Ocean cycling trip through Canada, this webpage is the best source of information I know of.
Minko Oh's touring reports: The bicycle touring reports of Minko Oh in the western U.S. and Canada, as well as southern Europe and Scandinavia. Also reports from other cyclists. A small but beautiful website.
Vilmar Tavares' cycling adventures: Wonderful pages with an extensive report of his across the USA - tour in 1997.
Cycling around the world: What Paul van Roekel and Anja de Graaf did on the bicycle (north, south America, India, Namibia, Australia) is certainly as impressive as their web pages about these travels. With pictures, so beautiful, you have to see them!
Madison and Dane County Bicycling Community Page: Leads you to the touring section of this comprehensive cycling website of a local Wisconsin (USA) community. I bet more Bytes about cycling than there are bikes in the world.
Ken Kifer's Bike Pages: Ken Kifer (USA) knows a lot about cycling and he shares his experiences with the world. A very nice and no-nonsense homepage takes you directly to the topic of your interest. (And thanks Ken, for quite a few bike-gif's I borrowed from you!)
Across the U S of A: Colorful report of a four month trip across the USA.
Tailwinds: This website chronicles a 98 day, 6,011 mile bicycle trip from Alaska to Florida.
Ocean to Ocean on Two Wheels: Two women traveling by themselves across the U.S. on bicycles and camping along the way.
Nobuhiro's Biking Across Canada Page: From July 14th to August 23rd, 1998, Nobuhiro Kawatani biked from Vancouver, BC to Montreal, PQ.
Across Canada on a Bicycle: Ever heard of somebody who included Victoria, the Dempster Highway, Toronto and the Trans Labrador Highway in one trip? Tom Schleicher did it! Read his amazing account.
Pedaling through Patagonia: Jim Malusa also did a coast-to-coast, but this account comes from the windswept tail of South America.
USA 1993 and USA 1995: Two travelogues in the form of picture galleries by Raph de Rooij about his biking adventures in western USA.
Cycling America Adventure of Yvonne: Yvonne van den Hork went biking and hitchhiking all over North- and Central America. Jan Boonstra followed her in cyberspace.
Impressions from bicycle travels: Paul Jeurissen and Grace Johnson succeeded to record their impressions in splendid photography in this beautiful website.

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Trip reports and touring info from Asia, Australia, New Zealand

