It is a case of Mission Complete following 32 cycling days that took us from Biarittz (France) to Salzburg (Austria). It was with a great sense of achievement and some sombre feelings (that it’s over) as we rolled into Salzburg 3 days ahead of...
Topics: Pigs On Tour

The last seven days have seen us on the home straight as we left Switzerland, cycled through Lichtenstein and then along the border between Germany and Austria. Once in Germany we have roughly followed a tourist route called the Deutsche Alpenstrasse...
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The Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on Nokia S60 smart phones. I have tested the application using a Nokia N82 over 5 weeks while cycle touring through the Pyrenees and Alps mountain ranges in Europe. The application and...
Topics: Equipment

Today we could choose to talk about some of the practical aspects of cycle touring like bicycle maintenance, route planning and the importance of stretching….YAWN….just seems a bit too boring right now.So instead, following are a few of the...
Topics: Cycling Chat

CyclePig was originally intended as an avenue to share some knowledge around cycling and cycle touring. It was not intended to be about my specific cycling adventures. But through the various posts related to our current tour I have been amazed and very..
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