Helpful Websites

Bicycle Toruing 101
This website will help get you started touring.

Biking Southeast Asia with Mr Pumpy
This site contains routes and maps for the Southeast Asia. Everyone who bikes in Asia knows this site.

Ciclismo Classico
Specialist in Italian active vacations and we borrowed their route through Le Marche, Umbria and Tuscany and loved it. There is a very good reason Itlay is #5 on our list.

www.adventurecycling.org/
Official site of Adventure Cycling Association, this is America’s premier organization dedicated to bicycle travel. You will find route maps for crossing the US.

www.backroads.com
Upscale bike tours with a hip clientele. They use Cannondale bikes.

www.bicycletour.com
Directory of profit and non-profit bicycle tours and events. Ability to search for a tour by region, date and tour type.

www.bicycling.about.com
Online magazine with articles about cycling and links to hundreds of other sites.

www.biketour-reviews.com
This excellent site reviews different bicycle touring companies and compares costs.

www.butterfield.com
The ultimate upscale bike tours. They have developed their own bikes for added comfort.

www.ctc.org.uk/
The British Cycling Touring Club. Information, routes and maps for the world. You have to join to get the information from the web. If you bike the world independently it is well worth the investment.

www.footprintbooks.com
We like these guidebooks because they have great recommendations on small hotels.

www.lonelyplanet.com
World wide up to date information. They have a cycling book for Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

www.mikebentley.com
Just about every bike link know to man or computer.

www.moon.com
Excellent guide books especially Chile, Guatemala and Argentina. Look for guides written by Wayne Bernhardson he knows South America.

www.pedaling.com
There are over 1,000 routes (with cue sheets and maps) throughout the US and Canada.

www.travel.state.gov
Visa and health information around the world for Americans.

www.trektravel.com
New to the bicycle touring companies. They offer new Trek bikes on their tours and copy Backroads and Butterfield.

www.veloasia.com
Information on cycling in Vietnam and Asia.

www.frixo.com
Frixo (http://www.frixo.com/) is a road travel reporting website, that provides our users with the most up-to-date road traffic information. Currently supports UK and Ireland.

People we have met traveling who have websites:

Jean Beliveau’s site
Jean Beliveau’s site, he is walking around the world for twelve years. He started August 18, 2000. We met him in Uruguay March 2003.

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