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Kickbiking. Can I do this too?

Post author By Cindy
Post date November 28, 2022
9 Comments on Kickbiking. Can I do this too?

Part 2. Kickbiking. Can I do this too?

Part 3. How is the set-up? From an illogical set-up to one that works.

A write-up from 2020 unearthed:

After 50.000 kilometer cycling in roughly 5 years, through West Africa, Europe, Middle East, Indian continent and South America I thought it’ll be peanuts to kickbike a relative little loop somewhere through USA. Wrong. Yes, I needed a challenge. But I sort of forgot, or took out of the equation, that every new endeavor needs practice.

Tags How to kickbike, How to kickbike?, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbike Crossmax, Kickbiking, tips and tricks, Tretroller, Why kickbiking?

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A love story

Days of kicking: 9. Total distance: 275 kilometer. Average on a day: 30 kilometer while average speed is about 11 km/per hour. Nights of camping: 10. Average a day spend: € 5,60 (exclusive the new tick tweezer and the food I brought along ).

Clothes laundered in a creek, wet stinky shoes and a damp sleeping bag drying in a fishy corner surrounded by overflowing containers with unwanted-clothing, far removed from the main entrance of Tesco supermarket. I feel too old for it. Like I felt too old, or outgrown, for hostels and bunk beds. The last bunked I shared was in Malaysia; a room without a window, dark as a cell, except when the only female roommate stumbled in at night and left the light on. I must have been 35 years of age. Always been a loner, I disliked these dorms.

Tags Dóchegy, Devecser, Gic, Hobo stove, Homokbődöge, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbike Crossmax, Kickbiking, Kup, Lovászpatona, Pápa, Sümeg, Short trips, Tretroller, Vaszar, Várvölgy

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Kéktúra

Post author By Cindy
Post date March 8, 2022
12 Comments on Kéktúra

Kéktúra: an almost 1200 kilometer long walking trail through the upper part of Hungary. I kick a tiny part. Days of kicking: 3/Days in camp: 2/Average speed: 9/Maximum kilometers in a day: 60

Tags Balaton, Balaton lake, Blue Tour, Blue trail, Hilleberg, Hilleberg Soulo, Kéktúra, Keszthely, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbike Crossmax, Kickbiking, Mátraháza, national blue trail, North Balaton, Várvölgy

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Southwest Balaton Tour

Distance made: 65 kilometer. Average speed: 7.6. Number of nights: 5. Coldest temperature: minus 7.

Every time Geo and I drive in the car with lake Balaton quietly looming in the distance, the low series of mountains sharply contrasting, appearing to be a man-made painting, I feel a strong desire to be on those hills, looking out over the lake and absorbing the unrealistic looking shapes embracing the lake.

Tags Béndekpuszta, Camp fire, cold, Countryside, Fáncsi-hegy, Halsok árok, Hungary, Kárad, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, Off Road Tracks, Stealth camping, Vityapuszta, Wild camping, Winter, Winter Cycling, Winter in Hungary

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Comfort’s in sunshine, sweetness’ in the discomfort

Post author By Cindy
Post date December 2, 2021
3 Comments on Comfort’s in sunshine, sweetness’ in the discomfort

What is the thing with winter camping? I was never into it but when I had to cross Patagonia I could not avoid cold temperatures, snow and frost. Heat reaching to a 50 degrees is not pleasant either but cold starts to sit in the bones and makes stiff. Cold has the easiness to disable pleasure and make the whole trip a grim nonsense ongoing rather than a pleasurable challenge.

Plan: 2 nights camping, 70 kilometer in 2.5 days. Done: 1 night camping, 60 kilometer in 2 days. Average speed: 9 (much pushing through mud). Level of happiness and satisfaction: high.

Tags Camping in nature, cold, Countryside, Down sleeping bag, Forest, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, Little escape, Outdoor, Short story, Short Update, Sleeping bag, Sleeping in the woods, Winter

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Drava and Deer

Total distance: 170 km. Average speed: 10 km per hour (fully loaded). Days: 6.

My patience paid off: the weather forecast showed more than 7 sunny symbols in a row. It is the second half of February and the temperatures at night still drop below zero. But it ought to be dry, so fires will warm me (and stretching too).

