“The times, they are a-changing…” – Bob Dylan I first visited Seoul, South Korea’s capital, 41 years ago. It was an unplanned stop-over. At the time I had no specific desire to visit Korea  but I had purchased the cheapest multi-stop ticket (remember those) to Australia that I could find and that turned out to be with Korean Airlines. One condition was that it required you to stay over in Seoul for 3 nights, although the airline would also cover the 3 nights in a hotel. I arrived just after the Soviet Union had shot down KAL007 so my plane was pretty empty as we were following the ..read more

  Orson Welles, Peter O’Toole, Russel Crowe and Harrison Ford. What do they have in common with the participants of the 2024 Morocco: Kingdom of the West Cycling Tour? I imagine most of you have absolutely no idea. A glorious few days of cycling took us from the towering sand dunes of Merzouga, through Alnif, a town where you could pick up an infinite number of trilobites scraped from the ancient canyon walls around town, to a couple of wonderful, or should I say stunning, gorges – Todra and Dades. The route connecting these sights, described by one cyclist as an epic ride, was a result ..read more

  Benjamin Levin is the Content Creator on the 2024 Tour d’Afrique Cycling Expedition. As the tour approaches the finish line in Cape Town, he considers what the riders will take away with them from their incredible journey. On the Tour d’Afrique we have visited long dead pharaohs in Egypt, walked with mountain gorillas in the dense jungles of Rwanda, watched the great wildebeest migration in Tanzania and cycled with elephants in Botswana. Now, as we approach the end of the tour, hammering through the gravel (and occasional tarmac) on our way through Namibia into South Africa, we find ou ..read more

  Road of Empires. This extraordinary cycling tour is most certainly that. Along the route cyclists will see the signs of distant empires come and gone, in the incredible ruins left on remote mountains and beautiful Mediterranean shores, but also in the present-day language, culture, cuisine, architectural styles, religion and local politics. The history of civilizations along the Road of Empires are highly interconnected and cyclists will come away with a feeling of wonder at how these past Empires have together left their marks, both for better and worse, upon the thriving societies of ..read more

  “The TDA team completely exceeded my expectations. The route was stunning, challenging, and fun!“ We have run the Trans-Europa Cycling Expedition, the longest supported cycling tour in Europe, 6 times since 2012 – 3 times from St Petersburg to Lisbon, once from Helsinki to Lisbon (Thank you Mr Putin), once from Ljubljana to Gibraltar (Thank you COVID) and in 2023 from Tallinn to Gibraltar. In 2025, inshallah, we will meet up again in Tallinn for the journey across 11 European countries. Over the years, there have been a number of great blogs from the tour, designed to give you an idea ..read more

  “Some days the mileage seems really tough…you just get one pedal stroke in at a time, you just kinda roll with it. It’s all part of the experience. It makes you a better person I think.” – Lloyd Strong on the 2019 North American Epic We pride ourselves on creating very ambitious and challenging tours that are not meant for professional athletes but, instead, for regular people like you and me. Our cyclists come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are fast, some are slow. Some are older, some are young. Some are world travellers, some are not. Here are some thoughtful and inspiring word ..read more

  Sime Baricevic, our Content Creator on the 2022 North American Epic Cycling Expedition, has had some time to reflect on his assignment and to create a longer form video about his experiences in the far north of Canada. As both the filmmaker and the narrator, Sime examines this unique landscape, its people and the cyclists who took part. His 2-part, 34 min video can be found at the end of this blog. Even though having TDA Global Cycling as an employer puts you in a very adventurous, laid-back environment, there are still rules that exist and structures that need to be followed. With all ..read more

  “Looking at the world Through the sunset in your eyes Trying to make the train Through clear Moroccan skies” – Crosby, Stills and Nash As I was entering the outskirts of Casablanca on the way to the start of the Morocco: Kingdom of the West Cycling Tour, all I could think of was Humphrey Bogart at the end of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, saying “Play it again, Sam.” Another TDA adventure was about to begin. I had been to Casablanca once before for the start of the 2018 West Africa on Vélo Cycling Expedition so it was strange that “Play it again Sam” had suddenly emerged in my head ..read more

  Yanez Novoa is a long time TDA staffer who was helping out on the 2024 Tour d’Afrique Expedition in Rwanda & Uganda. What do you get if you mix 50 strangers and several tons of steel, food supplies and bikes together? Something like a TDA expedition. And what is a TDA expedition really? I have heard it being described in many ways: a forced march, a circus, a family. What it is, is big and noisy with lots of sharp and shiny bits; it is high vis-vests and flashing bike lights, chain lube and back up derailers. Add up all these miscellaneous parts and you end up with a TDA tour. In t ..read more

  Benjamin Levin is the Content Creator on the 2024 Tour d’Afrique Cycling Expedition. He reports on the recent TDA Foundation bicycle donation that took place in Livingstone, Zambia. Why do we ride bikes? On a TDA tour we ride bikes for an adventure, for the experience of cycling in a place you never have before – we bike for fun. In Africa, and many places around the globe, people bike for a different reason. They bike because school can be up to 30 kilometres away and elephants have prevented them from leaving on time. They bike because it is the only way that they can carry their goo ..read more