Tag Archives: Equipment

Company For Christmas In The Caucasus

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
It’s December and the mercury is dropping fast. This week I experienced my first morning run in the falling snow, crunching quietly in the pre-dawn blue around the faded grandeur of Victory Park and its empty dilapidated walkways, crumbling statues and rusty fairground rides. The onset of winter took me back a couple of years to [...]
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How To Camp Anywhere And Not Get Busted

By Tom | Published: November 17, 2009
It’s that time again – another ‘how-to’ sharing the essential tools of the adventure cycle-touring trade. This time I’m going to deal with what is often a stressful thought for every rider: “Where the hell I am going to sleep tonight?!?”
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HDR Travel Photography For Beginners (Like Me)

By Tom | Published: November 5, 2009
If you’re remotely interested in photography and you use the internet, you’ve probably come across the term ‘HDR’. It means ‘high dynamic range’ and can be summarised as a method of preserving detail in the highlight and shadow of an image that would be lost on the limited intelligence and capability of a camera, but [...]
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How To Film Your Solo Cycling Expedition

By Tom | Published: October 27, 2009
I’ve filmed every significant step of the last two and a half years, but when I started I’d barely picked up a video camera before. This article will share some of the dos and don’ts I’ve learnt that relate to DIY bike expedition films, and DIY travel films in general, whether they’re destined for Youtube [...]
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First-Impressions Review Of The Extrawheel Voyager

By Tom | Published: September 23, 2009
During 2007 and 2008, Andy and I road-tested some prototype trailers for the Polish company Extrawheel who have been helping to support Ride Earth. Today we took the final production version of the Extrawheel Voyager for a spin to see how it compared to those early models.
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