USA coast to coast tour

Building my bike in LAX airport terminal is something I've done before, so that wasn't too difficult just quite the a hassle after an already long day. Then I rode to the beach, Santa Monica peer where Route 66 ends/starts and then following a bike path to some kind peoples house in Culver city who let… Leer más

Culver city to Union station then a train to San Bernardino then uphill to campsite.



What a diabolical mess Los Angeles is. The amount of people and vehicles in such a place is not good for anyone, least of all pedestrians and cyclists. It's a noisy, smelly, chaotic and desperate place. So many people… Leer más

After a very noisy night between a road and 2 train lines where I didn't get more than 1.5 hours of continuous sleep I was ready to ride before it was light, so I left and started up the pass. The sun brought both beautiful light on the snow covered mountains nearby and more traffic to what was now a… Leer más

After a very noisy night between a road and 2 train lines where I didn't get more than 1.5 hours of continuous sleep I was ready to ride before it was light, so I left and started up the pass. The sun brought both beautiful light on the snow covered mountains nearby and more traffic to what was now a… Leer más

Lying in my tent with only the flysheet on it, I gazed up at the multitude of stars. The light of the moon meant I didn't need a headtorch on to find things in my tent. I hadn't expected such summer like weather so early in the year on this trip, to be able to just sleep out without the rain fly on the… Leer más

From my day off the previous day, on some Bureau of Land Management land, I started up and over a big pass, bigger than I expected in fact.

Then a nice descent and some wild Mules, and out onto some plains before another climb up and through Kingman and beyond.

Grants to Albuquerque was supposed to be mostly downhill but wow, a persistent headwind, temperature that didn't get above 5°c and all at altitude that I still feel like I'm not acclimatised to meant a tough day was had.

It's probably partly mental as having had 3 days off in a row I know from experience… Leer más

Incredible riding so far. My gosh the USA is vast. You'd have done the length of the UK almost twice by now.