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Category Archives: Constructive Ranting
Cycle Touring Panel at the RGS Explore Seminar this weekend
On Saturday 13th (this weekend) between 15.30 – 17.30, I will be sitting in on the Bicycle Expeditions Logistics workshop at RGS Explore Expedition Planning Seminar this weekend. Other delegates on the Cycle Touring Panel: Tom Allen – Ride Earth Harold Evans – Cycling the Americas Hallum Murray (Chair) – Lecturer, writer and photographer Astrid [...]
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Royal Geographical Society Explore 2010 – Expedition Planning Seminar
The annual expedition & fieldwork planning weekend is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR on Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12 – 14 November 2010. Lectures, workshops, and exhibits cover the planning and undertaking of research projects and expeditions in a variety of environments and disciplines. Over 100 leading field [...]
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Can I help you?
Recently I have met up with people who have called upon me for advice about bike touring, travel advice -and whatever else they get from me as an added bonus ;) . I have had some positive feedback from these meetings and I have also got a lot out of them myself. I would like [...]
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Possible future adventures
I am always brewing new ideas for adventures even though recently I have become city-bound in London. I know that if I don’t capture these ideas and plan for the future they won’t come to bear, because I will have to set a date for them to happen in the future. Since I have done [...]
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Twitter, Baby Boomers, Safety Nets and Recent Tweets of note
Over the last year and a half I’ve been getting to grips with Twitter. I am interested in the technology but I find myself looking at it from the perspective of ‘how do I intuitively use it?’ and ‘how can it be of more use to me?’. I post things to Twitter that I find [...]
Looking for objective readers for my book (email andy@ride-earth.org.uk)
As some readers may know I have been working on a book about a cycle journey from England to Georgia (the first part of Ride Earth). Now it’s in it’s third draft iteration and at a stage where I am looking for people that I don’t know to read it, e.g. an objective viewpoint.
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Travelling by bus in Europe
I did the overland journey Georgia – England, there and back, two and a half times; about 15000km in total. Overland travel in Europe has it’s ups and downs but is generally efficient and reliable. The trains in Eastern Europe are generally well priced and run on time but some of the the older routes, [...]
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How to Lace up a (misshapen) Brooks (Champion Flyer) Saddle
I have a Brooks Champion Flyer saddle. Before beginning the ride I bought it because it had the reputation of being the most comfortable saddle for long-distance touring. After the initial break in period of about three months the saddle moulds to ones’ posterior. The saddle is very comfortable indeed. However, early on in the [...]
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Minimal approach to ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD) called ZTD (adapted from Zen Habits) – Expedition and Project Planning
In order to organise your thoughts and your time, perhaps whilst preparing for a cycle expedition or for any project you want to achieve, try the super-minimal ZTD approach (adapted from Zen Habits). Trust me, the following will profoundly affect your life:
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Bicycle touring equipment kit list
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. The idea is to design your bicycle touring equipment kit list so well that you don’t even need to think about it when you go on your cycle trip. To begin with you will have to get [...]
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Ideas, Limited time, and Making a plan
When I go on a cycle tour I feel that I am opened up to a huge amount of possibilities and have the perceived freedom to go and do whatever I like which is an inspiring way to think. Perhaps it’s the flood of endorphins from riding a bike all day, the numerous daily meetings [...]
Britain in Tandem, length, height and width of the UK – the Video
Congratulations to the Britain in Tandem team for completing their length, height and width of the UK for http://www.enaikishomi.org/. Read more on the site here: http://www.britainintandem.com.
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How to Cook Georgian Khinkali – list of recipes.
One of my favourite foods of all time is Georgian Khinkali. Here are some links to recipes:-
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First five chapters of my book posted for reading on Autonomy