Biking the Stuart Highway: Ten years after I did it myself, in 2004 Fernando Candido from Canada made his dream come true and crossed Australia from Darwin to the south. Read his compelling account.
Cycling around the world: What Paul van Roekel and Anja de Graaf did on the bicycle (north, south America, India, Namibia, Australia) is certainly as impressive as their web pages about these travels. With pictures, so beautiful, you have to see them!
Why not go Biking in Southeast Asia with Mr Pumpy?: Follow up this invitation of Felix Hude and see how refreshing and entertaining a bicycling website can be. Besides, it's very useful if you plan to ride in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia.
Cycling in Southeast Asia: Rich Fuller has dedicated his life to arranging biking tours in southeast Asia.
Accommodating Asia: In a masterpiece of webpage design, this site accommodates you if you're after any kind of travel information in five East Asian countries.
Cyclist Club of Hong Kong: Welcome to website of a Cyclist Club of a territory where you would not expect much cycling activity, but I happen to know the contrary.
Cycle Vietnam: Ted Ritter from Montana U.S.A. writes about his trip, a 1,200 mile bicycle ride from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City with a group of 55 other cycling tourists.
Inner Asia Expedition '95: They started May 15, 1995 in Instanbul, Turkey with 6 people. The final destination was Ulan Bataar, Mongolia. One of them, Nathan, hosts independent reports of several riders. With lots of pictures.
Cycling in the Tibetan Borderlands: Peter Bogardus, Eric Hall and Kent Pearson cycled through an area rarely visited by Westerners, the Chinese province of Qinghai.
New Zealand Trip Report: Day by day reports of 4 weeks of cycling plus general info and pictures, By Kaitlin Duck Sherwood.
Biking New Zealand: Photographs and a diary of 3 weeks cycling on the South Island.
BikeChina Adventures: Guided bicycle tours in China by Peter Snow. Read Peter's Spoke Notes - travelogues of bicycle touring through China, India and Pakistan.
Christoph Sauser Biking: Since 1995 Christoph Sauser cycled from Switserland in via the Baltic states to Asia and stayed there.
Biking through South East Asia: Mike Kiparsky sends his biking adventures from Vietnam and Laos home and Ian Clazy processes them into a beautiful webpage.
Bicycle Touring in Central Asia: Bob Egan cycled Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tashkent and gives information and reports from these trips.
The Karakoram Highway and Beyond: An on-line book with all information you can think of, for traveling the world's highest and most famous adventure highway, connecting Pakistan and China.
Cycling the Karakoram Highway: Dan Higgins did it not once, no, twice he did this great route and he has practical info about riding it.
Cycling the KKH and Tibet: This section of Trackster Man's website is set out in a refreshingly straightforward fashion. No bothering frames, no nonsense graphics, wonderful pics. Great site!
Bicycle Fish - Adelaide: Bicycle Fish values the individual cyclist's needs for simplicity, economy and authenticity. From Grace & Sue from Down Under.
Tea Tree Tourers: Tree Tree Tourers is an informal group of Adelaide based cyclists, organizing tours in Australia and abroad. The website is very informative for bicycle tourists.
Singapore Cycling: A large source of information for bicycle touring in, and especially around, Singapore.
to India on a recumbent: Suzan and Okke travel per recumbent bike from Amsterdam to the Gujarat region in India. They dedicate this journey to the victims of this year's earthquake and to try and raise as much money as possible to donate to the joint relief organizations grouped in the SHO.
Click and Travel: Click and Travel Ltd. is a fresh young Belgian-Thai family owned Thai tour company, organizing cycle tours near Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Europe to Asia by bike: Between 1998 and 2001 Tom "tallabomba" Hermansson Snickars from Sweden cycled 13600 kilometers through fourteen countries on his mountain bike.
Australia by Pushbike: Report of the same trip I did myself: Darwin - Melbourne. In German. No problem for non-Germans, because the photographs are beautiful.
homepage of Peter v.d. Lans: In 2001 Peter started in Bangkok and cycled from there to Yangshuo in China, through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.
Impressions from bicycle travels: Paul Jeurissen and Grace Johnson succeeded to record their impressions in splendid photography in this beautiful website. (India, Nepal, Indonesia)
Bali Cycling Federation: Organized cycling tours and mountain biking in Bali, Indonesia
Let's Cycle: Jeffery Chan provides information about cycling in Malaysia

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Reports from other regions and World trips

