If you are in or around Amsterdam this weekend you should think about taking in the Dutch premiere of "Where Are You Go", a documentary film about the legendary Tour d'Afrique Bike Race/Expedition.
Canada 2009 | 60min | Dir. Benny Zenga & Brian Vernor Where Are You Go chronicles f...
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Posted May 05, 2010 in News Blog Blog
Normally rest days are a bit of a gong show. You can never find anyone, everyone is staying at 4 different hotels. Then there is the obligatory bike repair, laundry and body repair that comes with rest days. We are only just now starting to get into a rest day routine.&nb...
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Posted May 04, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
Part race, part expedition, part social experiment, part madness...
Sure sounds like the Tour d'Afrique! Read more of Leah McLaren's 2010 experiences on this legendary bike expedition
here.
Then
join us for the ride in 2011!...
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Posted May 03, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
(photo by Jason Becker)
Driving in Africa is fun, stressful and at times exhausting.
On any given day you are just as likely to see donkeys, kudu or cows standing in or crossing the road as you are pedestrian and vehic...
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Posted May 03, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
De cabeça, consigo pensar em vários lugares onde me sentiria bem, nua: o chuveiro, o quarto, a sauna, um lago. Mas, pelada pedalando uma bicicleta numa estrada de cascalho no sol do deserto da Namíbia não me vem logo à cabeça. Não vem logo.
A estrada ...
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Posted May 01, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
Here is a summary of the latest results from the 2010 Tour d'Afrique Race. It was the ladies who shone on an otherwise rainy Elephant Highway section. They finished with 4 of the top 10 times among the 28 racers from Victoria Falls to Windhoek, Namibia:
Women
1. Gizzy Gartmair 45:09
2. Lynne Wolfso...
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Posted April 30, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
When you arrive at your office building, in the eco-friendly space your employer has provided for your bicycle, in the deep depths of the underground parking dungeon, do you pause before locking it up? Do you hesitate; begin to question the rationale of leaving your bicycle alone while you rid...
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Posted April 30, 2010 in How it Works Blog
Heading into large cities I prefer to call off the race day for safety but I wanted to throw something slightly different at our riders to try to shake off the doldrums of long flat riding days. So on the last day of the (Lack of) Elephant Highway we had a Team Time Trial. This took ...
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Posted April 30, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
As the 2010 Tour d'Afrique draws to a close, we are busy here in the Toronto office working on our next incredible trip -
An Indian Adventure - a 7 week odyssey through that remarkable country. All the research and planning we are doing only serves to get us more and more excited about thi...
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Posted April 30, 2010 in An Indian Adventure Blog
Às 5:00 da manhã estava escuro e frio, e chovia forte sobre as mais de 70 barracas espalhadas pelo terreno arenoso. À medida que os ciclistas lentamente surgiam de seus lares de nylon, a escuridão foi sendo enfeitada pelo brilho das lanternas de cabeça,...
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Posted April 29, 2010 in Tour d'Afrique Blog
