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Jerry Hughes is a veteran cyclist, leads Adventure Cycling guided tours, and discusses his recent eBike purchase.
Sweet potato pie and sweet deals at Cyclosource will help you and yours ring in this holiday season!
Follow along as Keenan DesPlanques and friends, young adventurers new to bike travel, ride from Bergen, Norway to Barcelona, Spain.
Can words describe how excited I am about the Portland Design Works Lucky Cat Cage? They sure can, and you’re about to read them.
Let guest blogger Karl Schlinger show you what to expect when you ride in China.
With our December/January issue off to the printer, it's time to call curtains on Volume 44 of Adventure Cyclist. Here are the editor's favorites from 2017 — what were yours?
Meet the winners of Adventure Cycling’s Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park Day sweepstakes prizes.
We are excited to announce new U.S. Bicycle Route designations! Learn more about the continued growth and improvements to the U.S Bicycle Route System.
When you join Adventure Cycling, we’ll send you our Adventure Cyclist magazine. Our magazine is consistently polled as one of the major reasons our 53,000 members join Adventure Cycling, and we think you’ll love it too.
Mandy is looking forward to the annual Coffeeneuring Challenge. What might that be, you ask? Read more to find out!
Promo code MS-517 gets you 10% off your next purchase, October 13–16, 2017! (See details.) Let AdventureCycling’s online Cyclosource store help you gear up. All proceeds support our nonprofit mission to inspire and empower people to travel by bicycle.
Seriously. Let’s get to the bottom of this! What is that little round nut for?
Meet Randy Cronk. He’s traveled to over 86 countries and introduced hundreds to the joy of bike travel.
Over 9,000 people participated in more than 1,100 rides during the second annual Bike Your Park Day on September 30. One of those stand-out rides was led by Ridgeland, Mississippi Mayor Gene McGee on the historic Natchez Trace Parkway with almost 100 cyclists in tow.
This family spent an adventurous week on the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes in Idaho.
If you love Adventure Cyclist magazine as much as we do, here’s your chance to share it with a friend. Even better, send a friend or family member a free issue and get your name in a drawing to win a bike from Advocate Cycles!
And because Adventure Cycling had generously decided to offer a tour for young adults at cost on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, the trip proved to be as affordable as, if not more affordable than, it would have been to ride across the country on my own.
This visiting Montana adrenaline junkie wondered what Arkansas could possibly offer. Then he wondered if this could be the home of Adventure Cycling’s next off-pavement route.
Riding the Southern Tier Bicycle Route this fall or winter? Use Adventure Cycling’s newly released Southern Tier map app to help you navigate, find out which way the wind blows, and travel through hurricane damaged areas.
Please take a few minutes to fill out our bike advocacy survey. We want to hear from you about challenges you’ve run into on the road and improvements you’d like Adventure Cycling to work towards in the next five years.
Share your Bike Your Park Day photos and videos with Adventure Cycling through our online submission form and tag them with #bikeyourpark on social media. Enjoy your ride on September 30!
Since October 2009, Willie Weir has posted to his Sights and Sounds blog 254 times. That’s a lot of blogging and Willie has decided to step back for a bit. Willie, we’ve loved riding along with you! Your stories, photos, sights and sounds have been an inspiration. Thank you!
Jenn Milyko, Adventure Cycling’s Routes & Mapping Assistant Director, is fresh off her summer-long tour with some thoughts from the road.
As the weather begins to cool and fall begins to set in, I often think about how I can extend my cycling season. A favorite time and destination for many is the Outer Banks in October.
Adventure Cycling Association is calling on businesses and community groups to use Bike Your Park Day and its free promotional resources to build your customer, member and supporter base. Here’s how you can use Bike Your Park Day to expand your audience — at no cost to you.