Lightweight Bicycle Touring: Cycling Across America with Just 12 Pounds of Gear, I Rode This Adventure and You Can Too!, by Shawn A Wakefield
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Thank you for your interest in Lightweight Bicycle Touring, a new guide book that is your source for information on how to plan and execute a cross country bike ride without carrying heavy gear.
Have you ever considered riding several days across the country on a bicycle? Does the idea of touring on a bike under your own power appeal to you? It is possible to bicycle longer distances, and a long bicycling tour can be done by people at any age.
I have successfully ridden across the United States, coast to coast, carrying only 12 pounds of gear on my bike. I was accompanied by a friend who was 68 years old. If we can ride this far, you can too!
This guide book is a result of my coast to coast cross country bicycle ride, along with years of lightweight and ultralight backpacking experience. I will share with you how to lighten up and improve your chance of success and your enjoyment level for any bicycle tour. Topics include:
- Time of year to ride
- Training for a tour
- Starting a tour
- Detailed gear information
- Example gear weights
- Clothes washing
- Chain maintenance
- Directions and distances
- Route planning and changing
- Our journal through Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California
The guide book contains over 240 pages of helpful tips, how-to advice, gear information, and our trip journal. The printed book includes over 130 black and white photos, and the electronic digital ebook contains over 130 full color photos.
This book is written as an encouragement and help to anyone considering a long distance bike ride. I have encountered far too many riders carrying heavy loads; and these heavy loads can make a ride much more difficult and increase the chance of failure.
It is entirely possible to leave those 50, 60, or 80 pound loads behind and have a more enjoyable bicycle tour by travelling light. This how-to book offers practical suggestions and advice for lightweight or ultralight bicycle touring. I can honestly say that it is possible to reduce your gear weight to around 12 pounds, because I have done that, and then ridden across the country successfully.
Major sections of this book include my thoughts and experiences as a friend and I planned a coast to coast ride. The pre-trip thoughts will be helpful to others as they plan a cycling trip. Information compiled after our successful ride offers great details about our gear and all items selected and carried. Advice is also provided about practical aspects of the ride, and many of those topics were prompted by questions from others following our online journal.
Finally, my trip journal, with daily entries, is included as the last portion of this book. Readers can see exactly what the daily experience of a long distance ride might entail.
Whatever your dreams, I encourage you to start riding them. Whether it be 2600 miles on highways from coast to coast or 200 miles on a bike and pedestrian rails to trails project, bicycle touring can be enjoyed by nearly anyone.
Happy trails...
Shawn Wakefield
Lightweight Bicycle Touring: Cycling Across America with Just 12 Pounds of Gear, I Rode This Adventure and You Can Too!, by Shawn A Wakefield- Amazon Sales Rank: #292592 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-14
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .55" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 242 pages
About the Author Shawn Wakefield is a cycling and outdoor enthusiast living in southern Oklahoma. Shawn enjoys lightweight backpacking, travelling, bicycling, family, and friends. He retired early, at the age of 44, which may be the topic of a future book. He shares life with his wonderful wife Jana and three children. Shawn is thankful to God for this life and the life we can enjoy beyond through salvation in Jesus Christ. He is passionate about his Christian faith, strong marriages, financially responsible living, and enjoying life more by owning less.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Seriously, we carried less than 24 pounds between the two of us. By Bob Reynolds I can verify that Shawn and I (his partner on the cross-USA bike ride) both carried less than 12 pounds of gear on the trip.For me (age 68), traveling light was critical to the success of the ride. We encountered bikers who seemed to be loaded down with 5 to 7 times as much weight as we were carrying.Shawn and I began doing the research about 17 months before we began the trip. He searched for light-weight items that, while often more expensive, made the adventure easier and therefore much more fun for me. It was one of the greatest accomplishments of my life.The book was a joy to read and to relive the adventures that we shared as we biked 2,600 miles across the USA. We met interesting people and had some really great conversations with others who were also biking across the USA.I won't add any spoilers to this review (other than the fact that we arrived in San Diego safely), but I will alert you that you will enjoy reading about the method that we developed for fixing flats (we only had 4), the cool method that we used to find tube leaks on the side of the road, and Shawn's unique method of washing clothes at the end of each day.The book is a must-read if you are wish to improve your chances of successfully completing an upcoming bike adventure.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Big Secret: Credit Cards By Michael Sullivan The only real secret here is not a secret at all: they went credit card touring. Nothing wrong with that. However, to list their light load, including camping gear, but not actually *using* any of the camping gear is pretty disingenuous. Especially when they criticize the fully-loaded tourers they do come across for carrying too much. How would the author know whether they were carrying too much because he didn't camp even one night? And the mileages for such lightweight touring are kind of a joke but, again, nothing wrong with that because everybody is different. There are some good ideas here but the book devolves into run-of-the-mill blog posts fairly soon. I found myself quickly going through the last 2/3 of the book. Lots of filler. More of a vanity project than an essential book on the subject.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great information By Kindle Customer Not just another day to day journal of a coast to coast trip, but an excellent guide on how to plan, organize, and cut out unnecessary weight, making the trip less strenuous and more enjoyable. Either section was well worth the price, but it was even better getting two "books" on one volume.
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