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The Cycle Touring Life

Dominic Rivard

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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How I Tricked My Wife Into Bike Touring

A once reluctant bike tourist, now a convert.

My wife had a list. She had it written down somewhere, possibly on the back of a grocery store receipt, and she was prepared to defend it in court. She wasn’t fit enough. She didn’t own a touri...

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The Weight You Can't Weigh

Loaded bike, gray sky, head still at the kitchen table.

I left Canning last June with two panniers, a frame bag, a partially resolved argument with my wife Clare, and an email from my accountant I had been refusing to open for nine days. T...

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The Tour You Don’t Post: A Case for the Private Adventure

No need to add this to Instagram…

The third day in, somewhere east of Parrsboro on a road I’d ridden twice before, I noticed a barn I’d never seen.

It had been there both other times: same field, same lean, same rusted-out tractor in the...

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The Big Trip Delusion

Find a spot 10km from your kitchen, and go.

I know a guy. You know him too. He’s been telling me about the Tour Divide since 2017. Not the route. The attempt. The year he finally does it. The year the kids are old enough, the year the ren...

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I Almost Quit at Mile 65. Here's What My Brain Said.

Touring cyclist’s remote roadside oasis.

Everyone writes about the mental side of long-distance riding in pastel colours. Stay positive. Break the day into chunks. Chew your feelings. Nobody transcribes what the head actually sounds like a...

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