Adventure Cyclist
Scenes from the Saddle
Three friends set out for an early July five-day, off-road ride in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country. They wanted to keep their loads light to make for a pleasant, nimbler ride during ...
Many people consider the mountain bike to be humanity’s greatest adventure vehicle. They allow you to escape the confines of pavement, the roar of traffic, and the increasingly motorized din ...
On Day Four of my bicycle adventure, near the summit of a 6,000-foot climb in Mexico, I saw my first migrating monarch. She chased pockets of evening sun as clouds ...
Well, I did it. I managed to string together nearly 25 days of riding along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route and get myself from Banff to Antelope Wells. It ...
While preparing for a tour in southern Oregon, I realized I had to make some changes to my beloved gravel steed. Like many bikes in the gravel/adventure/all-road/whatever category, my Salsa ...
You don’t get much sympathy from your riding buddies when you complain, “I have to ride another review bike,” and you’re pedaling some shiny new bit of steel. It’s true ...
We used to sit around and think about audacious things to do. We found an old atlas and wrote things that hadn’t been done — it was a fun way ...
The May 2018 issue of Adventure Cyclist features staffer Dan Meyer’s take on the new Trek 1120, a purpose-built bikepacking rig with custom racks and immense 29 x 3.0in. tires. ...
(Optional musical accompaniment to this review.) You might be surprised to learn that the song “Susie Q,” from Creedence Clearwater Revival’s debut album, was not written by John Fogerty. It ...
The bike industry’s explosive fat bike sales may have slipped, but a quick glance around the winter trail systems of midwestern cities and mountain towns in the Rockies will reveal ...