Adventure Cyclist
Scenes from the Saddle
Sixteen flats! I hope that’s a record I never break. It was my first cross-country bike trip, and twice in eastern Oregon I had emerged from my tent in the ...
EXP Series Anything Cradle, $120 We’re big fans of Salsa’s Anything Cradle (for proof, look no further than Nick Legan’s review from 2018). Simply put, there is no better functioning, ...
Kona’s adventure bike selection runs deep and wide. Floating down the middle of that mighty river is the Libre line of dropbar bikes, including the carbon dreamboat you see here, ...
You know that feeling on Christmas Eve when Santa Claus is specifically making a pit stop at your house and the quicker you close your eyes, the sooner you’ll be ...
When I was 25, I rode across Colombia and Ecuador with my then-partner Scott. We both rode cheap used bicycles with old knapsacks lashed onto the back. When it rained, ...
This story originally appeared in the December 2020/January 2021 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk. The unsettling song of chain chatter was a vibrant memory and an unwelcome ...
“Can we pull this off?” I wondered a couple of days before leaving on a week-long bike trip along the Idaho Hot Springs Mountain Bike Route. We’d been looking forward ...
There’s something so magical about riding a bike that lots of people do it just for fun. Adults hop on bikes and race each other up the road. Friends get ...
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2020 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. As I neared the top of Chilkat Pass, everything vanished — swallowed by a dense fog. When ...
We punched out early on Friday afternoon and departed our home in Seattle on electric bikes, eager to escape our COVID lockdown for a weekend getaway to celebrate our wedding ...
