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Cycle Touring Vancouver Island

This section is my chance to ramble on, to have an ongoing conversation with readers. I'll post updates & photos as I do more rides, get gear worth noting, or come across interesting stuff about cycle touring or bikepacking on Vancouver Island & the Sunshine Coast (and beyond).   

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See the 'search tags', listed in alpha order down the right side below. Check this list out if you want to find out if there is a post about a location - click on a tag of interest, and any relevant blog post(s) will show along the left.

Malcolm Island - northern whimsy

Check out Malcolm Island & Bere Point Regional Campground on beautiful Malcolm Island of Vancouver Island's NE coast. Beautiful beac

Immigration & bike touring

A few years past, after hearing about how fabulous it was from cycle tourists in central Asia, I did a 6 week bike tour through west and cen

New trends in bikeland

3 articles about trends in the biking world - on local bike shops, hidden motors and an ageless wonder, still riding at 105 years.

To Rohloff or not to Rohloff?

This post talks about why I really considered getting a rohloff hub for my newly ordered Surly ECR 29 x 3+" bikepacking bike

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This website does not encourage anyone to undertake activities in the backwoods without considering fully issues of safety, access and readiness. There are no guarantees with any information provided in this website.  Please read  the FAQs, research further as appropriate, and use your judgement at all times.