Who are the world's most memorable bike tourers?
09-21-09, 12:07 PM
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Who are the world's most memorable bike tourers?
I want to write a book on this. No, really....
So if you were going to write a complete history of bicycle touring and notable bike tourists, who would you put in it?
Heinz Stucke
Frank Van Rijn
Dervla Murphy
Ian Hibell
Anne Mustoe
Josie Dew
And...?
So if you were going to write a complete history of bicycle touring and notable bike tourists, who would you put in it?
Heinz Stucke
Frank Van Rijn
Dervla Murphy
Ian Hibell
Anne Mustoe
Josie Dew
And...?
09-21-09, 12:18 PM
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Add Barbara Savage; Bettina Selby; Bernard Magnouloux; John Rakowski;Lloyd Sumner.
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No one. Particularly if you drop authors who aren't notable for what they did... well OK writing.
Still on writers I think there is Tomas Stevens, and basically everyone else was writing for their mother.
Still on writers I think there is Tomas Stevens, and basically everyone else was writing for their mother.
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Ken Kifer ?
www.kenkifer.com
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09-21-09, 01:53 PM
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Willie Weir
Author of Spokesongs, he was featured in a podcast about bike touring with Rick Steves.
Author of Spokesongs, he was featured in a podcast about bike touring with Rick Steves.
09-21-09, 02:46 PM
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Fred Birchmore? I can't believe no one mentioned Fred!
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09-21-09, 04:58 PM
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I don't think of touring as something that the participants would be compared by how "notable" they are. I have never heard of most of the folks listed so far. I guess that may be because while I like reading and like touring, I am not too inclined to read books about touring.
Anyone care to educate me on why I would have heard of these folks?
Heinz Stucke - Heard the name, but really don't know anything much about him.
Frank Van Rijn - I have no idea.
Dervla Murphy - Again no idea.
Ian Hibell - Again I've heard the name, but that is about it.
Anne Musto - No idea.
Josie Dew - No Idea.
Barbara Savage - Author of Miles From Nowhere, right?
Bettina Selby - No idea
Bernard Magnouloux - No idea.
John Rakowski - No idea.
Lloyd Sumner - No idea.
Fred Birchmore - No Idea.
Reg Pither - No idea.
Ken Kifer - I am familiar with him because of his website.
Willie Weir - Another one I have heard of but really know nothing about.
Dennis Coello - No idea.
Colin Angus - The name is vaguely familiar.
Anyone care to educate me on why I would have heard of these folks?
Heinz Stucke - Heard the name, but really don't know anything much about him.
Frank Van Rijn - I have no idea.
Dervla Murphy - Again no idea.
Ian Hibell - Again I've heard the name, but that is about it.
Anne Musto - No idea.
Josie Dew - No Idea.
Barbara Savage - Author of Miles From Nowhere, right?
Bettina Selby - No idea
Bernard Magnouloux - No idea.
John Rakowski - No idea.
Lloyd Sumner - No idea.
Fred Birchmore - No Idea.
Reg Pither - No idea.
Ken Kifer - I am familiar with him because of his website.
Willie Weir - Another one I have heard of but really know nothing about.
Dennis Coello - No idea.
Colin Angus - The name is vaguely familiar.
09-21-09, 06:52 PM
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Heinz Stucke - worth reading:
https://www.bikechina.com/heinzstucke1z.html
Ken Kifer is more famous for his lifestyle/philosophy I think, than his actual tours. That and getting killed by a drunk as he was heading in to town a few days after finishing his last tour. I don't think his journal of this tour ever got finished/posted to website.
https://www.bikechina.com/heinzstucke1z.html
Ken Kifer is more famous for his lifestyle/philosophy I think, than his actual tours. That and getting killed by a drunk as he was heading in to town a few days after finishing his last tour. I don't think his journal of this tour ever got finished/posted to website.
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Fred Birchmore? I can't believe no one mentioned Fred!