Tags Alexanderpuszta, Barcs, Boronka, Boronka Melléki Tájvédelmi körzet, Camp fire, Camping life, Drava, Forest, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kutas, Nagybajom, Petesmalom, Rinyabesenyő, Short trips

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The Trouble with Travel (Segunda Jerusalén)

Post author By Cindy
Post date February 7, 2021
14 Comments on The Trouble with Travel (Segunda Jerusalén)

Tags Andes in Peru, Embroidery, Handmade Pouches, Kenton Motorbike, Kick scooter, Kickbiking, Motorbike, Motorbike travel, Pouches, Travel impressions, Traveling by motorbike

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A (failed) Winter Tour

Daytime temperature: zero. Daylight hours: 7 AM to 4.30 PM. Distance: a stunning 13 kilometers.

A short tour in January stretching from east to west at the North Balaton in Hungary is a very plausible plan.

Tags Balaton, Balaton lake, cold, Flat tires, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, Lake Balaton, North Balaton, repair, Repair & Spare, Rubber solution, Winter

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Kickbiking. How’s the set-up?

Post author By Cindy
Post date October 22, 2020
30 Comments on Kickbiking. How’s the set-up?

A set-up of any form of transport is important. Not when you are cycling or rolling back and forth to the bakery but when you try to get some distance done, it better be the right set-up for you. We did not had the chance to test any kickbike before we started the journey through the USA. We ordered straight from the Kickbike supplier and that is not the way I’d recommend. When I ordered my bicycle years prior I had it more or less custom made. This is crazily expensive, something I would not recommend either.

Tags Back rack, Big Agnes, Front rack, Hilleberg, Hilleberg Soulo, How to kickbike, How to kickbike?, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, tips and tricks

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USA 3: Corona Virus thus No More Kickbiking

Post author By Cindy
Post date September 14, 2020
6 Comments on USA 3: Corona Virus thus No More Kickbiking

So, a camping in Florida.

Can it get more adventurous than that?

Certainly not.

Corona Circus is doing well, it attracts lots of people. The show is being followed on television and though its running behind on Europa, a large following grows steadily in the USA as well.

Tags Being stuck, Bread made on fire wood, Camping life, Jacksonville, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Kickbiking, USA

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USA 2: Florida, Not Kickbiking because of Inflammation of Tendons (or Corona?)

Post author By Cindy
Post date August 20, 2020
19 Comments on USA 2: Florida, Not Kickbiking because of Inflammation of Tendons (or Corona?)

March: upon checking in at the airport of Guayaquil, Ecuador we were asked whether we’d been in China or Italy. Entering the USA we’d seen noticeboards warning for Corona virus. It’s a far away business for us, Corona, though not for our relatives in Europe, it seems the virus has gotten a hold there. It seems they all comply with what the government asks them?

Tags Camping life, Florida, Frogs and spiders, Gainesville, inflammation of ankles, Jacksonville, Kick scooter, Kickbiking, Lizard, Outdoor, outdoor living, Tendonitis, The woods

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USA 1: Kickbiking from Georgia to Florida

Post author By Cindy
Post date August 7, 2020
8 Comments on USA 1: Kickbiking from Georgia to Florida

From Ecuador to the USA. From a motorbike to something very different. Geo and I each make a concession: Geo goes kickbiking with me and I am okay with starting our tour in Georgia. Back in Ecuador I spend lots of time connecting off-road routes to tracks with small town roads towards hidden gems in Carolina and on to the Appalachians.

Tags A new adventure, Atlanta, Bible belt, Florida, Gainesville, Georgia, Getting married, Hawthorne State trail, Jacksonville, Kick scooter, Kickbike, Melrose, Push scooter, Silver Comet trail, Tendonitis, Tretroller, USA

Thoughts

Kickbiking. Why? How?

It’s different than cycling. Obviously. The challenge, after cycling the world 5 years, had vanished and I searched for a new demanding way of transport and travel. Because our society allows me, I discovered something so amusing as the kickbike… and I knew instantly, intuitively, that I would love it.

Tags How to kickbike, Kick scooter, Kickbiking, The start, Why kickbiking

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Kickbike

Post author By Cindy
Post date June 8, 2020
12 Comments on Kickbike

The Kickbike was bought online while we were in Ecuador. We arranged it to be shipped to an address in Atlanta, USA. That was March 2020 and I am liking this way of transport, especially for shorter tours. Yet Geo and I tried to kick through several states in east of USA.

Tags Kick scooter, Kickbiking, Push scooter, Tretroller

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Little Escapes

When cycling had stopped, the full outdoor lifestyle came to a halt as well. Yet desperately wanting to be out in nature there needed to be other outlets. That is not always easy to combine as the mindset has troubles adjusting: from a home base to try grasping that fleeting living-outside-having-no-home lifestyle. It has been some trying and searching, situations regularly and suddenly changed and having a steady base only recently, let’s see what’s in store.