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Archive for January, 2006

Travel Blog #3: easyJet ease up on hydraulic bikes

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

At the risk of the Travel Show turning into a “Bike Travel Show”, here is another interesting bit of bike travel info:
Bike Biz (http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/) have reported that easyJet (”Europe’s leading low cost airline”) has just lifted its ban on accepting bikes equipped with hydraulic suspension and/or brakes. Apparently they came under the heading of “prohibited materials”.  […]

Travel Blog #2: Movie Tourism

Monday, January 30th, 2006

There is little doubt that Crocodile Dundee, the movie, created some sparks of motivation for people to travel to Australia. But would they have seen many Ozzies hypnotising water buffalo to get them off the road? Doubt it.
Point Break - a nice little Hollywood surf movie.  The story reaches its crescendo when Keanu and Patrick Swayze […]

Travel Blog #1: Recumbent Travel

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

I’ve been thinking more about travelling by bike, “bike touring” if you like.  While travelling by foldup bike has its benefits as described by Richard Spence-Thomas (listen to Show #001), it does have its drawbacks, one being  increased wind resistance due to the very upright riding position.
One way around this is to go for a […]

Travel Show Podcast #001: Taking the Dahon Foldup Bike to the UK

Friday, January 27th, 2006

The TPN Travel Show #001 (MP3 - 25MB - 27min)
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
Hi - and welcome to the first edition of the TPN Travel Show!!
The purpose of this show is to bring you interesting stories about travel related products, places, people and ideas.
The first show is about a mate of mine named Richard […]