I’ve bought some thrilling information!
This Saturday I’m going to be releasing an unimaginable new guide all about Touring Bicycles. The guide goes to be known as “The Important Information To Touring Bicycles” and it’s going to be a guide that’s designed that can assist you find out about touring bikes and that can assist you discover the proper touring bicycle for you and your particular wants.
However within the meantime, I believed it will be enjoyable to share some emails I’ve acquired recently about bicycles made particularly for bike touring.
Prepared? Right here it goes:
Query From A Reader:
I hold listening to about totally different touring bikes. Everybody appears to have a distinct bike that they love essentially the most. What sort of bike ought to I get and what worth vary ought to I anticipate?
Seifer
My Response:
Seifer, you’re proper! There are a ton of various touring bicycles available on the market. You possibly can do analysis for days and days and by no means uncover all of them. To make issues worse, there actually is not any touring bicycle that’s greatest in each state of affairs.
There are touring bicycles made for a lot of totally different functions.
There are touring bicycles made for brief journeys round your house (which are additionally good for commuting). There are touring bikes made to go quick and that can be utilized for racing. After which there are touring bicycles which are designed to hold you and your gear all the best way around the globe.
So, step one to discovering the precise bicycle for you is to first decide what sort of touring you want to do.
If you wish to take a brief journey close to your house, you’ll possible need a completely totally different bike than somebody who’s going to trip their bicycle all the best way around the globe.
When you resolve what sort of bicycle tour you need to go on, then you need to take into consideration:
How a lot gear do it’s worthwhile to carry?
What sort of roads will you be touring on? And can they be paved roads or filth roads stuffed with rocks?
Will you be pulling a trailer or carrying a set of panniers?
And what precisely is your finances?
There are touring bicycles designed to suit your particular wants in any of those varied classes. However first you need to resolve what sort of bicycle tour you’ll be taking! Then you can begin searching for your ultimate touring bike by narrowing down your selections and hunting down the bikes which are out of your worth vary or not designed to your particular sort of bicycle touring.
As for worth, this too varies vastly.
You’ll find low-cost touring bicycles for as little as $600 USD… and you should purchase high-end touring bicycles for as a lot as $6,000 USD (and probably much more).
On common although, it’s best to have the ability to discover an incredible touring bicycle for anyplace between $1,100 and $2,500 USD.
It must be famous, nonetheless, that these costs are for the bicycle solely. By the point you add on the additional expense for entrance and rear racks, panniers, tenting tools and all the opposite gear you want, you possibly can be paying an entire lot greater than this to fully-equip your self for all times on the highway.
It also needs to be famous that many touring bicycles at present include all the pieces it’s worthwhile to get began in your first bicycle tour. For instance, the Koga-Miyata WorldTraveller is a touring bicycle that comes fully-equipped with entrance and rear racks, fenders, lights, a bell, pump, kickstand and water bottle cages.
Different firms promote solely touring bicycle frames. After shopping for the body, you then should construct up the remainder of the bicycle your self utilizing the elements and elements that you simply like greatest.
Most touring bikes, nonetheless, include a rear rack (and typically even with pedals), however for those who want a entrance rack, fenders, and every other extras, these must be bought along with the bicycle itself.
As you’ll be able to see, the worth of a touring bicycle can actually range. However for , high quality touring bike that may possible fit your wants, you’ll be able to in all probability anticipate to spend anyplace between $1,100 and $2,500 USD.
One other Query From A Reader:
Hello Darren,
To start with, I like your website. I inform individuals about it on a regular basis. However I’ve a query for you. I’m saving as much as purchase my first touring bicycle and I’m attempting onerous to resolve between which bicycles to purchase. I plan to trip my bike from my dwelling in upstate New York to my aunt’s home close to Lake Michigan this fall. I noticed you rode a Bike Friday folding bicycle by Europe final 12 months and I’m questioning if this sort of bicycle could be good for me additionally. Are you able to assist?
Dave England
My Response:
Dave, thanks a lot. I’m glad you might be having fun with my web site and studying a lot. And congrats prematurely on making the choice to take part in your first bicycle touring expedition.
Upstate New York is considered one of my favourite areas I’ve ever cycled in. I rode my bike up the East Coast of the US in the summertime of 2003 and Upstate New York was the greenest, most stunning a part of your entire journey.
Anyway, you requested about what sort of touring bicycle it’s best to get to your upcoming bike tour.
To reply, I first should inform you about why I took my little Bike Friday folding bicycle to Europe with me.
I took the folding bicycle to Europe with me as a result of my plan for that journey was to journey each with my bicycle and on the trains. As I’ve realized from doing 6-different long-distance bicycle excursions in the US, touring on a practice with a full-size bicycle is often not quite a lot of enjoyable. You often should field the bike up, pay an additional price, after which reassemble the bike while you get again off the practice.
I knew I used to be going to be touring through path lots after I was in Europe final 12 months and I knew I didn’t need to cope with the headache of touring with my full-size bicycle – in order that’s why I made a decision to take my folding bicycle as a substitute.
In the long run, I took 35 totally different trains after I was in Europe final 12 months and having the folding bicycle with me made touring on these trains SO MUCH EASIER!
Plus, the Bike Friday New World Vacationer labored completely for my time without work the bike as properly. It was in a position to carry all of the gear I wanted and I used to be in a position to trip the bike all the best way from Switzerland to Greece.
However in your case, I don’t assume you want a folding bicycle. You’re journey by New York and Canada goes to be primarily on paved roads.
Except you intend to journey a bunch sooner or later, you’ll in all probability be lots happier with a full-size touring bicycle designed for journey on paved streets.
Simply so : I’ve a folding bicycle that I take advantage of for touring, however I even have a full-size touring bicycle that I trip more often than not… and in your case, I feel you may just like the full-size touring bike an entire lot extra.
I hope this helps!
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These are simply two examples of latest emails I’ve acquired from Bicycle Touring Professional readers who wish to buy their first touring bicycles. However the fact is, I get emails like this on a regular basis!
Discovering your ultimate touring bicycle can actually be robust… and that’s why I’ve put collectively this new guide I used to be telling you about – “The Important Information To Touring Bicycles.”
Within the guide, I take you by the hand and stroll you thru the method of discovering your ultimate touring bike. Plus, the guide options greater than 200 touring bicycle fashions from massive and small firms everywhere in the world. It’s going to be essentially the most in depth information to touring bicycles ever created… and I feel it’s going to assist lots of people like Seifer and Dave who’re within the means of discovering their good touring bike.
I plan to formally launch the guide this Saturday (in simply two brief days), however in case you need to learn extra about it and decide up your superior copy straight away, right here is the hyperlink it’s worthwhile to go to:
http://bicycletouringpro.com/touring-bicycles-buyers-guide/
So, that’s it for at present. Thanks for studying… and make sure to take a look at “The Important Information To Touring Bicycles” when it formally launches this coming Saturday!
You may get the guide now by visiting the hyperlink above, however I’ll be sending out extra particulars very quickly about each the guide and a few tremendous cool, top-secret presents for individuals who resolve to buy the guide throughout its first week of publication.
Till then… make it an incredible day and I’ll communicate with you on Saturday.
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