The Accidental Bicycle Tourist

Gabriel Aldaz

Host Gabriel Aldaz sits down with other bicycle touring and bikepacking enthusiasts to have unexpected, revealing, and often humorous conversations about their most memorable bike touring adventures. You’ll hear individuals, friends, partners, and families from all walks of life share the joys (and sometimes challenges) of bicycle touring. A willingness to explore the unknown, overcoming self-doubt, resilience, and experiencing acts of kindness from complete strangers are recurring themes. Gabriel hopes that the episodes, dropping every other week, will inspire you to get out and see where the road leads you. For links to podcast platforms, feedback via email, the podc...

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The Accidental Bicycle Tourist

Episodes (61)

Saturday ABT061. The Original Bikepackers and the Improbable Bikecentennial (Part 1)
Jun 19th ABT060. Whole Lotta Plov: Lessons in Global Kindness
May 29th ABT059. Freewheeling Spirit

The Accidental Bicycle Tourist

Jul 4, 2026
2½ hours
65 MB

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bikecentennial ’76, this two-part series tells the extraordinary story of four bicycle pioneers – Greg and June Siple, Dan and Lys Burden – who took a circuitous path from a shared dream to successfully staging a massive bicentennial event. Ultimately, more than 4,000 cyclists would ride their newly hand-mapped, 4,200-mile Transamerica Bicycle Trail. Before Bikecentennial, the four were active members of the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of the American Youth Hostels. It was during these early years that Greg Siple and his father founded the Tour of the Scioto River Valley (TOSRV), an event that eventually grew to attrac...

The Accidental Bicycle Tourist

ABT061. The Original Bikepackers and the Improbable Bikecentennial (Part 1)

Gabriel Aldaz

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