Cycling Europe

31/08/2026

Name that famous moor!

31/08/2026

Bicycle tourism is one of the most enjoyable ways to discover Europe, with an enormous variety of routes, landscapes and cycling experiences. Cycling Europe can mean following comfortable bike paths, quiet roads, river cycle routes, former railway lines or more adventurous gravel sections. Each coun...

31/08/2026

Final-day-of-the-holidays ride… But where to go?

30/08/2026

The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 104: Heinz Stücke / Robert Dudley / Saillink / Chris & Nicky Clark

In episode 104 of The Cycling Europe Podcast, in an interview from episode 024 of the podcast recorded in 2020, the long-distance cyclist Dr. Stephen Fabes talks about meeting the world-recording-breaking cyclist Heinz Stücke who died in July 2026, Robert Dudley argues that it should really be ‘touring on a bicycle’ (as opposed to ‘cycle touring’), Andrew Simons updates us on the future of the Saillink channel crossing boats that featured in episode 091 (and we hear the words of satisfied customer John Metcalfe) and last, but by no means least, Chris and Nicky Clark reflect on their experiences as tandem cycle tourers (or should that be tourers on a bicycle?)....

https://cyclingeurope.org/2026/08/30/the-cycling-europe-podcast-episode-104-heinz-stucke-robert-dudley-saillink-chris-nicky-clark

27/08/2026

The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 103 – Rob McIvor – What Goes On Tour

In episode 103 of The Cycling Europe Podcast, Rob McIvor discusses his new cycling novel, What Goes on Tour; “In July 1977, Harry Chatham is on the brink of becoming the first British winner of the Tour de France when a crash on a twisting mountain descent ends his life and consigns him to a footnote in sporting history, but decades later…”...

https://cyclingeurope.org/2026/08/27/the-cycling-europe-podcast-episode-103-rob-mcivor-what-goes-on-tour/

26/08/2026

Coming soon to Audible… the ‘Reggie Audiobook Collection’ (and a new bit of artwork from Andy Mitchell).

26/08/2026

EuroVelo 6… With A Twist (Of Luxury)

EuroVelo 6, the 'Rivers Route' that heads across Europe from west to east and follows some of the continents greats rivers (the Loire, the Rhine and the Danube) for much of its route is one of the network's most popular cycles....

EuroVelo 6, the ‘Rivers Route’ that heads across Europe from west to east and follows some of the continents greats rivers (the Loire, the Rhine and the Danube) for much of its route is…

24/08/2026

BREAKING NEWS….
With the completion of the recording of ‘Spain to Norway…’ today (it was a long day!), the full ‘…on a Bike Called Reggie’ trilogy has now been completed. Many thanks to Luke and Billy - the sounds engineers - and to Jack from SNR Audio for instigating and producing the entire project. The books will be available to stream / download via Audible from October 1st. Recording of ‘Le Grand Tour on a Bike Called Wanda’ starts in September and will be available later in the year.

23/08/2026

Cycling Europe: Late-Summer Update

I predicted a few weeks agp that it would be a summer of no (long-distance) cycling, and that's certainly turned out to be the case. Today is Sunday 23rd August and there's a week of the school summer holidays left before I return to work as a teacher on September 1st. Much of my summer has been taken up with recording the audiobook versions of the three 'on a Bike Called Reggie' books of course. The first two books - Crossing Europe... and Along The Med... are complete and 55% of Spain to Norway... is also done. It's a shorter book that the others so I'm hoping that tomorrow - my final scheduled day of twelve in the studio - will see us complete the remaining 45% of that book as well. The final book - Le Grand Tour... is going to be recorded over several Fridays in September and October (as I don't work on a Friday)....

Discover insights from this quiet summer of cycling, audiobook recordings, and future cycling adventures on CyclingEurope.org.

23/08/2026

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