Forums cleanup: Please help

Submitted by rfay on Sun, 2009-09-20 16:20

We need a little help cleaning up the forums. Sometimes people post there and old, obsolete things about ancient tours remains.

If you are reading in the forum and come across an item that is out of date, irrelevant, or generally obsolete, please click the little link below it that says "mark obsolete". We'll delete it and we can have a less-cluttered site.

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Links

Submitted by rfay on Tue, 2006-01-03 16:40

Here are some links to other sites you might be interested in:

Cycling Organizations

Adventure Cycling - Great organization, mostly US-oriented.
BikeAccess.net - Excellent information about transporting bikes on any type of transport
Cicloturismo Peru provides free hospitality, advice on route planning, maps, mechanical assistance, baggage storage and fowarding, etc, to all bike tourists arriving in Lima, Peru. Member Anibal Paredes.

Hospitality Networks

Servas.org An international, non-governmental, multicultural peace association run by volunteers in over 100 countries.
HospitalityClub.org
GlobalFreeloaders.com
CouchSurfing.com - Probably the biggest hospitality network of this type, with an amazingly large global membership
Bewelcome.org - Another, newer hospitality network.
Crazyguyonabike' own list of private houses offering no-fee hospitality to touring cyclists
CAC, the hospitality branch of Cyclo-Camping International, Association of bicycle travelers. The CAC website is in English, Spanish, and French.
Casas de Ciclistas in Latin America - the famous Latin hospitality houses for touring cyclists.

Miscellaneous

Phred.org: The most lively forum (mailing list) on bike touring issues.
Bikejournal.com
Bikeforums.net - Lots of forums on various bike issues.
Biketouringtips.com - Website dedicated to bike touring
Lonely Planet's traveler's forum for all countries of the world, including travel by bicycle

Travelling almost for free

Submitted by Marisa on Wed, 2010-08-04 00:14.

I just found out that there has been published a little book about "traveling almost for free". It is in German only up to now but they are looking for an English publisher as well, either Great Britain, US or Canada.
It´s a nice review about hospitality networks and it also introduces the reader to Warm Showers which unfortunately is not very well known in Germany so far.
I hope you don't consider this an unwanted advertisement - just wanted to update you on the news.

http://www.amazon.de/Fast-Gratis-Reisen-Guide-Gastfreunschaftsnetzwerke/...

Marisa

BeWelcome.org ?

Submitted by bikepunk on Sun, 2010-03-21 19:56.

I suggest to add BeWelcome.org in the links. It is a hospitality exchange service that is run by a non-profit organisation and using an open source software.

I added bewelcome.org to the links

Submitted by rfay on Sun, 2010-03-21 22:35.

Thanks for the note. I added bewelcome.org.

Cyclo-Camping International

Submitted by Velomad on Wed, 2009-06-24 01:21.

Just a quick note regarding the CCI.

The CCI is a French cycling club whereas the CAC (Cyclo-Accueil-Cyclo or Cyclist-Welcome-Cyclist in English) is the hospitality network that is part of it.

There is a fee for joining the CCI but it is free to become a member of the CAC.

Whilst the CCI webpage is only in French, the CAC webpages are also in English, Spanish and Portuguese and are accessible from the CCI webpage - click on CAC in the right hand menu (or just follow this link

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