Strange Bikes

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It’s the end of Bike to Work week in the U.S. and I thought we’d end with a few bicycles you may never have seen before.  Frankly, I’ve only seen one of these on the road before. The pedal bike bar. A genius idea or a really stupid one?  I can’t tell, but the idea [...]

Photo: End of the World

Death Road, Bolivia

We couldn’t end Bike to Work Week without a photo from perhaps our favorite biking experience- the death road in Bolivia.  If you’ve never heard of it, the death road is a somewhat infamous stretch of road stretching from La Paz, Bolivia to the amazonian lowlands.  It’s a narrow road with sharp turns and a steep [...]

Great Places to Rent a Bike

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Even if you aren’t an avid cyclist, there are times when it’s just nicer to be on bike than in a car or bus.  The ability to ‘stop and smell the roses’ so to speak and go at your own pace is an aspect of travel that can’t be ignored.  Here are a few places [...]

Photo: Biking at Work

Biking in Kruger Park

Well biking to work isn’t all fun and games.  Just check out this daily ride for some wildlife rangers at South Africa’s Kruger National Park.  Everyday they take tourists on a cycling trip in the bush.  Notice those shotguns.  Our guide had only had to use his once, and in that case it was just [...]