Practical advice based on long distance touring on crappy old bikes. What bike, what to wear, what to take, how to travel cheap. How not to be a target. How to be self-sufficient and confident thousands of miles from home and alone. You’re a rider. Don’t follow or think like the crowd. Big adventure bikes say you have money with expensive stuff in the luggage, and are impossible to get up right on loose dirt roads or out of a ditch with a twisted ankle. Yukon, Mexico, Sahara, across North America, Europe, Ukraine, Silopi, war zones…