Original and fun new bikes were introduced at the London Cycle show last weekend. Among our favourite were a little electric bike and super stylish folding bicycles… Here’s more:
The International Cycle Show 2004, London, is taking place right now, until the 26th Sept, at the Business Design Centre in Angel.
Your chance to see the new 2005 models and accessories.
Fee: 10 – for more information see www.cycleshow.co.uk…
Sockeye Cycle organise cycle trips around Southeast Alaska and Northern Canada. They provide bike and camping equipment, or indoor lodging facilities if you prefer.…
Adventure Cycling Association make cycling routes and maps.
Their researchers link together rural roads to create cyclist-friendly routes through North America. You can buy their maps online they also sell cycling equipment and have a cyclist’s yellow pages. They have a couple of educational projects, to inspire adults and children to travel by bicycle, and also organise bike tours.…
Baby carriers that turn into chairs; backpacks that turn into child carriers… having children is not a reason to stop hiking anymore, and here’s why:
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Here are a few specimens of the new camping stove generation. They work in the wind, they love below-zero temperatures, weigh a few ounces and take almost no space — a must-have if you want to be ready for anything, anytime…
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In the past couple of years, sports sandals have grown up, evolving from cousin of the flip-flop to globetrotting year-round shoe.
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Known as the Type 2, or “bay window” van (its predecessor had a beaky nose and split windscreen), it fell off the twig in Europe in 1979, but factories in South America kept churning them out. Two Gloucestershire-based brothers, Chris and Jason Jones, have been quietly importing the vehicles from Brazil since the late 1990s and have developed a lucrative sideline converting them into caravans, although minibuses and bog standard vans are also sold.…
The Camper-van revolution is upon us. The RV is shaking off its image of snoring retirees and untethering itself from power supplies or campsites.
Enter the Earth-Roamer XV LT, a gnarly, $155,000 built to order rig that charges off the grid in grand enviro style.…
We can send a man to the moon and computer power doubles every 12 months, but what the hell happened to batteries? They just are not getting better fast enough.
What good is my multifunctional cellphone, digital camera, or iPod, if it runs out of juice after an hour? The more powerful these little devices become, the more power they consume and heat they throw off. Forget getting my thighs singed each time I use the laptop.…
Sailing is a great way to escape, get back into shape physically and mentally, and just a great holiday. And you don’t have to know how to sail to go on a sailing holiday. For the price of a hotel room, yachts can be chartered with a small crew, so you can just sit back and relax.
Here’s a selection of the best places to rent bareboats and skippered yachts around the UK.…
Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge is a self-built and self-sustainable retreat in between the mountain and the sea in Alaska, far away from
everything and everyone apart from wildlife.
The lodge…
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