Biking Iceland

Good news from the icelandic interior: only a few highlandroads are still closed to traffic. It is not possible to travers in the northern part of the sprenigsandur-routes, around Askja and on the jeeptracks north of Mýrdalsjökull.

The english version of bikingiceland.com is still beta. We are glade that is still going on. So the first route is online. We start with the trip from Keflavik-Airport to Reykjavik (Route 1). Welcome everybody who was not able to read the description in german. 

First it was a tourist play, however, with the increase of the volcano activities in the Eyjafjallajökull the Iceland cyclist also asks himself whether one can travel in this summer certainly through Iceland. The unequivocal answer is: Yes, but! Since it cannot be excluded that certain roads also remain closed during the summer. Against differently announcements the ring road was already fully practicable after few days. We have gathered some infos and photos from the region.

Derzeit bekomme ich zahlreiche Anfragen, ob es die Informationen auf BikingIceland.com auch als pdf oder Druckausgabe gibt. Der Grund ist unter anderem auch ein Artikel in der Ausgabe 2/2010 der Zeitschrift "Tours". In diesem Artikel (in dem es einige inhaltliche Fehler gibt - siehe Ausführungen weiter unten)  wird über eine Radtour durch Island berichtet, insbesondere auf dem Kjölur (auch Kjalvegur genannt). Freundlicherweise wird im Infoteil auf mein Buch "Island per Rad" aus dem Kettler-Verlag hingewiesen. (und leider nicht auf die Seite bikingiceland.com). Die gute Nachricht: Anscheinend wird die "Tours" gelesen. Die schlechte Nachricht:

As you see, the english translation of all descriptions, of all routes and chapters is in progress.  We work on it, to translate all sites. The german book "Island per Rad" ("iceland by bike") was the only guide for cyclist for the last 15 years about biking around Iceland. It will be no longer published. Be happy if you find an used-one. I´m planing to publish an english version - at first as an e-book with the title "Biking Iceland" this autumn.

BikingIceland.com is the new online bicycle guide for Iceland. For 23 years I, Ulf Hoffmann, travel to Iceland, always by bicycle and quite early with the aim to write from a guide for bikers. However, between the first trip 1988 and the first book I have spent several summers in Iceland. All together it took seven years between my first visit and the appearance of the bicycle guide. The first printed edition of "Iceland by wheel" appeared in 1995, then the second one strongly enlarged edition followed in 2001.

Now this issue is sold out for some time. An other edition was planned by the publisher first for 2008 and then for 2009. The researchwork and the manuscript were concluded, however, it came to different opinions about the future direction of a guidebook for the year 2010, so that I had discontinued the contract.
Therefore, the third edition appears (first) "only" on the Internet and directly the fourth edition is in work and will published at first as an e-book as well as a hardcover in 2010. In addition, it is planned to translate the complete contents as soon as possible into English. Up to now, there is only a small english version. Sorry for the inconvience!