I’m hanging out in Creel for a few days, a small mountain town set in the Sierra Tarahumara, the main hub for exploring the Mexico’s Copper Canyon – Barranca del Cobre – the world’s deepest canyon system. Every which way you turn, it’s …
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Over the course of this journey I’ve ridden two bikes: a Santos Travel Master Cromo 2.6 and a Thorn Sterling. Both are 26in, mountain bike-style tourers, which is generally the best way to go for riding south of the US, …
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Distance – 240km
Road conditions – good quality pavement, pretty light on traffic until near Creel
F00d – plenty of little shops abundant with fresh avocados and nachos
Cheap digs – not so much camping …
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Madera is en route to my next main stop, Creel, the hangout for exploring North Mexico’s fabled Copper Canyon – Baranca del Cobre. Keen to avoid the behemoth 18 wheelers that hog Mexico´s main roads , we´ve been doing our …
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We´ve arrived in Nuevas Casa Grandes, in the Chihuahua state of Mexico (and yes, I’ve already seen my first Chihauhua pooch, tiny it was too). I’m travelling with the rest of the ‘dirt bag chaingang’ – Jeff, Jason and Anna – …
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So, just 120 miles to go to the end of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route… Seeing as Jeff and Anna had ridden on ahead the day before (while I faffed around at the post office), I had a little …
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Silver City is my last stop before Mexico. And it’s proved to be something of a find: alternative, liberal-minded, quirky and very bike friendly. To those familiar with Wales, it’s like Machynlleth in the desert (so without the rain). Yet …
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One last storm. Or so I hope.
The ride from Pie Town to Silver City, just 120 miles from the Mexican border, proved to be a little more challenging than we were expecting. The gauntlet was thrown down one last …
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Bike tourers like to daydream. After all, those long, open roads furnish a lot of thinking times. Life thoughts to be processed, aspirations to be shared, views to be aired. So after the Night of the Fire Vigil, Jeff, Jason …
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At last! I’m back on the Great Divide Mountain Bike ride, having deviated off route after hitting a few massive storms, like this one and this one. I’m also now riding with brothers Jeff and Jason, who I …
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