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Taming the World’s Most Dangerous Road
64 kilometres of downhill, descending more than 3600 metres – just what the doctor ordered. After spending many hard days riding at altitude through the Andes into Bolivia, the traveling circus dubbed...
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New Horizons
The South American Epic cycling expedition has made it to Argentina: Riding in Bolivia was hard for many of the riders. The harsh conditions there made us anticipate Argentina with great expectations....
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“We are meant to struggle!”
Britten reports from a wet South American Epic cycling expedition: It started with a crack in the sky and ended with floating tent islands. We’re cycling all the way down South America, along one of...
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Colourful Northern Argentina
The riders and staff of the South American Epic are now on a day off in Santiago. Here is a look back on their time just recently finished traversing northern Argentina. After Bolivia entering...
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Wine and Dine Like an Argentine
Following up from our last Argentina reflection, here is another from Will from the South American Epic. Bolivia was memorable for the dramatic mountain views surrounding La Paz, the wind-swept...
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Staff Profile: Adrian Wood
Take a look behind the scenes at who our staff are helping to shepherd the cyclists from Cartagena to Ushuaia on the South American Epic. Here Britten interviews Adrian Wood. Hometown: Torquay,...
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Tubular Times with TDA
You may recall that tour medic Irin’s post from Northern Argentina. Here is tour staff Will explaining some more of that dramatic time of the tour. The South American Epic is now in the Lake District...
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Just Another Day on the South American Epic
Cycling in the Lake District on the South American Epic, Henry Gold gives us his first post. It is never easy to describe the appeal of TDA tours. Take today, a ride from Chanco to San Nicholas, a...
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Summing up Santiago
While it may seem to some ‘just like any other city’ in North America, it is like no other city in South America The cyclists on the South American Epic just completed the Lake District section on...
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Eyes Ahead: Patagonia Looming
Communications director Britten took a well deserved break from the tour and traveled ahead into Patagonia and came back with this report. The South American Epic heads onto the Carretera Austral...
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The Lake District: A Welcome Dose of Pleasant
We are by no means the first group to ride through Chile’s famous Lake District. Countless tour operators offer bicycle trips that wind and weave throughout the lakes and volcanoes the region is known...
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Slow Burning
Each of his fingers is like an uprooted tuber from years of working on his farm. His beard rivals that of Santa Claus and his general disposition just as cheery. His name is Santos, or Tito, as locals...
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Single Track Mind
“Logistic nightmare.” “Huge potential for error.” “Remote, isolated, and challenging.” We tried to prepare the riders for the worst, knowing that anything could happen along this stretch. The famous...
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The Silver Bullet
The silver bullet and I have spent many moons together now, we’ve pedalled through Saharan heat in Sudan, around the shores of Lake Malawi, past Elephants in Botswana, through the dry rocky passes of...
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Wind Swept
“The wind is a horse, hear how he runs. Through the sea, through the sky. Listen to how the wind calls to me, galloping, to take me far away.” -Pablo Neruda Wind: A cyclist’s greatest enemy while...
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50,000 Kilometres with Captain Brett Lanham
He used to captain enormous 350-meter-long ships and travel the oceans far and wide. Yet after his retirement he found that he was able to connect iconic maritime points by land, rather than by water....
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For the sake of a single verse
“Desert wanderers discover in themselves a primeval calmness which is perhaps he same as the Peace of God.” – W.H Hudson in Idle Days in Patagonia After starting on July 11th the group of intrepid...
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Finally, the Finale
It’s done. Terminado. Finished. We can all now proudly say that we’ve been to the ends of the earth after an incredible 5.5 month journey across South America and damn, does that feel good. As we...
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2015 South American Epic cyclists speak out
“I really like how you guys ride that fine line between organized and loco. It seems to come with the territory, and that’s part of what makes it great.” – Peter Stennhauser (USA) “I like the epic...
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Cycling Patagonia: Everything You Need to Know
Mystical Patagonia has stirred the imaginations of travellers for centuries. Its sparsely populated, wild, and beautiful lands extend down the triangle at the southern end of South America from...
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