Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
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I just got off the Adventure Cycling site and something has changed, and it's not for the good. Evidently, ACA will no longer do the unsupported Southern, Northern or Central paved tier route they will only do Van supported Southern tier if you want a cross country paved tour, which means the price is $10,000, which means if you go off by yourself you could save over $5,000.
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I was unaware of that. I recently looked at their website, as I was going to suggest someone consider doing a different ACA self-supported (guided but no vehicle) trip that I had done over a decade ago and I noticed that trip was now done with van support instead of self-support too.
I wonder if this is a trend? Last April, I was touring with a friend with camping gear and a van supported ACA group was doing a very similar route as we were. I do not know if ACA had ever done that route as self-supported or not, so maybe that one was always done as van support?
Some of the bike manufacturers have dropped their dedicated touring bike models too. My most recent touring bike build was a Lynskey Backroad that I built up in 2017, that model has disappeared from their website. So, it might be part of a bigger trend that we just are not noticing.