Bike trip tips: Planning is half the fun

The trip may have lasted a week, but the preparation provided a winter's worth of entertainment: studying maps, plotting routes, buying equipment, reading biking blogs, and preparing certain muscles to sit for hours on narrow, unforgiving saddles.

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