Cycling

After a truly crappy night’s sleep in a difficult bed we mounted our bikes and set off to finish entering the Andes, climbing to the Cima Coppi (named for one of the greatest bike racers ever, the Cima Coppi is the

Today, the climbing truly begins–8,200 feet over 66 kilometers. There is no downhill today. There’s no secret to climbing; you spin the pedals and eventually you get to the top. The world contracts to breath, legs, and road; shifting gears,

Todays ride took us up and down a river valley as the road followed the contours of the hillside carved by the river. After a long hot day and and even longer hot night I stayed kept it mellow, and

Riding a bike in the Amazonian jungle isn’t so different than riding anywhere else, until you get your nose out of cycling and look around. We rode out of Puerto Maldonado at 7:00 am. There are 3000 miles at my

This ride comes from the passion of Lon Haldeman, one of the great ultra-cyclists in the history of the sport. Pac Tour’s main line of work is high mileage cross country tours in the U.S. (www.pactour.com) For fifteen years Lon