Bicycling Bucket List

Do you have a bicycling bucket list? The ultimate bike you would like to buy or build. Or maybe that epic ride or tour you've always talked about doing "some year" soon.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on September 15, 2013 at 10:00am

Cino Heroica (http://www.cinorider.com/cino-heroica/) or L'Eroica (http://www.eroicafan.it/en/). Or at least an extended bike tour of Tuscany...

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on September 15, 2013 at 1:09pm

Not having ridden RAGBRAI yet, that is first on the bucket list.  I also dream of cycling vacations in Italy and in France.  Looking forward to hearing from more folks to help expand my bucket list!

Permalink Reply by Drewbacca on September 15, 2013 at 1:44pm

Hilly Billy Roubaix, RAGBRAI, TOSRV, Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic and maybe ride a good portion of WA State along the Columbia River, "Crush the Commonwealth" Hopefully all in the next few years. I'd like to at some point ride from San Diego up to the top of Alaska. I'd also like to eventually ride Northern Italy and Southern France. ACA Northern Tier through Glacier NP. 

That Colorado Rockies ride looks great! 

Permalink Reply by yaj 7.4 on September 15, 2013 at 1:59pm
I want to do a tour of the Loire Valley in France.
Permalink Reply by Martin Hazard on September 15, 2013 at 4:14pm
I want a late 80's Yeti FRO in pristine condition. Still looking.
Permalink Reply by mark stetson on September 15, 2013 at 5:34pm

I'm still regretting passing up a Yet Road Project at the Madison swap a few years ago....

As far as others on the list, I'd like to try an Ottrott; a used one might be in the attainable category at some point.  If I won the lottery I don't play, I'd pay a visit to Dave Wages for a stainless Ellis.

http://elliscycles.com/Strada_Inox_stainless_road.html

Pretty much like the pictured bike, but painted main triangle and half seat stays, with polished lugs.

I'd like to spend a year(s?) riding around the UK on my Bob Jackson, working on farms in exchange for room and board.  Maybe continue on the continent until I got it out of my system.

 

Permalink Reply by Banshee: 12-15mi on September 15, 2013 at 5:55pm


yaj 7.4 said:
I want to do a tour of the Loire Valley in France.

You should look into "Travel with REI". They have a trip to Loire Valley.
http://www.rei.com/adventures/activity/cycle.html

I hope to take some of these trips in the near future. I'm traveling to Africa next summer for a bike trip.
Permalink Reply by MagMileMarauder on September 15, 2013 at 7:02pm

I'm in the midst of fulfilling my bike bucket list. Wasn't sure where I wanted to go at first, and opted for a South America trip. Started in Colombia in June, and 3 months later I'm almost half-way in Peru. Hope to make it to Argentina (after Bolivia) in about 4 months. Lots of challenges, but it's a great way to travel if you have some change saved up and some time. It's quite affordable even as I'm not a huge fan of camping. $20-$25 a day will be enough for food, and a decent (private) room with wi-fi.

Permalink Reply by We all have an inner Beast... on September 16, 2013 at 12:47am

Ride the Divide, maybe...

Also, would like to take some time off and ride across America for all of my fellow Wounded Warriors. Don't know all the logistics, but you never know. I have a family to support.

 

 

Respectfully,

 

Manny

Permalink Reply by Alex Z on September 16, 2013 at 1:35am

:O at MagMileMaurader's trip. Post more details at some point??

 

My dream is to bike ocean to ocean. :)

Permalink Reply by dan brown on September 16, 2013 at 3:23am

what a great thread. kudos to the OP for this one.

 

I don't have a formal bucket list per se; but here are a few of the things I have been able to

accomplish via bicycling in my XX years :

 

-deliver newspapers via bike (age 12-15) done

-buy a racing bike

-race

-RAGBRAI (2010 with "team team" from CL)

-50 mph (above : day 5)

-spend more time on the bike than sleeping (2006)

-SAGBRAW (twice)

-Bike in Europe (2012 - rode a 30 speed road bike all over tuscany; granny gears are NOT for grannys btw)

-own more bikes than I would ever need (in 2009 I had 5 or 6)

-have a bike stolen and not care (2009 : it was a bar bike; given to me by a friend. I only really wanted the lock and fender btw)

 

 

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on September 16, 2013 at 3:38am

Dan reminds me that about a year and a half ago I owned a cheap Schwinn hybrid--that's it.  The Schwinn is gone, but now I have a Linus Dutchie 8, a LHT, and a 1962 Raleigh.  And who knows what might be next?

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