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Called “a specialist in long-distance trips” by the New York Times and “[one] of the world’s leading adventure travel operators” by Forbes, TDA Global Cycling has been creating cycling adventures all over the world for any adventurous traveler willing to take on the challenge. We operate cycle tours in over 80 countries, on 6 continents – from Hungary to Honduras, Italy to Iran, Tanzania to Taiwan and much more. Our vehicle and staff supported adventures give the cyclists freedom to explore at their pace with a framework of support to keep them on track and safe.
>>Read here 10 things that make TDA Global Cycling unique from other bike tour companies
We first became known for our annual event from Cairo to Cape Town – the Tour d’Afrique which since 2003 has become a classic route and recently featured in Lonely Planet’s Epic Bike Rides of the World book.
The North American Epic and South American Epic are the world’s longest supported cycling tours – each at 5.5 months and over 13,500 km in length. Our growing list of grand cycling adventures crossing Europe and South East Asia allows cycle tourists to dream bigger and aim a little higher in their cycle touring goals with trips crossing countries and continents in emerging and offbeat cycle touring destinations. We were voted the Best Adventure Travel Company in 2015 by the travel editors at the Independent newspaper in the UK.
TDA Global Cycling media contact
Shanny Hill, TDA Global Cycling
[email protected]
+1 416 364 8255
TDA Global Cycling has high quality photography from all of our tours. The company founder and other staff are available to comment on current events, or to answers questions related to our tours. We have hosted high level journalists on our tours in the past who are willing and able to cycle alongside the other participants.
We have a very active blog that covers a wide array of cycling topics. We have a growing collection of cycle touring videos on our YouTube channel and post many times a day to our Facebook page. We are also on Instagram.
Recent Media Coverage
Alvento Italian Cycling Magazine
#42 December 2025
How much we want to live
“An experience so profound it could fill the pages of a book”
February & March 2026
Cycling the Silk Road at 70
“A late-to cycling septuagenarian finds out just what he’s capable of on the bike. His tale shows the fitness heights you could reach in the eighth decade of life.”
October & November 2025
Gaining Elevation from Nagasaki to Tokyo
“As I tucked into that post-ride beer and a warming bowl of hoto hot pot, the skies cleared, freeing Fuji’s snow-capped summit from its cloudy crown.”
December 30 2021
“TDA Global Cycling started off staging the Cairo-Cape Town Tour d’Afrique but now runs long-distance trips worldwide.”
October/November 2021
““My friends said, ‘Henry, you’ve flipped. How are you taking people across Africa? It’s a war zone. There’s no infrastructure. The only transportation is convoys. It’s horrendous roads for days. How are you doing this?’ People thought I was insane,” said Gold.”
August 12, 2021
“I couldn’t justify a two-week safari,” said Ms. Hetrick, who instead plans to spend several months biking in Africa beginning in 2022 with TDA Global Cycling. In addition to amortizing her carbon footprint and seeing a place in depth, the long trip offers connection. “When you’re on a bicycle, you are accessible to people,” she said.
January 21, 2021
“For many, 2020 was a lost year in travel. For those with travel goals post-retirement, the urge to seize the day has gained urgency.
‘If you’re my age, you want to go on these trips because you don’t know how long you’ll be able to do them,’ said Brad”
January 4, 2021
“Have bikes, will travel? Hill thinks so. ‘The pandemic was a wake-up call — you can’t put off big life events and goals. People are already signing up for the Silk Route or the South American Epic and other long-distance expeditions years in advance.'”
January 2021
“I never planned to cycle the world, not even one country tip to tip…Don’t get me wrong. I liked cycling and had ridden a bike since I was a kid.”
February, 2020
“TOUR D’AFRIQUE
GRENZERFAHRUNG AUF ZWEI RÄDERN
11.000 Kilometer auf dem Fahrrad durch ganz Afrika sind eine Tour mit Schmerzgarantie. Das Gute: Man lernt sich dabei völlig neu kennen.”
From the Archives
January 28, 2019
“TDA runs 16 tours on six continents, one of a handful of operators offering multiple-country odysseys.”
November 13, 2017
“Some consider retirement to be synonymous with relaxation, but Shirley Frye and her husband, Dan, had something more adventurous in mind.”
July, 2015
“Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: All that suffering allows for a level of immersion that other trips can’t offer. When it’s really tough, you go beyond what you believed you could do.”
February, 2015
“And then the tour is over. You go home, you eat a lot, and once you’re rested, it’s hard not to sign up for another.”
October, 2004
“To the Canadian organizer of the first Tour d’Afrique, cycling 11,000 kilometres from Cairo to Cape Town seemed like a good idea at the time. And after the lava fields, the bandit territory, the stone-throwing kids and the tire-swallowing sand, it seemed like an even better idea.”
October 9, 2003
“I’ve done something these tops cyclists have yet to attempt” by Henry Gold
June 8, 2002
“Cyclists test their mettle in a 120-day race from Cairo to Cape Town.”
10: Celebrating Ten Years of the Tour d’Afrique Bicycle Race and Expedition
A hardcover book celebrating the first ten years of the Tour d’Afrique. A powerful photographic journey of the gutsy men and women who have pedaled across Africa on the planet’s most exceptional bicycle adventure. Since 2003, riders and crew of the Tour d’Afrique have captured their intensely personal experiences as seen from the saddle of a bike; most of the time anyway. Edited by David Houghton, with foreword by Tony Wheeler (Co-Founder, Lonely Planet). Click here to read the book.
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