Useful Links

“Bike Touring Basics” FREE ebook This inspirational and FREE ebook called “Bike Touring Basics” is awesome! 60 pages of advice, tips and inspiration, drawn from Friedel and Andrew bike touring experience and put together with photos, quotes and contributions from across the bike touring community. It will encourage you to get out and travel by bicycle, as well as answering some of those questions everyone has when they get ready for a big tour.
ABM (Aventuriers du Bout du Monde – in french). This is an organization that we have belong to for several years. A lot of information and a very complet web site.
BICYCLE TOURING EQUIPMENT Are you looking for the toughest, most reliable, and most adapted bike touring equipment? Are you looking for experienced bicycle travelers to give you relevant advice and subtle tips and tricks? Or, do you have useful experience and brilliant tips to share yourself? This site will be exactly what you are looking for. Thanks to its extended network of experienced bicycle travelers, this site offers an excellent forum (www.cyclocampingforum.com), great reviews and even a trip and tricks section.
Cartes (Maps – in english). Thousand of maps are available here.
CCI (Cyclo Campıng Internatıonal – in french). We are working for this french organisation for cyclotourist. We learn a lot from them thanks to the experience of the thousand people who belong it and share their experience.
Change (Exchange rate – in english). Perfect site to know the conversion between any money around the world at any time.
EKIT (In english). Great service from Lonely planet. in order to call for a cheaper price from a foreign country and to keep in touch with your family and friends. A lot of free services like send or receive voicemail.
FORUM CYCLOTOURSIM An excellent network of experienced bicycle travelers feed this easy-to-use forum.
Fred Ferchaux (In french). A lot of information about his trip. If you want to bike in Tibet, Iran, Pakistan etc… there, you will get photos, journal and a lot of stuff.
Globe-tortues (In french) Edwige and Zabette finished their world tour by bike in June 2004. A nice site with tons of pictures, drawings and nice stories. They had crazy adventures in Iran, Cashmire, Mongolia and many other places… Please take a look!
Gouvernement français (In French and English). Recommendations from the French government.
Lonely Planet (In english). They definitely sell the best guide book and also a lot of information can be found on their website.
Meteo – moyennes (Average Weather – in english). Temperature and precipitation all around the world plus a link for the forecast.
Meteo du jour (In english). Weather all around the world updated every day.
Ofoto (In english). Free web site which allow you to storage and share your pictures on line.
Paris-Pekin (In french and english). One of our favorite site about Isabelle and Xavier who travel for two years in several countries by bike. They had the idea of doing research about the music around the world. There is wonderful pictures and funny stories.
RFI (Radio France International – in french and english). Very usefull to be aware of the news wherever you travel.
Sante – actualite (Health/news – in french). Some information reguarding health before and while you travel.
Sante – equipements (Health/equipment – in french). Informatıons and everything for a good price.
Sante – precautions (Health/precaution – in french). Their medical team is very professional, and their website give a good idea about the precaution to take before travelling.
travellingtwo.com One of the best website for bicycle touring information. They offer tons of excellent articles, podcast posted regularly, great info on any aspect of bicycle traveling, country info, a blog, a newsletter, a free ebook and much more!
Tupuna Pension A great address, in a gorgeous landscape, on a paradisiac island, in one the nicest part of the wold: this is Tupuna Pension. This pension is on an island called Huahine which is one of the most preserved island in French Polynesia. There you ll meet the owners, Franck and Loretta, who are going to make your trip one of the best experience in your life. All informations are available on their website.
UNESCO (In french and english). Everything about the cultural and/or natural world heritage site classified by UNESCO.
Vincent et Magaly We met Vincent and Magaly while they were doing a trip around the world. After crossing Russia with the transsiberian, in China, they decided from a scratch to continue their trip by bicycles… Is that brave or what?
Visas (In french). Everything about visas and in order to apply online.
WebMaster (In french). The personal website of our cousin Jean the webmaster of our site.