Adventure Cycling Association

The Breakdown Start training at least 12 weeks before departure with this four-stage plan. Stage 1 base training working toward two-hour rides. Stage 2 adds speed intervals, hills, and light ...

It’s the morning of New Year’s Eve, and the exact moment I step out of my tent, I spot a dorsal fin. It rises briefly into the mist from the placid Brickhill ...

Riding a fat bike on the snow is anything but quiet and stealthy. The crunch of snow crystals beneath the tires is loud, constant, and certainly disrupts the stillness of ...

Sometimes I wish I’d been born a century earlier. What a tremendous time it must have been for exploration — the infrastructure existed to travel to different parts of the world, ...

The Breakdown Budget touring strategies include: traveling with a friend to split costs, using the Warmshowers app to find free stays, and swapping paid campsites for free sites. Being approachable ...

The conversation that bubbled as we coasted back from beers and dessert hushed as the bike path veered out of the moonlight and into the darkness under the trees. Heidi ...

There is cleaning to be done. The bags have to be emptied out and packed anew, breaking set habits; calls need to be made and arrangements confirmed. Trash will be ...

On Day Four of my bicycle adventure, near the summit of a 6,000-foot climb in Mexico, I saw my first migrating monarch. She chased pockets of evening sun as clouds ...

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: ...

I read that the Annapurna Circuit’s newly-built road “ruined” the classic trek. I read that the circuit’s “integrity” was destroyed. That it “wasn’t what it used to be.” That it ...