For the past four days I’ve had one of my BicycleTouringPro.com readers, Bryan Bereford (20), staying with me in Park City. While in town, I took Bryan on several bikes rides in the area – the highlights of which were a short stint on the famous Mid-Mountain trail and a 30-mile round-trip ride out to the East Canyon Reservoir. Before arriving in Park City, Bryan rode his bike from New York to Colorado, where he then hopped in a car and drove to Park City, where he stayed with me for four days, and then jumped on an plane back to New York.

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A popular cycling website called BikeRadar.com recently interviewed me about my website at BicycleTouringPro.com and my life as a long-distance bicycle traveler. The resulting article was just released and I think it’s a nice little summary of what I’ve been up to over the past couple years. Check it out at BikeRadar.com!

On Wednesday my website at www.bicycletouringpro.com turned three years old.

I’ve been working incredibly hard on this website over the past few years, but it’s just now getting to the point where my hard work is paying off. You can read about some of things I’ve done with the site over the last three years by reading this post.

What I’m most proud of, however, is that in three year’s time I’ve been able to help hundreds of people conduct their own bicycle touring adventures and for the past seven months at least, Bicycle Touring Pro has been paying for the mortgage on my condo in Park City.

My goal for this site in the future is to continue helping other people and to have the site paying for my entire lifestyle by this time next year.

Earlier today the London Cyclist announced his list of the top 50 cycling related blogs. To see the list for yourself, just click here.

While BicycleTouringPro.com didn’t even show up on the list at this time last year, I am proud to announce that the site now ranks in at #30, which is pretty darn good for a website in such a small niche of the cycling world. I’ll be working hard to get the site to rank even higher on next year’s list.

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Today, myself and three other individuals (Alastair Humphreys, Tom Kevill-Davies and Kate Harris) launched a new website called the “Bicycle Travel Network.”

Tom, Al, Kate and myself all have a lot in common. We each run a website about bicycle touring and world travel… and each of us started traveling with our bikes at a very young age. Because of this, we decided to get together and collaborate on a project that would help other young people get their start in the world of bicycle travel.

The Bicycle Travel Network is the organization we created to help young adventurers get out and explore the world by bike. Our goal is to inspire, educate, fund, promote and consult with individuals and organizations who are interested in changing the way people travel by bike.

Over the next several months we will be posting new, unique and inspiring content to this new site… and (most exciting of all) we are going to be giving out several micro-scholarships to young people heading off on their first bicycle touring adventures. You can apply for the scholarships here.

Please head on over to www.bicycletravelnetwork.com and check out the new site. Let me know what you think… and please consider getting involved in any way you can.

On October 27th, 2007 I sat down at my computer and wrote what would become the first article in a series of hundreds (and potentially thousands) of articles, videos, and interviews on the topics of bicycle touring, world travel, and lifestyle design.

That night, I started a website called www.BicycleTouringPro.com, which has since turned into my largest and most successful Internet project to date. Now, exactly two years later, there are more than 320 unique articles, videos, and interviews on the site – each of which is read by more than 15,000 people each month from locations around the world.

This past year my travels by bike took me to Europe, where I spent nine months slowly making my way through 16 amazing countries. While in Europe, I was able to continue working and published an astounding 180 additional articles for BicycleTouringPro.com.

As of today, Bicycle Touring Pro has approximately:

• 15,500 Monthly Readers
• 2,073 Email Subscribers
• 1,109 Twitter Followers
• 299 Facebook Fans

While I’m happy with the progress being made at BicycleTouringPro.com, I still have a lot I want to do. I have some big plans for the site in 2010 and I hope that by this time next year my statistics have more than doubled.

It’s official. I’ve completed my 9th and longest bicycle tour to date.

On December 30th, 2008 I flew into Zurich, Switzerland and began what I can only describe as one of the most life-altering events of my entire life. For the next 254 days I traveled about Europe with my bicycle in tow and passed through 16 different countries. I met people along the way, took in the sights, learned a few languages (the basics at least) and had an absolute blast.

I documented much of the trip at BicycleTouringPro.com and uploaded photos from the entire journey to Flickr.com.

Now that the trip is over and I am back home in the United States I am only more confident that there will indeed be a 10th long distance bike tour in my future.

If you’ve been following along as I slowly made my way through Switzerland, Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, I thank you.

Thank you for being a part of my adventure and supporting me along the way!

I’ve just recently launched my latest online venture, a new website called 21Bikes.com.

The idea behind the site is extremely simple. People from around the world can upload a photo of themselves and their bicycle(s). If it’s a good picture, I’ll post it to the site within one of the 21 bike-specific categories. Then, once the picture goes live, it gets voted on and shared by users from around the world.

Those who participate in the site can submit a photo no matter what type of bike they ride, how old they are, where they live in the world, or what they look like. The only requirement is that the photo they submit include both THEM and THEIR BICYCLE. The better the picture, the better their chances of it being posted to the site.

The site is still very new and because it depends on a constant stream of user-submitted photos, I assume it will take some time to really get moving. I’ll keep you posted on the site’s progress as time goes by. But for now, I’m excited to see what happens.

The June ’09 issue of Xsport Magazine features a 12-page article I wrote about my 45-day journey by bike up the East Coast of the United States.

The article is an important piece because it places me and other bicycle travelers in the same category as athletes participating in outdoor activities like kayaking, windsurfing, skydiving, rollerblading and skateboarding.

To read more about my feature article in Xsport Magazine and what it means to the bicycle touring world, head on over to BicycleTouringPro.com