Amazon.com: Around the World on a Bicycle (9781887813129): Fred A. Birchmore: Books
Amazon.com: Around the World on a Bicycle (9781887813129): Fred A. Birchmore: Books
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Thomas Stevens, first around the world on a penny farthing in 1884.
https://www.amazon.com/Around-World-B.../dp/0811726533
https://www.amazon.com/Around-World-B.../dp/0811726533
09-21-09, 10:53 PM
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Fred Birchmore? I can't believe no one mentioned Fred!
Amazon.com: Around the World on a Bicycle (9781887813129): Fred A. Birchmore: Books
Amazon.com: Around the World on a Bicycle (9781887813129): Fred A. Birchmore: Books
09-22-09, 12:00 AM
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I don't think of touring as something that the participants would be compared by how "notable" they are. I have never heard of most of the folks listed so far. I guess that may be because while I like reading and like touring, I am not too inclined to read books about touring.
Anyone care to educate me on why I would have heard of these folks?
Heinz Stucke - Heard the name, but really don't know anything much about him.
Frank Van Rijn - I have no idea.
Dervla Murphy - Again no idea.
Ian Hibell - Again I've heard the name, but that is about it.
Anne Musto - No idea.
Josie Dew - No Idea.
Barbara Savage - Author of Miles From Nowhere, right?
Bettina Selby - No idea
Bernard Magnouloux - No idea.
John Rakowski - No idea.
Lloyd Sumner - No idea.
Fred Birchmore - No Idea.
Reg Pither - No idea.
Ken Kifer - I am familiar with him because of his website.
Willie Weir - Another one I have heard of but really know nothing about.
Dennis Coello - No idea.
Colin Angus - The name is vaguely familiar.
Anyone care to educate me on why I would have heard of these folks?
Heinz Stucke - Heard the name, but really don't know anything much about him.
Frank Van Rijn - I have no idea.
Dervla Murphy - Again no idea.
Ian Hibell - Again I've heard the name, but that is about it.
Anne Musto - No idea.
Josie Dew - No Idea.
Barbara Savage - Author of Miles From Nowhere, right?
Bettina Selby - No idea
Bernard Magnouloux - No idea.
John Rakowski - No idea.
Lloyd Sumner - No idea.
Fred Birchmore - No Idea.
Reg Pither - No idea.
Ken Kifer - I am familiar with him because of his website.
Willie Weir - Another one I have heard of but really know nothing about.
Dennis Coello - No idea.
Colin Angus - The name is vaguely familiar.
Barbara Savage toured around the world with her husband and died on a local road when hit by a garbage truck here in Santa Barbara as her book went to press. She was a beautiful, athletic and intelligent young woman who I had the pleasure of knowing here in Santa Barbara.
Bettina Selby is an intrepid English cycle tourist who traveled to Pakistan alone to ride to Nepal and Kathmandu. Her book Riding The Mountains Down describes that trip. A second book tells of her trip to Jerusalem from England following various pilgrim routes.
Lloyd Sumner in 1971 took off to ride around the world by himself. The story called The Long Ride describes that trip. A funny resourceful curious traveler.
Ian Hibell another early 1970's round the world cyclist whose story was regularly published in installments in newspapers around the world. He continued to tour these last almost forty years but was tragically killed by a drunk driver while on tour earlier this year i believe. I heard him give a lecture and slide show about his travels. A live wire funny and relentless tourer.
Bernard Magnouloux toured around the world for five years in the mid 1980's. His very detailed route he wrote up in Travels with Rosinante in 1988.
John Rakowski after extensive touring wrote in 1981 a guide to all of Europe including Easter Bloc/Soviet countries. His book Adventure Cycling in Europe was an early standard for guide books back then.
Dennis Coello was/is an early advocate of off pavement self contained mountain bike camping in the early days of mountain biking. He had regular bike magazine and newspaper columns promoting cycle touring.
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“Most memorable touring authors”
Surely Tim Harvey, Alastair Humphries and Janne Corax are worth a mention.
Surely Tim Harvey, Alastair Humphries and Janne Corax are worth a mention.
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