The Cycle Touring Life blends hands-on touring advice with the deeper philosophy of the road, helping you ride farther, steadier, and more intentionally.
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The Gear You'll Throw Away
Stuff you don’t need and won’t miss.
There is a post office in the middle of Quebec where I once paid more to ship a folding camp chair back to Nova Scotia than the chair had cost me new.
The clerk asked what was in the box. I wasn’t in t...
Your Cheap Bike Is Better Than Their Expensive One. Here’s the Math.
Four grapes slower. Six weeks longer.
I’ve stood in a bike shop in Halifax and lifted a carbon gravel frame off its hook with two fingers, and I’m not going to pretend it didn’t do something to me. It weighed about what a bottle of wine we...
Somebody Answered. 30,000km Later, It Was Us.
A photo of two loaded bikes reached thousands of people. One driveway answered. On algorithms, hospitality, and what still can't be automated in bike touring.
Mark and Ellie rode up our driveway last week with thirty thousand kilometres be...
You Can't Fix a Bicycle From a Position of Dignity
The nightly bike check, the roadside repair, and why caring for the machine that carries you is the closest thing a touring cyclist has to prayer.
Nobody photographs the end of a touring day. The tent is up, and supper is finished. The lig...
Becoming No One
Nobody on a bike tour asks what you do for a living. What happens to your identity when your name, your work, and your history stay home? Notes from a loaded Maritimes ride.
Somewhere on Route 7 east of Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia, there’s...
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Cidermaker, distance cyclist, and writer based in Nova Scotia. Field notes from the road, the cellar, and the in-between. Subscribe for weekly essays that slows your scroll.
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