Heinz Stücke: Among the world cyclists, German Heinz Stücke is definitely the most legendary and record-keeping. He started in 1960 and has not been home ever since. It's no use summarizing his achievements; got to this site, hosted by BikeChina, where he tells it all himself. I happen to have met Heinz twice personally, both times in Hong Kong.
Raph's travel by cycle: Beautiful homepage of a Dutchman Raph de Rooij. He collected long distance touring info from all over the world.
Cycling around the world: What Paul van Roekel and Anja de Graaf did on the bicycle (north, south America, India, Namibia, Australia) is certainly as impressive as their web pages about these travels. With pictures, so beautiful, you have to see them!
Bike the World: In June 1993 Ian Burns set off from England on a solo round-the-world trip by bike. The journey covered 13,564 miles in 14 countries and took 15 months. I love this no-nonse website with short stories from several countries.
Touring on a tandem: Travelogues with many pics of Wim en Alies van der Linden, who toured in different parts of the world on their tandem.
Eric and Joan's excellent world trip: A nearly endless source of excellent travelogues. Beautiful graphics on the main page and a quick reference page for those who can't wait to start reading.
Bike Brats: 'around the world with two pairs of underwear' is the title Frederick Felman and Andrew Broan gave to their website with many pictures and very useful info from too many countries to mention here. Beautiful site!
Welcome to Jürgen's Website: This site is not in English, but in German. Yet I want this one in my collection because it has beautiful touring accounts from many places in the world.
Penny Farthing World Tour: Do you know your bike's ancestor, the one with the giant front wheel? They still exist! Jonathan (Joff) Summerfield makes them and is going to ride one around the world.
On the road to nowhere: Glenn and Sheila's Home Page contains travelogues and bike touring information from all over the world.
Around the World in 80 Clicks: The emphasis of this travel site is on pictures, with relevant travel impressions.
ThaiBikeWorld.com: Wan and Mou are a couple from Thailand and they started their great tour around the globe. Keep track of them on this beautiful webpage.
Around the world by bicycle: Janne Corax from Sweden cycled in 50 countries during the last seven years and on top of that he created a wonderful website with lots of info. For those who challenge the extremes in bicycle touring.
Welcome to Cycle Logic Press: Follow Neil and Sharon on their bicycle tours throughout Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and the US. Wonderful photography and commentary online.
Namibian Cycling Adventure: Jonathan and Dale crossed one of the most challenging countries for adventurous cyclists: Namibia.
Cycling around the world: Ben Trein made an amazing tour of 36000 kms over 3 continents, on a recumbent bike.
worldtripping: Simon and Leah are cycling around the world (start summer 2002) and prepared a very nice website for everyone who wants to keep track of them.
Bikespree: With an average age of 60, Mary and Graham are starting a world cycling tour with the aims of adventure and discovery for them and fundraising for two charities.
homepage of Philipp Schaudy: it is really fantastic what this super adventurous cyclist has undertaken so far in his life (in German).
fiets tocht: During the last 20 years Mike Vermeulen made more than 35 bike trips. These trips range in distance from 355 miles (Hawaii) to 17700 miles (US/Australia/NZ/India). Read his experiences!

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General info for the touring cyclist

Travel with Bicycles (Air/Rail/Other): Any kind of information about taking your bike on planes, trains, etc. Compiled by George Farnsworth of the USA. Also contributions from J. Boonstra.
Yahoo!: A large source of information from the Yahoo! web search site, subject Recreation:Sports:Cycling.
Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary: An encyclopedia for cyclists! Very well done, Sheldon!
Long Distance Cyclists: A list of homepages of long distance cyclists, by the German Tom Schleicher.
Cycling before Lycra: Racing and touring in the 30's and 40's. What do we know about the cycling sport in those days? Les Nelson of the U.K. kept a lot of photographs and a lot of memories about his favourite sport. His son Allan transformed these treasures into a beautiful webpage.
Pete & Ed Books: Pete & Ed Books offers a wide selection of books, maps, videos, & magazines on outdoor recreation. This page shows books and videos on Bicycling.
History of the bicycle: Information about the history of the bicycle and links to other bicycle history sites.
Bicycle Vocabulary: Select your language out of 12, select one out of 12 foreign languages and view a bicycle vocabulary!
BikeReader: A Rider's Digest from the U.K.: entertaining stories, funny and nice photographs. Frequently refreshed.
Bike Highway.com: infosite, mainly focussed on the American cyclist.
The Tandem Link: This is a non-commercial, personal Web site created for tandem owners and others interested in tandem bicycling.
Budget accomodation for cyclists: Roger Gravel from Quebec has listed sources of cheap accomodation info, especially for cyclists.
biketour reviews: Information about and comparison between companies organising biketours. For the North American cyclist.
velo.info: A new website (2005) for sharing Cycling Expertise in Europe.
Vélo Mondial: This organisation builds on the existing enthusiasm in the world for solutions to global issues with respect to bicycling that can readily be achieved locally.
Bike Circle: Anything to tell are ask about cycling matters? Join this Bike Forum

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Latest update: May 5, 2006.

Index toJan Boonstra's cycling pages

Trip reports and bicycle touring info from Europe

Trip reports and bicycle touring info from the Americas

Trip reports and touring info from Asia, Australia, New Zealand

Reports from other regions and World trips

Other cycling links pages

General info for the touring cyclist

Index to
Jan Boonstra's cycling pages