tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49704719592298619232024-03-13T05:28:06.034+01:00deCadence - cycling the worldMany journeys by bicycle from HK to the UK via China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey..........Cycling Guides, Visa Information, Travel Information, Central Asia, Camping,Border information, road guides, Norway, Romania, Bulgaria, trailer, baby, toddler, Albania, Sweden, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00186287648572238981noreply@blogger.comBlogger445125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970471959229861923.post-44322387937880875722017-03-17T14:08:00.000+01:002018-07-08T08:42:30.893+02:00Route and GPS Files for Taiwan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here's our route around Taiwan.<br />
The total distance was about 600km with several thousand metres of climbing over the Central mountains.<br />
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Here's also a folder containing all the fantastic maps that we used:<br />
The fantastic maps from Gecko Maps - Eastern Tibet have also been scanned and their are some copies there if you need to print some out. Make sure you print the key I was too lazy to join them up.<br />
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We flew to Chengdu, stayed with the lovely Sarah and Scott, two English teachers and then set off by bus to Songpan. From there are after a detour to Jiuzaighou to see the lakes we headed up and West into the Tibetan Autonomous Zone around Aba and across the high grasslands.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00186287648572238981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970471959229861923.post-9346507606513678052016-02-07T07:29:00.001+01:002016-02-16T01:34:41.432+01:00Cycling route information around and through KL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here is a folder of route information around Kuala Lumpur:<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Routes that get to the area where we live (avoiding all big roads)</li>
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<li>A pdf of the brilliant Bicycle Map Project for KL: http://studio25.my/map/140919_KLCTRMAP_S25.html</li>
<li>Installation files for the Malaysia Map project - an accurate and detailed version of the Open Street Maps version. This version can be added to Garmin Basecamp software and then installed for free on any Garmin GPS</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00186287648572238981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970471959229861923.post-51938779572787338262015-07-09T04:16:00.003+02:002015-10-31T07:52:05.283+01:00WarmShowers at its best with Darren and Cyndi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Darren and Cyndi live in an amazing house that used to be a Police Station, Fire Station, Law Courts, Council Offices and they bought it cheap and turned it into a cafe and their home. The judges seat is where they serve from and the witness box holds the coffee machine. They were super friendly and we had a great time there camped on their lawn, barbecued in the old police station, Leo got to pretend to drive an old council vehicle, and we got brilliant sandwiches and coffee for breakfast. Good to talk to, nice people with an interesting plan.</div>
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<b>Leo wandering in the shallow tidal channel</b><br />
While camping on the shore of Lake Quillan we met Dagmar and Scott who invited us to a gathering of friends in the quirkily named Sherwood Forest on the Long Beach peninsula. It involved a detour but was SO worth it. Communal cooking, campfires, music, fireworks for July 4th and lots of child friendly activities.. sandpit, swings, pirate ship.....and a brilliant tidal beach sheltered from the customary winds of this area.<br />
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In summer 2014 we hosted Eric, an American guy who stayed with us for a few days and entertained Leo quite successfully. When we knew we were flying to Seattle we realised that Eric might know stuff about getting to the ferry from the airport so we got in touch. Amazingly he offered to pick us up from the airport and host us for a couple of nights so that we could get over our jetlag.<br />
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This app was really useful and it is possible to add maps of anywhere in the world through the internal menus. We had the whole of Chile and Argentina on it and could check out the heights of passes or plan our overall route at night or on rest days, using the high resolution screen.<br />
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Compared to a laptop it saves a lot of weight and using a USB thumbdrive and an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go">OTG cable</a> we could put loads of TV programmes for Leo on it as well. Unlike the iPad we could charge it with our dynamo and it fitted nicely in the handlebar bag.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00186287648572238981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970471959229861923.post-79310059793521002482014-06-01T08:41:00.003+02:002014-08-10T21:02:03.863+02:00The Carretera Austral<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is a crazy road built to unify Chile under orders from Pinochet. The most recent section to Villa O'Higgins was finished in 1998. The way we did it (from Ensenada via Ralun) was about 1300km long.<br />
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<a href="http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?doc_id=5025" target="_blank">Crazy Guy on a Bike (Carretera Austral page)</a> - all sections described - really useful<br />
<a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Carretera_Austral" target="_blank">Wikipedia - Carretera Austral</a> - loads of history and context <br />
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Below are files that you can open in Google Earth. The kmz file can be expanded to see the separate sections in Google Earth and you can import it into the free Garmin BaseCamp software to send it to your gps:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="400" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://app.box.com/embed_widget/f36m85bcjq17/s/v6w200to27ms5mud3qy4?view=list&sort=name&direction=ASC&theme=grey" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="680"></iframe></div><br />
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The last 21km section across the border into Argentina involves a boat, pushing up a farmers track for 5km, 11km of OKish riding, and 6km of pushing, lifting and carrying your bikes and bags through a forest, over streams, roots, rocks and for the last 2km, down a heavily eroded gash in the earth 'just' wide enough for your bike.<br />
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Below are files that you can open in Google Earth. The kmz file can be
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00186287648572238981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970471959229861923.post-23895300508583283812014-04-15T19:00:00.000+02:002014-04-24T22:24:18.126+02:00Cycling finished, a broken rim ends the ride 200km early<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As we rode the last few metres into Victoria, Isabelle complained that her brakes were rubbing. We checked it out and discovered that the rim was completely destroyed in several places and on both sides. Before we started we had wondered if the wheel would last because the surface was getting a little concave, but we assumed that with Isabelle's lighter weight it would last the trip. We were nearly right. The wheel has done about 20,000km so it's lasted well. Now she has to decide does she get a Rohloff hub on the next one?</div>
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We had to get a bus up to Chillan and then the train back to Santiago a day earlier than expected, but in the grand scheme of things we have been very lucky. My bike broke just after the Carretera had finished and Isa's the first day we arrived in a major town in Chile. If the weather hadn't been so shit in Argentina it would have broken on a dirt road or a high pass further North and we would have had a lot more trouble getting back for our plane home.</div>
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