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Willie Weir
Willie Weir shares a birthday with Louis Armstrong, but rarely toots his own horn. He's the author of multiple books on bicycle travel and has been a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine for 20 years.
This article originally appeared in a 1998 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  In 1963, Dervla Murphy hopped on her bike in Ireland and pedaled all the way to India … ...
Jun 30th, 2022
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This article first appeared in the March 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. In 1996, I sat in the middle of my tent in a nondescript field outside of Banja Luka, Bosnia, ...
Apr 20th, 2022
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This article first appeared in the June 2016 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. It was the end of the very first day of our bike journey across the U. S., and all ...
Feb 14th, 2022
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This article first appeared in the Dec. 2016/Jan. 2017 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. We pedaled up the gradual grade of a crushed gravel trail on a late mid-May morning. It had ...
Feb 14th, 2022
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This article first appeared in the March 2018 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  Four cyclists and a dog lounged in plastic lawn chairs on the banks of Curlew Lake, sipping leftover booze ...
Feb 14th, 2022
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Sixteen flats! I hope that’s a record I never break. It was my first cross-country bike trip, and twice in eastern Oregon I had emerged from my tent in the ...
Dec 21st, 2020
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If I asked you to list the Seven Wonders of the World, would you be able to do it? You might first ask, “Which Seven Wonders?” There are many lists: ...
Sep 28th, 2018
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When was the golden age of cycle touring? The penny farthing era? The summer of ’76 with the birth of the Adventure Cycling Association (then Bikecentennial)? The advent of mountain ...
Sep 12th, 2018
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