|
|
|
Bicycle Touring
The Complete Book on Touring by Bike
by Patricia Vance
|
|
|
| Format: |
6 x 9 inch
trade paperback |
|
Description: |
224 pages
with 60 black & white
photographs and other
illustrations |
| ISBN: |
1-892495-27-9 |
| Price: |
US$18.95 |
|
Click
here to order from
Amazon.com
- Planning your tour
from the start
- Selecting your
companions, your route,
and your equipment
- Clothing for touring
on and off the bike
- How to pack
effectively for every kind
of tour
- Bike wrangling:
handling the bike on and
off the road
- Care and feeding of
the touring cyclist
|
|
|
An excellent, well-organized and
well-presented guide for anyone
contemplating a bicycle touring
vacation. |
About the book
Bicycle touring is making a
comeback, and although many of
today’s touring cyclist travel with
organized groups, the real adventure
starts when you find your own way,
at home or abroad. In this
comprehensive book, Patricia Vance
shares the lessons learned in her
many years of experience as a
touring cyclist.
Shows how to select a destination,
how to plan and schedule the tour
and the daily stages, how to find
your way out in teh terrain, and how
to deal with the many big and little
problems that may crop up. Reading
this book will help you gain 10
years’ of touring experience before
you even start out.
About the author
Patricia Vance is a molecular
biology lab researcher at the
University of Pennsylvania. She ws
born in Wisconsin and grew up in
suburban Minneapolis. She got her MS
degree at Rutgers University in New
Jersey, where she met her husband.
She has toured by bicycle
extensively, both alone and with her
husband and in small groups. Other
forms of travel interest her too:
including a 1½-year sailing trip to
Venezuela and back in 1987 and 1988.
Her bicycle touring experiences
include tours of Nova Scotia,
Iceland, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and
many regions in the United States.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Route Planning
What kind of tour do you want
Your touring companions
Choosing a guidebook
Selecting a route
Teaching by example
Part II. Packing Your Bike Your touring bike
Roadside repairs
Clothing
Packs, camping gear, etc.
Michael and Pat’s lists
Part III. During the Tour Cycling skills and rules of
the road
Transporting you and your
bicycle
The care and feeding of the
touring cyclist
The responsible traveler
Appendix
Bibliography
Index |
|
|
|
From the contents |
Enjoying the view at Volterra, Italy
|
Camping out in an
olive grove
|
|
