U.S. Built Custom Bicycles in Titanium and Titanium-Carbon Mix
U.S. Built Custom Bicycles in Titanium and Titanium-Carbon Mix
By Kate Harris This is the third in a series of articles documenting Cycling Silk, A year-long research expedition across Asia. In the world of strict plans and fixed agendas, detours are just distractions. But on the Cycling Silk expedition, detours often prove the destination – and not just because we frequently get lost. So … Continue reading “Cycling Silk: Explaining Borders to the Birds”
In the world of strict plans and fixed agendas, detours are just distractions. But on the Cycling Silk expedition, detours often prove the destination – and not just because we frequently get lost. So when KuzeyDoga, an award-winning Turkish NGO, invited us to explore their biodiversity conservation projects in the borderlands of eastern Turkey – wooing … Continue reading “Cycling Silk Blog: Explaining Borders to the Birds”
This is the third in a series of articles documenting Cycling Silk, A year-long research expedition across Asia. There are places you can get to by road, and there are places you can only get to by being on the road, a state of mind you can carry, with concerted effort, to almost any context. … Continue reading “Cycling Silk Blog: What is Wasteland, What is Wilderness”
This is the second in a series of articles documenting Cycling Silk, A year-long research expedition across Asia. Turkey, at least the thin strip of the country we’ve been biking, is made like its tea only served cold: steep, intensely dark and concentrated, with a lot of water poured on top. The Turkish adventure began … Continue reading “Cycling Silk:
The Borderland Between Freeze and Thaw in Turkey”
We are lucky. We know it. All day, every day, we work with people on bikes they will do amazing things with, and sometimes, as we found out recently, they’ll even write books about those things. Longtime followers of this 7 will possibly remember the Cycling Silk Project, undertaken by Kate Harris and Melissa Yule … Continue reading “Lands of Lost Borders – A Journey on the Silk Road”