Cycle Touring Festival 2024
Friday 3 May โ Sunday 5 May 2024
John Ruskin School, Coniston
This yearโs Cycle Touring Festival is an in-person event, at John Ruskin School in Coniston, Cumbria.
Warmshowers: New Website Coming On March 5th
The Warmshowers website has always been the weak link in the organisation. It never seems to have moved with the times and has been somewhat ‘clunky’ to use. Well, news arrives of an updated website. It looks as though they have started again from scratch rather than tweaking the old website (which is presumably why the site will be unavailable for 24 hours immediately before the new one being launched). Tuesday 5th March is the launch date. Not sure if the app is also changing.
The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 077 – Agathe Daudibon / Svetlana & Quentin / Seth Maltzmann
The Cycling Europe Podcast is back and for this first episode of 2024 we have a triple-whammy of cycling-themed chats and stories. The EuroVelo network is now 26 years old but itโs not resting on its laurels. Agathe Daudibon of the European Cyclistsโ Federation is the person responsible for looking after the network and developing it further. She talked to the podcast about her background in cycle touring, her role at the ECF and how she sees the future of the pan-European network. Svetlana and Quentin, from Oxford, talk about their experiences of cycling along the coast in Croatia. And Seth provides something that he feels the podcast is missing; how bike tours can โturn into complete disastersโ. His certainly have!
Episode 077: Agathe Daudibon / Svetlana & Quentin / Seth Maltzmann
The Cycling Europe Podcast is back and for this first episode of 2024 we have a triple-whammy of cycling-themed chats and stories. The EuroVelo network is now 26 years old but itโs not resting on its laurels. Agathe Daudibon of the European Cyclistsโ Federation is the person responsible for looking after the network and developing it further. She talked to the podcast about her background in cycle touring, her role at the ECF and how she sees the future of the pan-European network. Svetlana and Quentin, from Oxford, talk about their experiences of cycling along the coast in Croatia. And Seth provides something that he feels the podcast is missing; how bike tours can โturn into complete disastersโ. His certainly have!
Route YC: Cycling The Yorkshire Coast
Markus Stitz has been featured several times on this website and here he is again. And when I write ‘here’, I really mean ‘here’. He’s been to Yorkshire with Mark Beaumont and Heather Graham to cycle the length of the Yorkshire coastline. The route the trio followed has been rebranded and relaunched as ‘Route YC’ (Yorkshire coast) and Markus has made another beautiful film to add to his growing collection of stunning cycling films.
Bicycle Shows: Big And Not-So-Big (And N+1s…)
June, it seems, is the month for bike shows, certainly in 2024. In the weekly email from Cycling UK there’s mention of the National Cycle Show in Birmingham from the 15th-16th of June. It will be the place to see all the big names of the cycling world (at least that haven’t recently stopped trading…). In contrast, I received an email reminding me of an alternative cycle show last week. It will also be taking place in June over the weekend of the 28th to the 30th and this year is taking place in Manchester. It is Bespoked.
Jennifer: Cycling In Southern Spain In The Winter
Every so often I get an email from someone who has been cycling somewhere interesting and would like to share their story. I’m always happy to oblige. One such email arrived this week, from Canadian cyclist Jennifer. She’s currently in Spain with her husband, bravely cycling through the Spanish winter. I remember being in Andalusia in the run-up to Easter back in 2015 and although we had some lovely warm days on the coast, once I started cycling north and into the mountains, it could get chilly. I would imagine that’s certainly the case in January and February. Jennifer asks a question about cycling from Seville to Cordoba. If you have any information to help her I’m sure she would be delighted to hear from you via her website. Anyway, keep reading. Here’s her story…
The Cycle Touring Festival 2024: News Update!
Some good news this week from Laura Moss at The Cycle Touring Festival. There was some doubt about the future of the festival last year as the location of all the in-person festivals to date – Waddow Hall in Clitheroe – is in the process of being sold by the Girl Guide Association. Would it return to Clitheroe in 2024? Would a new venue be found? Would, indeed, the festival return at all? These were the questions in many attendees’s minds as they headed home from the October gathering a few months ago, shivering from their two or three nights in a tent.
