Comments on: Preparing for A Cycle Tour http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/2749/cycling/preparing-for-a-cycle-tour/ Cycling info - advice and tips Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Chris Clarke http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/2749/cycling/preparing-for-a-cycle-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-47195 Tue, 24 May 2011 07:39:24 +0000 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/?p=2749#comment-47195 I suggestion I would make is to undertake a 2 or 3 night uk stop before you go. Use this to test any new kit and make the judgement call “Do I need this/that?”

]]> By: Doug http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/2749/cycling/preparing-for-a-cycle-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-47172 Mon, 23 May 2011 19:14:18 +0000 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/?p=2749#comment-47172 All good advice here. Reminds me of my hopeless optimism as I set out on a tour of East Africa on a heap of junk and on a real shoe string – but it still remains one of the best things I have ever done. Looking back I was not too well prepared but just about scraped by.
Here’s a brief summary of my wanderlust in 1984:
http://ramblingsofdoug.blogspot.com/2011/02/cycling-in-east-africa-1984.html

Doug.

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