Every once in a while you run into a giant. A tree that stops you in your tire tracks and warrants a couple of hours of your life.
The giant on the right dwells in a sleepy town, barely on the map, near San Cristobal, Venezuela. We were looking for an alternate route to get to [...]
When I pedaled across Lesotho (the mountain kingdom completely within the borders of South Africa) there was exactly one paved highway. I was never on it. Instead, I pedaled on roads that could only be described as linear collections of large rocks. I remember one day’s progress … 9 hours of struggle … 17 kilometers.
I [...]
Bicycling.com (June 2009)
“Most books about cycling end up being about nothing other than cycling–sort of like what The Great Gatsby might have been like if it were a how-to about making money off moonshine and gambling. Willie Weir’s Travels With Willie is one of the rare bike books that gets it right.”Read the rest.