ThePedalists
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Cycling tours,
built by
the people who
ride them.

A network of seven destinations under one umbrella. Each one run by riders who actually live there.

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01. Upcoming departures, the 2026 season.
11 upcoming Tour 01 of 11
· Welcome

We started in Taipei in 2018, running one tour very well. Now we're seven, in seven countries.
Still small, still riding the routes ourselves, still answering our own emails.

02 The network

Seven destinations,
one team.

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TaiwanBOOKING NOWJapanCOMING 2026Sri LankaCOMING 2026SicilyCOMING 2026BalkansIN DESIGNArmeniaIN DESIGNSouth KoreaIN DESIGN
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The Pedalists · Network · 2026
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7.
countries across Asia and Europe, each run by riders who live there
80d
total days of riding if you did every route, end to end
5,460km
of road across the network, each one ridden by us first
62.3km
total climbing, seven times up Mt Fuji
Coastal viewpoint, Taiwan east coast
· Field journal

"We don't
'cover' a country.
We ride one route,
until we know it."

A short essay on why our tours are deliberately small, deliberately slow, and deliberately not packaged.

7
destinations live or in design
1,400+
riders since 2018
98%
say they'd come back
18
guides across the network
04 Who we are

You'll know our
first names by day two.

We're four people running seven destinations. We answer our own emails, lead our own rides, and pick you up from your hotel ourselves. The website's just where we say hello.

The Pedalists team — Mei, Rob, Hiro and Tom
Mei
Sri Lanka · Ops
Hiro
Japan · Lead guide
Tom
Sicily · Lead guide
05 Our method

Three things we
refuse to compromise.

01

We ride first.

Every route is ridden, properly, before it's sold. We test the road, the food, the bed, the weather window. If we wouldn't go back, we don't open it up.

02

We stay small.

8 to 12 riders per departure. One lead, one sweep, one van. You're not a row on a spreadsheet, you're someone we ate dinner with last night.

03

We pick up.

The number on the website is a phone. The inbox on the website is an inbox we read. Real people, same time zone as the road you're about to ride.

Rob Wainwright
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Arrange a call
with Rob.

Chat with Rob about Taiwan's east coast, what's launching next across the network, or a private tour. No forms, no funnels, just a 20-minute call to work out if we're a fit.

06 Alumni

What riders
tell us, after.

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"I would not think twice about organising another tour with him. Thank you Rob for an unbelievable and life-changing experience."
Stephen O · 7-Day KOM Tour · 2024
"Sixteen days of cycling around Taiwan was a pure bliss. The hardware was perfect, the crew was a family."
Matus P · 16-Day Full Island · 2025
"Fantastic value, great routes, helpful support from the team day and night."
Aaron C · 7-Day KOM Tour · 2025

Slow letters,
monthly.

One email a month. Where we've been riding, what's launching next, the occasional photo essay. No marketing.