Originally Posted by mdilthey (Post 18739881)

Back on subject:



http://i.imgur.com/EfQdu7O.jpg

Originally Posted by robow (Post 18741557)

I enjoy all the pics but the ones like Doug and others have posted where there are actually cycling tourists or at least bikes visible are what I enjoy. Again, simple beautiful scenic photos abound on the internet (which ain't a bad thing).

Arkansas March 2016, A fully completed bridge but still not in use after almost a year because of government red tape at its finest

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...IMG_2238ab.jpg

Originally Posted by jonc123 (Post 18741971)

Where is this bridge at?

Originally Posted by robow (Post 18742048)

It crosses over the White river into Clarendon, AR. What a friendly small community. The mayor of the village met up with us the next morning at the local diner and unbeknownst to us, paid for all our breakfasts before he slipped out. And also, he had his chief of police (maybe the only policeman) provide for us a protected escort when we crossed back over the White River on the very narrow and dangerous old bridge that this newer one is set to replace.

Originally Posted by Grace Johnson (Post 18739680)

First of all, a plug for the non-commercial bicycle touring magazine that I publish online. The latest edition of Bicycle Traveler is full of great cycle touring images from photographers around the world. You can download it for free at: www.bicycletraveler.nl

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=519695





Also wanted to say - kudos to Neil Gunton and his Crazy Guy on a bikewebsite!

My husband and I met a lot of long distance touring cyclists during our multi-year bike tour and the most referred to resource by far was: Crazy guy on a bike. (Andes by bike and Travelling Two were a very distant second and third.)

The reasons:

Just before they enter a new country, cyclists want to research good, traffic free routes, information on money, etc. So instead of spending hours trying to google wordpress bicycle touring blogs (very time-consuming since google ranks commercial bicycle tour companies ahead of individual cycle travellers). So instead they head to crazy guy on a bike since the site lists scores of cycling journals on almost every country in the world.

The way the journals are set up on CGOAB encourages the cyclists to write down factual information such as distance cycled per day, where they slept, etc. These are important facts if you want to know road conditions (kms cycled per day will give an indication of road conditions, hills, etc.) plus other important info. Many cycling blogs (including our own) don’t include this type of information and are just full of pretty pictures and / or short atmospheric yet uninformative articles.

The Crazy guy on a bike hosts Bill Weir’s very informative Asia journals. Bill has cycled almost everywhere in Asia and numerous cyclists were “pedalling in the footsteps of Bill”.

The majority of multi-year bike trip blogs disappear from the web a couple of years after the cyclist has finished their tour. This could be due to the site being hacked, the cyclist not wanting to pay for website hosting, the cyclist has “moved on” in his life and no longer wishes to maintain the website, etc. This is a pity since a lot of good information is being lost. Neil maintains the CGOAB site so that no cycling journals, even ones from years ago, are lost.

Originally Posted by Grace Johnson (Post 18740310)

One of the reasons why people are leaving the Flickr community is because a lot of Flickr users are doing “photo dumps” – uploading all of the pictures from their camera card at once without editing the images beforehand. Then with all of their pictures from the “photo dump” (even non bicycle touring images) they then dump them into the Flickr bicycle touring group...

Originally Posted by robow (Post 18742048)

It crosses over the White river into Clarendon, AR. What a friendly small community. The mayor of the village met up with us the next morning at the local diner and unbeknownst to us, paid for all our breakfasts before he slipped out. And also, he had his chief of police (maybe the only policeman) provide for us a protected escort when we crossed back over the White River on the very narrow and dangerous old bridge that this newer one is set to replace.

Originally Posted by str (Post 18742656)

Pyrenees

Originally Posted by BigAura (Post 18743122)

Nice! Love the B&W!

Originally Posted by RedandBlack (Post 18743683)

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My first two days of my first tour. From snowy mountains to the desert.

Originally Posted by RedandBlack (Post 18743683)

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My first two days of my first tour. From snowy mountains to the desert.