Here is a Great resource for those interested in bike touring.
Bicycle Camping and Touring: A complete guide to bicycle touring, including bicycle gearing, planning a trip, selecting gear, chosing a tent, making touring bags, carrying a laptop, camping in the woods, reading maps, predicting weather, and cooking meals. In addition, this directory includes accounts of 35,000 miles of long and short bicycle camping trips all over Eastern and Central United States and Canada.
The Cyclist Lifestyle: A look into the cyclist's psychology, sociology, interests, preferences, and attitudes. Includes articles on bicycles, the selling of bikes and equipment, and the cyclist's behavior and beliefs. Includes the True Cyclist?.
Basic Skills for Cyclists: Includes mechanical skills -- bike repair, fixing a flat, and truing a wheel, plus basic skills that every newbie should know and how to climb and descend hills.
Tragically, Ken Kifer died on September 14, 2003 after being hit by a drunk driver just 6 miles from his home near Scottsboro, Alabama. He was 57, may his soul rest in peace.
