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Panniers & Peanut Butter - The Ultimate Gear Guide
By Laura | September 20, 2010
After nearly 14 months of traveling the US on bicycles, we have finally put together a comprehensive guide to all of our gear, with great photos from the last year, and road-tested tips that we’ve discovered along the way (how to find electricity on the road, the virtues of the tortilla, etc.,) Today, it is available to the world!
We’re really excited to release Panniers & Peanut Butter and we hope that it makes bike touring more accessible and inspires you to put together your own touring gear, finagle the time, and hit the road!
Panniers & Peanut Butter is 75 pages long and goes way beyond a simple list of our stuff, or even a technical look at the pros and cons of different items. It’s chock-full of photos, tips, stories, lessons - and probably everything you could want to know about all of our gear.
Details:
Panniers & Peanut Butter is a downloadable ebook. You will receive a file in a PDF format, which should be readable on any computer, iPod/iPhone/iPad, and Nook.
Price per ebook is $20. (Payment is through Paypal, which also accepts all major credit cards.)
Upon purchase, you will be directed to a link, from which you’ll be able to download the file.
To purchase, just hit this button:
Thank you to all of our readers, followers, supporters and friends around the US and beyond! You have inspired us to keep traveling and exploring and inspiring others to get on their bikes as well. See you on the road!
Topics: Gear |
September 20th, 2010 at 5:52 am
cant wait to read this
September 20th, 2010 at 6:52 am
Purchased and downloaded! Looking forward to it…
Happy Trails,
D
September 20th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
[...] Russ and Laura have published their first eBook from the road. Subtitled The Path Less Pedaled Bike Camping Guide, it’s full of tried and tested essentials for bike touring. Get your copy here. [...]
September 20th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
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September 21st, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Really enjoying this book. Thank you.
For the curious, I downloaded this book to my Nook eReader. The formatting leaves a lot to be desired, but it *is* readable.
September 21st, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Thanks Ethan. We’ve been wondering what it looks like on other readers. It’s horribly difficult and unattractive for us to convert the ebook to the proprietary file formats used by the Nook and Kindle (et al), so we’ve been hoping that it would come through okay in PDF format.
September 21st, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Sorry I won’t be able to read this book since I have an old, very slow laptop. Just release it on paper for crying out loud. Maybe we’re behind the curve but I’m sure we’re not the only ones.
September 21st, 2010 at 8:33 pm
It is a nice bike tour practical tutorial book. Love it and as always very well written.
I was just wondering look at Russ’ bike. It said Russ using XTR crankset with 12-36T sprocket, while the picture of bike said differently, it seems you use Roadbike crankset instead of mountainbike crankset.
September 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Willy,
It’s a a NOS XT mountain crankset purchased from a bike shop. They had some old late 80s/early 90s stock. Back then the cranks were silver and didn’t have that mountain-ish look they do have now!
R
September 23rd, 2010 at 5:38 am
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September 24th, 2010 at 6:42 am
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September 24th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
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September 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Konrad - Thanks for your comment - We haven’t yet decided whether we’ll release the gear guide in a printed version, mainly because the overhead cost of doing so makes it rather cost-prohibitive for us and likely will require that the purchase price be higher - Feel free to purchase the e-version and print out a copy to read that way.
September 28th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Overhead cost? Just port your text and photos to a Blurb or other print-on-demand service. Add your fee to their minimum cost and that’s what the book costs. $20 for the eBook, $50 for the dead tree version (or whatever). People buying it will understand that it is funding your continued journey.
I’ll be able to browse the paper version years from now, the ebook will be either unreadable or just lost in the shuffle of computers.
October 5th, 2010 at 6:33 am
Print is dead.
October 8th, 2010 at 4:13 am
Just thought I’d let you know that I am reading the book on my iPad. It looks great and functions perfectly on the iPad. Cheers!
November 1st, 2010 at 5:04 am
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July 24th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Once I earlier made a comment in http://pathlesspedaled.com/?p=1855 I clicked the - Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now every time a new comment is included on Panniers & Peanut Butter - The Ultimate Gear Guide | The Path Less Pedaled web site, I get a set of emails with all the similar remark. Is there any way it’s possible to remove me from that system? Thanks!
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November 19th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Just bought the ebook! Russ, you are such an entertaining writer. I have enjoyed reading your blog and I can tell already that I will love the book. I also think it will be very useful as I plan my tour with my wife to Canada.
November 20th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Totally inspired! Awesome book.
I added it to the Goodreads library for ya.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13087272-peanut-butter-panniers
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