Bikepacking & Off-Road Cycle Touring Guide: How to prepare, plan & undertake extended bikepacking adventures
About this ebook
While this book is aimed at cyclists planning long distance off-road oriented tours, the information within contains many gems that are applicable in any bikepacking scenario, long or short.
The evolution of bikepacking bikes, luggage, technology and know-how have made off road cycle touring adventures more possible than ever. There are a huge variety of published bikepacking routes all over the world, and the information to plan our own lies just an Internet search away, or within detailed maps and imagery that we can access on our phones.
In the Bikepacking & Off-Road Cycle Touring Guide adventure bikepackers Mark Watson and Hana Black draw on their wealth of outdoor experience to provide their view of travelling by bike: how to travel long and light on adventurous routes while having fun along the way.
About the author
Mark Watson and Hana Black have been mountain biking and cycle touring for over 30 years. They bikepacked with homemade equipment long before the name became popular and have travelled by bike in 29 countries, as well as participated in many ultra distance cycling events and races, including Tour Aotearoa and Tour Te Waipounamu.
Both have a long association with the outdoor industry; Hana has worked in outdoor clothing and equipment design and development for over 25 years, while Mark has worked in soft goods manufacture and been a product reviewer, magazine editor, publisher, writer and photographer.
Bikes are not the only means by which Mark and Hana experience the outdoors and both have been climbing and tramping as long as they have been cyclists.
As well as being committed bikepackers they are also route developers, having contributed classic routes such as the Trans-Mexico and Camino del Puma (Perú). Their blog www.highlux.photo is a well known resource in the bikepacking community.
Their home base is Lyttelton, New Zealand.
