Cycle Travel

Whether you’re safeguarding against dehydration on a long bike ride off the beaten track or prepping for the apocalypse, a small portable water purification system is a useful bit of kit. A Camelbak/LifeStraw collaboration has given birth to a clever 1-litre bottle designed to harvest and purify water from lakes and rivers by filtering out...

Bicycle caravans will always be a heavier, more expensive and less practical alternative to carrying a tent, but thankfully that doesn't stop people building them. We speak from experience, as our very own QTvan holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest bike caravan. Our...

Cycle camping is a pursuit as old as the bicycle itself. Now reinvented as ‘bikepacking’ the business of setting off to ride and camp, taking with you only as much as you can carry, is an adventure whether you travel near or far. To help get you started, we have a Quechua three-person tent to give away. Win a tent for summer cycle camping...

Heinz Stucke spent 50 years visiting over 200 countries and territories, covering 648,000km in the process - most of them on a 25kg, 3-speed bicycle loaded with another 40-50kg of luggage. The Netflix documentary 'The man who wanted to see it all' is a series of astute observations, remarkable impressions and even a touch of philosophy from...

Birmingham may be one of the country's original motor cities, but like so many of our urban centres, it is blighted by congestion and pollution - 25 per cent of the city’s car journeys are one mile or shorter. However, change is on its way. In a bid to tackle costly congestion and create a more liveable city, the council will introduce a...