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Logan Watts
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Into The Island of Ice: Bikepacking Baffin Island
8 Mar 28 Logan Watts / Bikepacking VideosAn ‘illustrated’ video documenting a bikepacking trip over the Akshayuk Pass, a new 100 mile route across Baffin Island’s Auyuittuq National Park…
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In Search of the Best Bike Bell: The Bikeway Shootout.
59 Mar 23 Logan Watts / AccessoriesWhether used to warn ‘slow-walkers’ or just say hello in a universal language, bike bells rule. In our search for the best bike bell for the job, we narrowed our choices down to five contenders. Here’s our take on each. And read on to see which one really rang our bell. Ding ding.
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Lost Coast North
2 Mar 20 Logan Watts / Bikepacking VideosOver a thousand incredible moments captured in the latest film from Mike Curiak, documenting an epic return bikerafting expedition to Alaska’s Lost Coast. Spoiler alert: mind-bending glacial fragments, insane mountain backdrops, a stink-whale… it’s all here.
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New Santa Cruz Chameleon: Bikepacking-ready trail stud?
23 Mar 17 Logan Watts / DispatchThe all new Santa Cruz Chameleon is capable of shifting from a trail rig to a bikepacking mule using an elegant swappable dropout system — and 29er or 27.5+ hoops. It’s not too shabby to look at either. What do you think?
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Salsa Warbird Review: An Underbiking truce.
27 Mar 16 Logan Watts / Bikepacking BikesBack in the fall Logan and Joe borrowed a pair of Salsa Warbirds to ride the Green Mountain Gravel Growler. Here are their thoughts on the bike after a week of riding gravel, dirt tracks, plenty of singletrack… and Vermont’s infamous Class 4 roads.
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Revelate Mag-Tank: Fit for Vikings
13 Mar 15 Logan Watts / Bikepacking BagsInspired by Vikings — one source says — the new Revelate Mag-Tank forgoes a zipper and provides bag access via a smartly contoured top flap held in place by a brilliant magnetic buckle. See how it performed over 1000+ miles of rough and tumble terrain. Also, find a comparison with the venerable Gas Tank.
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860 mi. / 1,384 km 20 daysTrans-Cuba: La Ruta Mala
107 Mar 13 Logan Watts Latin AmericaA mentally perplexing and physically demanding 860 mile bikepacking route crossing Cuba via rugged dirt tracks, horse paths, sugarcane farm roads, steep rocky mountain roads, and a culture that’s beautifully unique. -
Alchemy Kratos Ti Gravel Bike Launched at NAHBS
0 Mar 11 Logan Watts / DispatchDenver, CO based Alchemy Bicycle Co just launched several new bikes at NAHBS including the Kratos, dubbed by Alchemy as their ‘titanium gravel/adventure bike’.
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330 mi. / 531 km 3.5 daysThe Palmetto Trail: Southern Ditch Divide!
88 Mar 8 Logan Watts USAThe bikepacking edition of the Palmetto Trail is a 330 mile traverse of South Carolina through long-leaf pine forests, sand hills, wetlands and wooly swamps. The route follows established passages from Spartanburg in the upstate all the way to the Intercoastal Waterway just north of Charleston, SC. -
Across Cuba… the bad way.
37 Mar 6 Logan Watts / Feature StoriesAfter just a single day into our Cuba traverse, we unanimously agreed that the route should be named ‘La Ruta Mala’, or ‘the bad way’. That’s quite a contradiction considering that our bikepacking trip across The Pearl of The Antilles would turn out to be a beautiful and fantastic adventure. But, then again, it took less than 24 hours to realize that Cuba is brimming with anomaly.
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Rider & Rig: Joe Cruz’s Seven Treeline SL
29 Mar 1 Logan Watts / Bikepacking BikesIn the first of a new series, Rider & Rig, we take a look at Joe Cruz’s Seven Treeline SL titanium fat bike. Find out more about the bike, the journeys he takes it on, and how he packs it…
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Announcing the Pipedream A.L.I.C.E. Adventure Bike
16 Feb 24 Logan Watts / DispatchAnnouncing the release of the new Pipedream A.L.I.C.E., the latest dropbar adventure/gravel-grinder rig from Scotland…
