WT - Nicholai Bangsgaard, World Touring Cyclist, Best of West Africa!

Nicholai Bangsgaard has almost completed an entire bicycle WT - Bicycle World Tour 2006-2010. And recent updates via email from his blog Worldtravellers.dk give an eye-opener to any avid cyclist that is thinking or tempted to try on the WT experience. An excellent video/photo montage complete with Nicholai's favorite music from the road; this edition of his exciting updates features scenes and images from Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Mali (West Africa). 1.375 days, 61.000 km, 50 countries, 6 continents. A Danish Solo Expedition Around the World by Bicycle 2006-2010. Congratulations Nicholai, on your incredible journey around the world by bicycle!

WT: Cycling in Morocco - Youssef Boucetta

About 1/2 a year ago, whilst going through the Facebook groups, I met a young cyclist-to-be-Expeditioner named Youssef Boucetta. This guy is really cool, as I can say he will approach anyone and everyone interested in cycling, expeditions, bicycle touring, or those whom have devoted a great deal of their life to two wheels. I've been fortunate to become friends with such a great guy in Morocco, even though I have never been there or any place on that corner of the globe. Well, recently Youssef got handles on a new digital camera, an ace to his advance to sharing his goodwill message from Cycling in Morocco, and I wanted to share his recent work here on Korean-World. Although my site began as a space for my ESL teaching experience, it's now evolved, sharing the Cycling Spirit that forms a strong collective of riders around the world. I hope to experience the full-intensity of a ultra-distance cycling expedition , the time I will set aside to ride ONE, from the Arctic to Argentina in 2012-2013(32,000km, more about that over here). Ok, back to Cycling in Morocco...brought to you by Youssef Boucetta, a new name, one that will become familiar in Cycling groups, when this lad launches into his own World Expedition in the future. Until then, he's got a whole world to discover in Morocco, as I have found in South Korea. Look around you, the adventure is really right there where you left it, pick up yourself, pack your gear, and ride!!! - Brian Perich, writing from a small apartment in Siheung, South Korea.

Ride Earth - Photostreams on Flickr

Time to Jump into June, it's been a quick transition of months with cycling in weekend spinning mode (mountains with Murray a few weeks back), a trip to Jeju Island with my family, and next weekend's prospect of the Beach Blanket Apocalypse in Sokcho happening on Saturday. Options are to load the bike to Express to Gangneung and connect with Sokcho on Friday night, will be quite late then. The rest of the weekend will encompass this Beach affair with drum jams, swim-swim in the Pacific, and launch South on bike for more training Sunday-Monday. Prime weather predicted for cycling since the dry spell is now, and Monsoons are sure to come!

Ride Earth Photostreams on Flickr [LINK, FOR VIEWING PLEASURES!)

Ride Earth is a Collaborative-World-Cycle-by-Mountain Bike. I really enjoy reading their blog (or seeing their updates on Flickr), whichever progress line is equally digestible, in printed words, or the amazing photostreams, it's definitely worth a look at their adventure off the beaten-tracks (Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia...) Hope to see them on the other side of the world soon!

Where Are You Go? - Independent Film Trailer - Cycle Africa

WT: 175Km Weekend Highlights - Shuutak takes on his World Tour

Shuutak takes on his Cycling World Tour WT cutting across South Korea (Busan to Gangneung to Incheon), then ferrying to China (cycling to northern parts I was told) and on to Europe and Africa as part of his WT by bicycle. He is 25 years old, already ridden across/around Australia in 2007, he was plodding away gracefully against a stiff head wind...towards Gangneung, Korea today. We met yesterday while I was heading South to Uljin and he was heading North to Gangneung. It was great to cross paths again, ride together, and snap some photos for his WT 2009-2011. Best of luck on tour, "we must be strong" were his last words when I saw him, better believe it on his bike around the world. He seemed to be doing fine on his own, cycling a steady 9 Kph against the hungry headwinds, he had his ZEN in order. ^^!!! Shuutak has an amazing blog to look at [if you can read Japanese Kanji] but I think he will find a tweak for Wordpress that allows International translations, a Widget or Code could help with that. I know Nicholi uses it when blogging in Danish [ http://www.worldtravellers.dk ] and I have really enjoyed following his progress from South America months ago. Shuutak and I both rode the rains on May 16th which opened up my start from Gangneung to Donghae on the night T/RAIN (cycling in the rain at night). I cycled for 3 hours, covering a wee 45km from 9pm-12am Saturday on long ascending grades and short/steep descents into Donghae. Sunday/Monday combined I cycled 130Km (not-much-there distancewise) but the terrain was 4/5 on difficulty, mountains & more mountains!!! I should be talking about "Wordpress" right now because it would be easier to write and add photos, I've been tweaking this site for an hour, losing photos, moving bits and pieces, but I still haven't situated everything right :( Shuutak gave me his card, link to his blog is order (keep track of this WT Rider, as his tour has just begun!), http://shuutak.com short & easy enough to remember. We played the name game today, and finally I had Shuutak spell it out for me...TAK for short...I can't read his name card, but I'm sure he'll contact me for corrections & I'll fix things up a bit. The photos speak more than words, cycling after a days rain, stunning...but we found ourselves in clouds of pine pollen (my favorite allergy), but Shuutak wasn't bothered. Cycling for this weekend is over, but I wish my WT friend a safe, adventurous, and memorable trip of a lifetime! Finally bits: Shuutak rides a Surly - Long Haul Trucker, he built it up from parts he bought through online auctions, Ortieb front panniers, Japanese hardware (Nitto Racks), Shimano XT/LX components, heavy-spoked wheels, array of bottle carriers, front trunk/map holder, mats, MSR stove, and everything you'll ever need around the world ^^! Looked like a great kit, much to haul, but places will come when he'll use every bit he's got going with him...Great job Shuutak! ~Please correct me if I have your name spelled incorrectly! ^^Cycling on, and on with endless POWER my friend, Cycling on to your 100,000km, 100 countries goal, that's a load of traveling my cycling man! Good luck on days ahead! ^^!