Bicycle Touring: How to Prepare for Long Rides, Third Edition

Tells you how to prepare for a long bicycle tour, no matter what your age, financial situation, or physical fitness. Includes advice on the selection of a bicycle and other equipment, information on cycling clubs, other helpful organizations, and map sources and other research sources (all with links), with an emphasis throughout on the fun and the challenges of bicycle touring.
Extensive updates from the now-classic, best-selling first edition and from the 2nd edition include changes in equipment availability and prices, as well as discussions of equipment options such as smartphones and other smart devices. This new edition also gives advice on finding and using online bike-route maps and other new information sources for regions around the world, and it adds dozens of new web-links for a total of well over two hundred.