Lucas Winzenburg

Generational Tales is an uplifting new film from Bombtrack Bicycle Company that follows Franzi Wernsing of Tales on Tyres as she guides her dad through a crash course in bikepacking, taking him out for a five-day trip on Italy’s beautiful Tuscany Trail. Watch it here…

With the new year upon us, we want to check in with you to find out what you’d like to see more (and less) of on the site in 2021. Find a short reader interest survey and a chance to win prizes for filling it out here…

State Bicycle Company just opened sales for a refreshed version of their affordable 6061 Black Label All-Road bike, which is now available in two new colors and with an updated 1×11 drivetrain. Find details on their $1,400 aluminum all-road rig here…

This week’s Reader’s Rig comes from Jason Lynch, who shares the custom Tempest Bicycles Thunderhorse he had built up for long tours on Australia’s rugged roads and trails. See more here…

Over the past couple of years, our friends at Shift Cycling Culture have been asking some of the most talented filmmakers from around the cycling community to create short films showcasing the special places they think are worth protecting. We rounded them all up so you can watch the first six installments of “We Love Where We Ride” here…

We recently stopped into the Drust Cycles workshop in Berlin to meet builder Konstantin Drust and learn more about the distinctive and occasionally outlandish bikepacking-ready frames he’s been fabricating during his first year in business. Find our interview and a look inside his space here…

Our first weekly Reader’s Rig of 2021 is Christopher Schmidt’s fixed gear Velo Orange Neutrino, a bike that’s small in size but big on charm, and is freshly back from a Good Night 2020 campout. Learn more about Christopher and his one-of-a-kind mini velo here…

Ride Wrap recently announced an expansion of their line of bike frame protection kits to include a growing range of gravel bikes, from universal protection kits for high-wear areas to fully tailored protective films that are unique to your bike. Learn more here…

This new video offers a glimpse of the incredible scenery and what riders can expect from the Freedom Challenge’s Race Across South Africa, a yearly ultra-distance race that gives racers 26 days to traverse the country using only paper maps. Watch it here…

To kick off our new round of Collective Reward gear giveaways, we’re setting up five winners with a set of Tailfin Cargo Cages, an innovative and adaptable new platform for dialing in your bikepacking rig’s hauling capacity. Learn more here…

The Mountain Why is the latest film in the Fifty Project series, and it follows professional skiers Cody Townsend and Michelle Parker on a 1,000-mile bikepacking journey to ski three iconic mountains on the West Coast, all by human-powered travel. Watch the full 40-minute film here…

We’re closing out 2020 with a final Reader’s Rig from Nick Jensen of Manzanita Cycles, who built himself this custom steel 29er with an ENVE Mountain Fork for taking on technical singletrack routes around his home base in Nevada’s Sierra Nevada range. See more here…