Lucas Winzenburg

This week’s Reader’s Rig is Alex Buck’s vintage mountain bike of unknown origin, which was listed as a Surly when he found it on his local classified ads in Denmark. Learn more about the build and its backstory here, or even better, help him identify it…

For Collective Reward #063, three members of our Bikepacking Collective will receive a compact and powerful Vis Pro 1000 Trail headlight from Light & Motion. Learn more about the Vis Pro 1000 Trail and how you can win one here…

This week’s Reader’s Rig is Olivier Tostain’s Sour Purple Haze, which he built for fast and light rides on the cobblestone roads and dirt tracks around his home in the north of France. Find build details, photos, and more here…

Ride Together is a new international database and map of safe, inclusive ride partners for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, female, and other underrepresented cyclists. Learn more about finding or becoming a ride partner here…

For this week’s Reader’s Rig, we head to Berlin to check out our friend Jambi’s ultra versatile Hunter Cycles Backroad Tourer, a bike that’s been reborn several times and has traveled around the Europe, the US, and the Middle East. Learn more about Jambi and his one of a kind Hunter here…

We’ve teamed up with some of our favorite small bikepacking bag makers for this giveaway of more than a dozen handmade bags, worth $850 in total—the first in a series of five bundles! One lucky winner will receive this whole set. Find details on all the bags and the people who made them here…

This week’s Reader’s Rig comes from Afieq Radzuan in beautiful Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, whose Soma Wolverine v3.0 has taken him to the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal, the Atlas Mountain Race in Morocco, and beyond. Learn more about Afieq and his bike here…

Shimano just launched a special 25th anniversary edition of their classic SPD sandals, featuring a retro design and a unique colorway. Find all the details on the new Shimano SD-501A SPD Sandals here…

Our Reader’s Rig of the week comes from our friend Jay Ritchey, founder of Bags by Bird and Jay Bird Films, who shares his custom Hoefer Cycles “Chilleur,” which he had built with flat bars in mind to help alleviate his carpal tunnel syndrome. Find build details and more about Jay here…

Despite being a small brand, Melbourne-based Curve Cycling has built quite a reputation for their range of unique adventure-focused bikes. Lucas spent six weeks riding their Kevin of Steel around sunny southern Spain over the winter for this full review. Find his thoughts and lots of photos here…

For a limited time, Ritte Cycles is offering their Tom Kellogg-designed Satyr steel gravel bike in a complete SRAM Force AXS Mullet build from $4,999 with Hunt X-Wide Alloy Gravel and an FSA Energy alloy cockpit. Find additional details and build kits here…

The WTF Bikexplorers need our help to raise $10,000 that will go directly toward supporting bicycle adventures for five riders who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (BIPOC). Find details here, along with a link where you can make a donation to the 2020 SJ Brooks Scholarship Fund…