Welcome

This website highlights some of the wonderful places I have travelled to, through, across and around by bicycle.

There's a new look for 2009, with lots of new information. I'm hoping the off the map section, which I am writing at present, will be of particular use to those following in my tyre tracks. You might as well learn from someone else's mistakes after all!

Photos are now hosted by Google, which has the advantage of allowing them to be viewed on a map or satellite image. The geotagging is definitely more accurate for the more recent tours - my memory is only so good.

Tours

I first went on a bicycle tour at the age of thirteen, cycling in the Outer Hebrides with my parents. It rained a lot. After quite a break, I had the opportunity to get back in the saddle when Fraser proposed a trip to Southern Peru.

Since then I've toured throughout the Americas and Europe, taking off-the-beaten track routes by mountain bike where possible. It was during my extended trip in South America that I decided to write this website. It's now on version 2 and I have several more tours in Britain, the Alps and La Reunion to share.

People

Angus: I'm working as a doctor in London and wondering when I'll have time to go away again. Re-living old memories instead.

Malin: my wife, plant biologist at Kew Gardens, rode with me on most of the recent trips.

Fraser: investment banker in London, getting progressively less fit and trying to make up for it by buying nicer and nicer bikes. Andrew and I had to carry his gear in 2003 on the Divide. Nowadays we'd have to carry him.

Andrew: my companion in South America and on the Divide. Seems to be maintaining fitness despite working in New York City and recently rode on his own from Syria to Italy.

Jesse: American, teaching in Oxford. Has only mountain biked twice - at the SSMM 24 hour race where it poured with rain. Unsurprisingly, prefers the road.

 

Tyretracks: adventure bicycle touring