By Dan Meyer  Gravel bikes look like great touring options except for one crucial deal-breaker: they’re geared way too high. We look at options to add some low end to otherwise potentially perfect bikes.

By Nathan Ward Salida, Colorado’s Oveja Negra bikepacking bags come with a serving of grit and ghosts. 

By Alex Strickland  Trek revamps the venerable 520 with discs and brifters, but does the longest-running bike in the brand's history carry on its old-school tradition?

By Nick Legan  A different kind of bikepacking adventure

By Nick Legan and Alex Strickland  A pair of reflector solutions, possibly the only straight-steerer carbon touring fork, bags small and large, and more. 

By Adventure Cyclist Staff  A glimpse behind the curtain at what our testers think makes the best bike.

By Alex Strickland  A full-size folder could provide the best of both worlds, or it could be a reverse-Goldilocks where nothing is just right. 

By Nick Legan  A suspension seatpost, radical saddle, and balm? This edition has a cure for what ails ya', plus a GPS recommendation and the lightest loft.

By David V. Herlihy  Before he served in WWII and lived a quiet life in a small town, unassuming Canadian Douglas Carr had the adventure of a lifetime in 1938— riding from Cairo to Cape Town.

By Bob Bergland  Former New Mexico governor and presidential candidate Gary Johnson returns to the Tour Divide for another race down the Great Divide.

By Dan Meyer, Alex Strickland, and Anna Bahnson  Brace yourself for a bikepacking blowout. Not into dirt? Don't write this gear off, it could revolutionize your road tour.

We could only print the winners in our June issue, but we had to share these incredible images of bicycle travel as seen through the lenses of those out living the dream!

By Alex Strickland  Ten years before the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, Wyoming brothers Mike and Dan Moe pioneered an epic ride along the Rockies.