Adventure Cycling Association

This story originally appeared in the Sept/Oct 2024 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  Apples got their start 12 million years ago in Central Asia in the area we now call ...

Walter Johnson was an assistant leader during Bikecentennial (tours across the TransAm Bicycle Trail in the summer of 1976) and one of the few black individuals to ride that year.  Bikecentennial ...

This article first appeared in the Oct./Nov. 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  Pittsburgh, July 1894. Anna Lenz was the first to sense that something had gone terribly wrong. She had never ...

This article first appeared in the June 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  A smiling bronze cherub stands on a pedestal clutching an ancient bicycle on a street corner in Bar-le-Duc, a ...

Sunscreen drips into my eyes. I use my hand to wipe sweat from my brow and wipe my hand on already saturated shorts.  “I was thinking strawberry and vanilla. What ...

This article originally appeared in a 1998 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  In 1963, Dervla Murphy hopped on her bike in Ireland and pedaled all the way to India … ...

This article originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of Adventure Cyclist. In 1974, a young Black woman in New Jersey named Miriam Martin decided to head west to Montana. ...

This article first appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Okay, enough already with the grand wonderments of bicycle touring. I just finished a 3,118-mile bike ride ...

This article first appeared in the March 2013 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Some people claim to be disappointed when they first see it. But on that sunny day, when ...

This article first appeared in the October/November 2015 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Late in the afternoon, I arrived in a small mountain town called Kibriscik, where I filled my ...