Lucas Winzenburg

This week on Reader’s Rig, we scope out Nick Karwoski’s 1991 Trek 970 Singletrack, built up for trips around town from mostly repurposed parts. Find more photos and build details here…

Months after first teasing them online, Porcelain Rocket has finally launched their latest innovative product, the Microwave Panniers. These super simple, fully waterproof panniers use a clever two-piece design to attach securely to nearly any rack. Read on for details…

Salsa Cycles just announced the newest bike in their all-road lineup, the Warroad, which features their new “Endurance Road Geometry” and is designed as a road bike that can comfortably veer off pavement. Read on for an overview of the new Warroad, along with details on build kits, pricing, and more…

For Collective Reward #026, we’ve teamed up with Australian bag maker Tia Evans and her one-woman shop, Framework Designs, to give one Bikepacking Collective member a made-to-order Sight Seeker bag, specifically designed to fit neatly into the Wald 137 basket. Find details and an overview of the Sight Seeker here…

In this week’s Reader’s Rig, we check out Ronen Chernyak’s custom 29er, hand built in Israel by Ari Rosenzweig of Ari Cycles. Find complete details on the bike and its origin story here…

Teravail just expanded its tire range, adding three new platforms with a variety of casings, sizes, and widths. All total, there are more than 30 new variations in their growing lineup. Find details and photos here…

Frost-Bound is an experimental short film from Bjørn Olson that depicts a fatbike journey into Arctic Alaska. Watch it here, along with a preview of Blizzard Beasts, his story in the upcoming issue of our printed publication, The Bikepacking Journal…

The Hyperlite Mountain Gear Dirigo 2 is a brand new self-contained, two-person, three-season shelter built with a blend of five different Dyneema® Composite Fabrics. Find details, photos, and a video look at its design and construction here…

This week on Reader’s Rig, we glance at Colton Berk’s Bombtrack Beyond 1, named Belafonte, whose maiden voyage was along the 365-mile Oregon Outback route. Read on for details…

For Collective Reward #025, we’re giving Brooks England Cambium Organic Light saddles to four lucky Bikepacking Collective members. Just announced today, the brand new Organic Light saddles are lighter and more sustainable than their predecessors. Now’s your last chance to enter for several other great giveaways, too. Read on for details…

The second WTF Bikexplorers Summit – four days of clinics, rides, discussions, and campfires, for Women, Trans, Femme and non-binary bicycle adventurers – will take place this August 15-18 in Verona, Oregon, and the organizers are offering scholarship packages to help five members of their community attend the event. See the details here…

In our latest installment of One Question, Five Voices, we ask a group of bikepackers to share their stories of failure, and to reflect on what those experiences taught them. Read on for five stories of broken bones, navigation meltdowns, parasites, and more…