Rolling East - Rolling East https://rollingeast.com A bike ride across the world Sun, 05 Jul 2020 23:03:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://rollingeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-Untitled-design-2-32x32.png Rolling East - Rolling East https://rollingeast.com 32 32 The Best Touring Bike: VSF Fahrradmanufaktur TX-400 https://rollingeast.com/the-best-touring-bikes-we-could-wish-for/ https://rollingeast.com/the-best-touring-bikes-we-could-wish-for/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:36:20 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=230 I’ve had years of experience with bicycles and I couldn’t tell you how many I’ve owned over the years – BMXs, trials bikes, hard-tails, full suspension mountain bikes..you name it! But when the need for a touring bike that could take us across the world came up, I was a little lost. After scrolling the …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/the-best-touring-bikes-we-could-wish-for/feed/ 11 Cycling the Pamir Highway: A Practical Guide https://rollingeast.com/the-ultime-guide-to-cycle-touring-the-pamir-highway/ https://rollingeast.com/the-ultime-guide-to-cycle-touring-the-pamir-highway/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:15:18 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=459 Every year hundreds of cyclists embark on the journey through one of the Mecca destinations for adventure cycling: the M41, more mystically known as the Pamir Highway. One of the highest highways in the world, second only to the Karakorum Highway, it winds through many 4000m+ peaks and the Roof of the World, the highest …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/the-ultime-guide-to-cycle-touring-the-pamir-highway/feed/ 12 A Head Full of Dreams at the Lantern Festival in Chiang Mai https://rollingeast.com/a-head-full-of-dreams/ https://rollingeast.com/a-head-full-of-dreams/#comments Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:17:17 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=668 Our Kazakh host Ramille called them Gipsy Taxis: random and unauthorised people, stopping at inappropriate spots on the road, offering lifts to complete strangers hitchacking their way back home from work. On our way to the airport from Almaty city centre, that peculiar and iconic sight would be the last of Central Asia for a …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/a-head-full-of-dreams/feed/ 2 The things you leave behind – Kyrgyzstan’s undiscovered beauty https://rollingeast.com/the-things-you-leave-behind/ https://rollingeast.com/the-things-you-leave-behind/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:49:04 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=599 I didn’t know you could get so affectionate to a road. I realized it only a couple of days ago when we finally left the M41 at an anonymous junction in the small town of Kara-Balta, Kyrgyzstan. At that intersection, the same road we had been following for two months abruptly ended, right in front …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/the-things-you-leave-behind/feed/ 3 Cycling from Osh to Bishkek – A Practical Guide https://rollingeast.com/osh-to-bishkek/ https://rollingeast.com/osh-to-bishkek/#comments Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:09:06 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=536 Among the different and many ways to reach Bishkek from Osh, the most direct route is taking the M41, through Jalal-Abad and Toktogul Lake. Route Overview The first 70km out of Osh, from the North/East side of the city, are on good quality asphalt. The road is a two ways highway going through many towns …

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]]> https://rollingeast.com/osh-to-bishkek/feed/ 6 The Pamir Highway – From Murghab to Osh https://rollingeast.com/the-pamir-highway-from-murghab-to-osh/ https://rollingeast.com/the-pamir-highway-from-murghab-to-osh/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:01:49 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=405 On the day we left Murghab we set a target of about 55km, starting a slow ascent towards Akbaital Pass, the highest in the Pamir, and leave the remaining 20km for the day after. The pass itself was nowhere as tough as I had expected. There was indeed some bike pushing involved, but that was …

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