Preparing for a Long Distance Bicycle Adventure

For baby boomers who love to ride bicycles, and that includes about 40 million or more of you, it’s possible that you may feel the wanderlust of your youth that still resonates in your bones.

If it does, today, you enjoy retirement and infinite possibilities to explore this planet via plane, boat, train and cruises.  For those who enjoy physical exertion, a bicycle journey across America or Europe may be the right ticket for you to punch.  Journeys on bicycle allow you to live “on the edge of wonder” for days, weeks and months at a time.

How do you prepare for such explorations?  How do you become physically fit?  How do you purchase the right bike, clothing and gear?

For those of you who dream of such an outrageously exciting adventure, you may find the answers in three books by this author:  Bicycling Around the World: Tire Tracks for Your Imagination;  How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World; and Old Men Bicycling Across America: A Journey Beyond Old Age. 

All three books give you several chapters on everything you need to know about buying a touring bike, fitting it to your body, outfitting yourself with camping gear, clothing, along with pack lists and all other points for preparing for a long-distance bicycle adventure.

Once you gather all the gear you need, you must train your body for the journey.  It’s a matter of starting out easy and growing your distances until you reach your optimal conditioning for riding long distances.