Singletrack/MTB
Gravel/All-road
Dirt-road Touring
Fat-bike
Cass Gilbert
Contributing Editor
-
Kenneth and Marie’s Ari Cycles 29+ travel bikes
18 Sep 28 Cass Gilbert / bikesIn our latest Rider and Rig, we admire Danish couple Kenneth and Marie’s beautifully crafted 29+ steel hardtails, made by framebuilder Ari Rosenzweig in Israel, for their dirt road journey across the Americas.
-
Jay Ritchey and his 27.5+ Tumbleweed Prospector
21 Sep 21 Cass Gilbert / bikesWe talk to filmmaker Jay Ritchey about his 27.5+ Tumbleweed Prospector, the camera gear he carried on a recent tour of the Peru Divide, and find out about the rack and bikepacking bags he custom made to accommodate it.
-
Salsa Blackborow ‘Midtail’ 27.5 Fat: 1st Ride & We Like it!
55 Sep 8 Cass Gilbert / bikesPerhaps you’ve noticed Salsa shuffling around some of their models of late, in terms of names and purposes? The latest in their lineup to see such metamorphosis is the Blackborow. Formerly a 26in fat bike, the 2018 Salsa Blackborow GX Eagle announced today has been completely reinvented into a cargo-carrying, 27.5in ‘midtail’, a stretched out fatty that’s likely to set adventure-plotting brains ablaze…
-
Andrew the Maker Many Things Sack Review
16 Sep 1 Cass Gilbert / bikepacking-bagsAndrew the Maker’s simple and elegant Many Things Sack tailor-fits around one of our favourite cargo cages on the market – King Cage’s titanium Many Thing Cage. We head off to Peru and see if we can shake the pair loose down its rambunctious Andean backroads…
-
Michael Dammer’s Karate Monkey & leather framebag
39 Aug 23 Cass Gilbert / bikesIn the latest Rider and Rig, we check out Michael Dammer’s Surly Karate Monkey bikepacking rig as used on the Colorado Trail, plus its awesome farm-made leather framebag…
-
LA-made Road Runner Bags release bikepacking line
7 Aug 11 Cass Gilbert / newsRoad Runner Bags are handmade in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, with color and flair. Meet their brand new bikepacking lineup…
-
Saddledrive 2017: Introducing the All City Cosmic Stallion, a classy all road bike.
1 Aug 8 Cass Gilbert / newsComplete with All City panache, the steel framed Cosmic Stallion joins a burgeoning drove of ‘all road’ bikes – fast but practical steeds, designed to transcend the notions of where a traditional road bike may take you… be it pavement, gravel, or even a swig of singletrack too.
-
Saddledrive 2017: Surly ECR goes dual wheel size and it’s Pea Lime Pie Soup for the Troll.
12 Aug 4 Cass Gilbert / newsSurly updates the ECR, including a rigid-specific geometry and the choice of 29+ or 27.5+ wheels, depending on frame size. Meanwhile, the Troll goes Pea Lime Pie Soup and there’s a Receptacle for your Moloko.
-
Saddledrive 2017: Salsa Beargrease goes 27.5×4 and Mukluk gets Eagle GX.
0 Aug 3 Cass Gilbert / newsFresh from Saddledrive 2017, Salsa’s big news – big being the operative word – is the fleet-footed Beargrease’s shift to 27.5x4in rubber. The Mukluk also sees some welcome spec additions, including the expansive range of Sram’s Eagle GX drivetrain.
-
Rider and Rig: Zach Shriver’s Trek Stache + CT packlist
44 Jul 28 Cass Gilbert / bikesWe take a look at Zach Shriver’s all carbon, 29+ trail slayer, the Trek Stache 9.8. We also hear about how it was set up for bikepacking the Colorado Trail, as well as exactly what gear Zach carried. It’s a great checklist for anyone planning to undertake this beautiful, challenging journey.
-
Big Agnes Q-Core SLX Sleeping Pad: lightweight luxury
13 Jul 20 Cass Gilbert / gearBig Agnes’ Q-Core SLX sleeping pad is one of the company’s lightest insulated pads to date. It’s also luxuriously thick. We take one to the desert Southwest and along the Colorado Trail to see how we sleep…
-
794 mi. / 1,278 km21 daysCaucasus Crossing: Georgia
238 Jul 5 Cass Gilbert EuropeThe Caucasus Crossing is a meandering traverse of the Georgian portion of Europe’s highest range. It offers a blend of classic mountain topography and rolling steppe, punctuated with a 12th Century monastery chiselled into a rockface, a ride around the country’s largest lake, a profusion of fortified towers, a generous handful of rugged passes, the inevitable run-ins with fierce Tushetian sheepdogs, and likely a few shots of chacha, the country's potent homebrew, along the way.
