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At twenty-one, with no prior cycling experience, Laura packed up her camping gear and biked solo around Iceland. Since then she's biked across Colombia and Ecuador, around Costa Rica, and across eastern and western Canada and the US. She loves campfires, open roads, and the feeling of disappearing into the wind. Laura's stories have appeared in Bicycling Magazine, Outdoor Research, Communities Magazine, Permaculture Design Magazine, the Tico Times, and more. She is a frequent contributor to Adventure Cyclist Online and its newsletters.
When she's not biking or hiking, Laura lives in a tiny house in Massachusetts with a small family of sock puppets. You can connect with her on her website or Instagram at @laurakillingbeck.
In 2018, 38-year-old Scottish cyclist Jenny Graham broke the women’s world record for cycling around the world. In just 124 days she pedaled 18,000 miles across four continents, through wind, ...
May 1st, 2023
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This year I decided to escape the Massachusetts winter by cycling south from San Francisco on the Pacific Coast Bike Route. I went slowly, stopped frequently to look for sea ...
Apr 10th, 2023
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Every time the Adventure Cycling catalog arrives at my house, I sit down, flip it open to the centerfold, and stare. It’s a map of the United States, laced with ...
Crested Butte and Gunnison, Colorado, have long been known as hotspots for mountain bikers and singletrack. But this region is also home to another, lesser-known treasure: a huge web of ...
Most of my first experiences riding gravel were accidental. The routes that I thought were paved dissolved into dirt, and I just kept pedaling. When I cycled from Alaska to ...
There are people in this world who change the way you think about everything, and Kaisa Leka is one of them. I first met Kaisa in a Zoom interview for ...
Life can be chaotic at best, and in the midst of that chaos, you still have to find your way. Sometimes all you can do is embrace the chaos and ...
This interview has been edited for clarity. Lael Wilcox is one of the world’s best endurance cyclists. She won the Trans Am Bike Race in 2016, set the Tour Divide’s ...
“Aren’t you afraid to bike alone, as a woman?” I probably get asked this question, in some form, every week. When I’m traveling alone, I sometimes get asked every day ...
I have always gone to nature to heal. It’s instinct. Nature is acceptance. Balance. Beauty. When I cycle long distances in wild places, I feel boundless joy. I become a ...
