X-LinkedRider

How many of you are starting to plan your tours for next year already? I will not be doing any large scale touring (over a week or 2) but I do plan on getting out there a couple of different times, to different spots.
Here is my bike as it sits, I have front rack, all panniers, and many more lights and such when am out there, but I can tell next season will be a good one!

nun

Rt1 Iceland anticlockwise, I was going to do it this year but the volcano put pay to that.

raybo

My current plans are for 2 tours.

In May, 3-4 weeks touring in England.

In August, from Prince Rupert, BC to Jasper and then down to an Airport, either Calgary or somewhere in Montana.

Ray

KDC1956

Going on a trip to Bangor Maine from Little Rock,Ar start date is May 1 2011 it's going to be a very long trip but hope to make it all the way without to many problems.Will be camping most of the time and cooking my own meals.My ride is the Surly LHT 52cm

antokelly

emm could be heading to wales or maybe france for seminar federal cycling week .
or i might just stay here and see a bit of my own country Ireland.

paul2432

I have a few things planned. All are tentative.

1) Overnight trip to Rocky Mountain National Park during the winter.

2) Overnight trip somewhere nearby with my 2.5 year old daughter.

3) 5-6 day trip through Colorado Moutains. (probably from the Sand Dunes north through Walden and then home over Cameron pass)

Paul

robow

A couple of friends have wanted to do the Katy Trail again along with another leg thru St. Louis and up the Great River Trail, if there are any forum members that would want to join in, just let us know and hopefully we can put together a nice group.

scozim 

I'm just starting out on this touring adventure and for now am planning several overnight trips with my three older kids. The 11 yr old is real anxious to go out - he loves camping and the idea of doing it by bike seems to really appeal to him. I may be a year or two away from a 1-2 week tour thanks to kids sports activities almost year round.

cyclist2000

Just started planning summer tour around my and my friend's work schedule. UP or Wis are looking good

Rusty5329

Trying to get in a ride up the C&O Canal, all 184 miles of it, in the early Spring. Then planning a much longer trip from DC to Asheville, NC along the Blue Ridge Parkway for August.

I've ridden on the Canal a lot, but only one overnighter and it was only one night. A buddy from high school and I are planning to find time in the Spring to ride that and another buddy from high school is planning to join me for Blue Ridge. Pretty excited about both, one of the only things keeping me on the indoor trainer.

valygrl

Thinking about Sierra Cascades, or a loop tour in New England in leaf season, or a big loop around Utah, or a month in France/Italy.... OK, that's not really planning, it's more like a wish list. I dunno yet.

aenlaasu

The past 2 years have ended up seriously jinxed touring wise thanks to health problems. So the plan is to just GET OUT for a few tours. Starting with a couple of weekenders close to home and then moving on to a week long as I pedal around on the Sverigeleden and anything along the way that catches my interest. I'll be doing a LOT of zig-zagging.

Hopefully, maybe sometime in August I'll try part of the North Sea route, perhaps starting around Bruge and heading back toward Sweden.

skilsaw

I'm thinking of riding Vancouver Island, Canada, end to end. It is 568 kms one way and I'll ride there and back. 40 years ago the main valleys were clear cut and you could see the mountains. Now the road is a tunnel through second growth forest.

azesty

I will catch a bus from Chengdu to Kanding (2500m) with my bike and ride up to the Tagong Grasslands pass (4500m) and along the Tagong Grasslands (4000m) and then down a valley back to the Chengdu - Kanding road (1700m). There are lots of nomads on the Tagong Grasslands in summer, and it should be fairly nice.

z

chasm54

My major project is a two-month loop starting and ending in Toronto (I have friends to visit there) and going through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, upstate New York and back to Toronto via Niagara. Between 2500 and 3000 miles, that should fill up May and June. In addition I'm likely to take the ferry to Amsterdam a little later in the year and spend a week or two in the low countries and Northern France.

raybo, what sort of route are you thinking about in England? Want any suggestions?

nancy sv

We'll be riding through Patagonia to Ushuaia - should get there around March or so. After that, we'll head back to the USA and decide what we want to do next. there could very well be other tours in the year, but we have no idea beyond Ushuaia.

staehpj1

I am tossing around the following:

1. The part of the Sierra Cascades that I haven't done yet, possibly continuing south and riding the whole thing if the weather isn't too hot to do the southern portion again.
2. A route I have been working on that follows the Oregon Trail.
3. The Pacific Coast.
4. Some route or another that would let me see Glacier NP.

I might possibly do more than one from the list this coming year. I will have about 10 weeks of leave available and if things continue like the recent trend has been at work I might even retire.

rgtft

After last year's Michigan to Maine 3-week tour, I don't think I'll be able to take a long trip. I'm thinking of doing a week long trip from mid-Michigan to Milwaukee crossing Lake Michigan on the ferry at Ludington, MI to Mantiwoc, WI.

BigAura

Seattle, WA to Deadhorse, AK - May to August 2011

Here's my tentative route.

ezdoesit

If all goes well in April I'll do my first tour through my state of New Jersey from High Point to Cap May the whole state 234 miles then if everything falls into place I am going with KDC1956 up to Maine if he still wants a partner (LOL)

Carbonfiberboy 

Now planning a 2 week tandem tour in the Czech Republic for September 2011. We hope to have a couple other tandem teams coming with us for their first tours. We'll start in Prague and visit Rimbach uber Cham in Germany, where I once used the Czech the Army taught me. If anyone knows the best way to get from Furth in Wald back to Prague, let me know. It's not done much by bike.

Erick L

My plan so far is to follow the water from Windsor Ontario to home in Montreal.

MichaelW

Last year I got to Bergen in Norway. Everybody says the "real" Norway starts North of [insert someplace North of where you are].
I might fly into Haugesund and take a ferry North then tour the Lofoten islands

indyfabz

Did a loop from Whitefish last year. Eureka, Sparwood, B.C., Pincher Creek, AB, Waterton Village, St. Mary and then around the boundary of the park to the west side. Logan Pass was closed when we got to St. Mary so we had to go around via U.S. 89, Looking Glass Hill and Marias Pass (U.S. 2), but we did get to ride up to Logan via the west side of GTS. On P.R. 3 east of Crows Nest Pass there was a little more traffic than I like, but still a nice ride.

indyfabz

Planned this for this past summer but didn't make it. Hoping to do it next year:

Missoula
Darby
Wisdom
Wyse River via the Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway
Butte (rest day)
Philipsburg
Hamilton via the unpaved Skalkaho Highway
Missoula