Franzi Wernsing

In this Make Your Own Bikepacking Gear (MYOBG) tutorial, Franzi Wernsing provides a step-by-step guide to making your own cycling cap. Find her detailed tutorial here, complete with lots of photos…

Hesitant to buy another expensive, sugar-packed, individually wrapped energy bar, Franzi Wernsing teamed up with chef Mario Presi to create the Holy Moly Granoly Bar, a snack that tastes great and is built to survive being bashed around in a handlebar bag. Find the recipe here…

Franzi Wernsing and nine other Bombtrack Bicycle Co. riders take on the Tuscany Trail together, attempting to negotiate long days in the saddle and accommodate varied skill levels as a cohesive group. Read on for her story of learning to ride together as one…

In this feature, originally released in the second issue of our printed publication, The Bikepacking Journal, Franzi and Jona pedal into an unknown wilderness in the high mountains of the Alpes Provence. Read on for Franzi’s story about what it means to get lost in the mountains and pay it forward…

In this Rider’s Lens, we talk to Franzi Wernsing (aka Tales on Tyres) about the connection between traveling by bicycle and photography, her secret passion for portraits, breaking out of the Instagram comfort zone, and a life beyond asparagus peelers…

Franzi and Jona recently returned from a 15-month bikepacking trip through North and South America. Here Franzi reflects on their journey offering valuable stories and insight that might help others planning a trip, big or small, with their spouse or significant other.

In 2012 Franziska and her partner Jona set out on an around the world bike trip. After many countries and countless miles, somewhere amidst the rugged dirt roads of the Ecuadorian Andes, slipping her way through a quagmire of rainy season mud, Franzi began to question the very essence of what she’d set out to do…