Well if you are car camping, you have so much more latitude in terms of gear. You don’t have to eat dehydrated food. You don’t need to worry about weight. So for the average mortal it’s way more practical. Here are some things to get to prepare in order of comfort: Sleeping pad. You want […]

Again from Brad a good list of touring companies that do higher-end bike tours with decent bikes too: Butterfield & Robinson. Highly recommended by Brad. Backroads. This seems to be the most common group, seem to have many friends who have taken them with great results. They have decent spec bicycles too with Di2 shifting. […]

He’s a super smart guy in all things, but the bike advice is terrific, from Bsilverberg.com, he gives a couple of great tips: The Garmin 1030 is great for navigation. You download to it from Ride With GPS. Also get the XERT application so you can constantly see your FTP (functional threshold power) which tells […]

Last things first. Wow finally subscribed to Strava for $60 a year. Nice to see the power analysis but they bury the fact they give you a CTS training regime. Buried on the website you can subscribe and you get a daily email on what to do.Requires you to do a CTS Field Test. Basically […]