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Mike and Jorge – Scouting Report from Costa Rica
La Fortuna – one of our first planned stops on the Doomsday Ride. Last month we announced our latest tour happening in Central America to celebrate to the end of the world. Since this announcement, and...
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Impressions of Nicaragua
Our two-man scouting team for this fall’s Doomsday Ride are now in country #3, Honduras and at the end of what will be the “Rainforest Recce” section of the tour. Before departing country #2 yesterday,...
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Somoza Stones
Our scout team in Central America is currently in Guatemala. A few days ago Michael wrote this piece on some of the legacy left in Nicaragua from the Somoza dynasty who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 –...
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Happy in Honduras
Our scouting team in Central America has arrived in Belize, and are spending a few days compiling their notes and photos before returning to Toronto. They have already sent us some updates from Costa...
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Guatemala [PHOTO ESSAY]
Mike Coo and Cristiano Werneck are in the air headed back to Canada after a successful scouting trip of our 5-week, 5-country Doomsday Ride in Central America. After short impressions of Costa Rica,...
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Doomsday Scouting Report
The Doomsday Ride scout is over. And what an experience it was… Surprisingly, the ride is downhill, overall. You actually drop over 1000m from San Jose, Costa Rica to Belize City, Belize. There is...
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Toronto Information Night – The Doomsday Ride
Join us in downtown Toronto and discover everything you wanted to know about the Doomsday Ride Bicycle Expedition from San Jose, Costa Rica to Belize City, Belize that takes place this...
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No turning back – San Jose to Aguas Zarcas
Our first day of riding gave us a spectacular taste of what lies ahead. We started out at 7am from San José under an overcast sky with delicately dripping clouds. Riding a convoy out of a busy city...
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Day 2 & 3 – Arguas Zarcas to paradise…
That was a lot easier. After a rather dramatic first day, the second was a piece of cake – sort of. The first 60km came with a lot of level roads and temperate conditions. Then, just a few very...
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Many Rivers to Cross
Costa Rica has two seasons: Rainy and dry. We are clearly still at the back end of the rainy season. We had to cross a river to get across the great lake Arenal and we really had to do this otherwise...
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Adios Costa Rica – Hello Nicaragua
This was a good day. All we had to conquer were 20km of ass pounding gravel road followed by gorgeous downhills which made our bikes fly. In retrospect the 20km of gravel ‘road’ is an insult to...
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Buenos Dias Nicaragua! Guapo!
Mechanic Luke tames a Nicaraguan bull We barely scraped the surface of Costa Rica during the last few days of cycling and then it was time to say goodbye. Linda, our mouse whisperer, drily noted as we...
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A Typical Day on the Doomsday Ride; Granada to Boaco 107km
840m up 550m down – but it felt like a lot more. This neat little graph by Eric Beurton demonstrates the incline that we had to endure after lunch. We had three river crossings but none as challenging...
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Condego to Yuscarán: a cycling journey through local culture.
We left behind the charming Francesco at Hospendaje Framan – the name is a fusion of Francesco and Marina (his departed wife), who was a keen painter. The accommodation at Framan may be described as...
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“Brutaful” Ride
The last few days from Valle de Angeles to Copán Ruinas has been sheer brutal beauty – coined as brutaful – by Anna, one of our cyclists. It is difficult to explain the enormity of what we have...
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White Weddings
Sometimes it is ok to climb through tiny windows in foreign countries. The hotel in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala, where our Doomsday family is staying tonight, is a vast stretch of land with a hotel,...
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The longest short ride
Our ride from San Jose to Pinula was with a police escort. It is a dirty, busy trial through the city. A lot of the riders such as Ruut, and Gavin Creig, are back on their bikes for the first time...
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Rest Day in Panajachel, Guatemala
Our rest day is next to the beautiful Lake Atitlán, in Panajachel. Some of us go on boat trips, we all visit the winding little markets and buy too much stuff. But mostly we clean our bikes and chill...
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The Toughest Day
The cycle to Santa Anna Verapaz was tough but utterly beautiful. David Jones fell three times and miraculously came off with only a scrape. Many cyclists hitched a ride with the van up to the top....
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Rider Profile – Bill Talbot
Bill always has a big smile on his face and I have yet to hear him complain. He started the first few days of the Doomsday Ride going really slow and then…zing!… by day 4 or 5 he connected with the...
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