Fill in the form below or read on to learn about member benefits. A Bikepacking Collective membership is available to anyone, worldwide; additional fees may apply in some countries due to shipping.
Note: The deadline to join and have your membership start with The Bikepacking Journal 13 was October 17, 2024. If you join before April 17, 2025, your first issue will be the spring/summer 2025 issue (#14), which will print and ship in late spring of 2025.
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SUPPORTER MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
SUSTAINER MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
BUILDER MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
As a Bikepacking Collective Supporter, you’re helping maintain an independent platform so that we can continue to publish high-quality content for the entire community. For just 75 cents per week, you’ll help us produce unbiased, in-depth reviews, curate well-written photographic stories, and create videos, educational guides, and information to support the bikepacking community. Complete benefits include:
As a Bikepacking Collective Sustainer, you aren’t just helping evolve and build a stronger BIKEPACKING.com, you’re also helping us curate and create high-quality content for the entire bikepacking community and maintain the biggest bikepacking route network in the world. For just over $5 a month (the price of a coffee), you’ll also be eligible to receive up to two issues of The Bikepacking Journal in the mail each year and a whole lot more. Complete benefits include:
As a Bikepacking Collective Builder, you aren’t just helping evolve and build a stronger BIKEPACKING.com, you’re also helping us grow. Increasing your annual contribution to this premium membership level will help us build new website functionality and a better community… plus more high-quality bikepacking routes around the globe. Fifty percent of your annual contribution goes directly to the Bikepacking Collective Routes Fund, helping build new premium bikepacking routes. We sincerely appreciate your help. Complete benefits include:
The Bikepacking Journal
Bikepacking Collective Members at the Sustainer and Builder levels have access to
The Bikepacking Journal, our bi-annually printed publication that ships anywhere in the world. We print issues in the spring/summer and fall/winter of each year. We've printed 13 amazing issues thus far, many of which you can preview
here. Please note, a Bikepacking Collective membership is not a Journal subscription. Rather, the Journal is our way of saying “thank you” to the folks who continuously support our work through their Sustainer and Builder level memberships.
Access To Basecamp, Bucket List, and More
Membership grants access* to exclusive tools on the site, such as the Bucket List and Route Log, which allow you to bookmark routes you want to ride and check off those you’ve ridden. In addition, we occasionally post expanded stories from The Bikepacking Journal that are only available to members. The newest addition to the site, Basecamp, allows Members to find riding companions via Ride Rendezvous, shop for great deals in our Bike Camp Co-Op, and access Ask The Experts. *Note that access is different for different member levels: Supporter-level members can post and respond to Ride Buddy Requests, view Ask The Experts answers, and view/buy items listed in the Bike Camp Co-op. Sustainers have all Supporter-level access + the ability to post listings (sell/trade) in the Bike Camp Co-op. Builders have all Supporter- and Sustainer-level access + the ability to seek consultation from our experienced team in Ask The Experts by posting questions.
Collective Rewards
We give away bikes, bags, apparel, and gear packages on a regular basis. Each reward is limited to Bikepacking Collective members, who are automatically entered for each drawing. We’ve already given away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of great gear, including several bikes and frames, bikepacking bags, clothing, and more. Check the
Collective Rewards to see what's up for grabs for our members. A couple of our recent favorites include this
Revel Wayward Dream Build and a
Chumba Yaupon frame.
Industry Discounts
We’ve lined up hundreds of industry discounts. Currently, we’re offering members significant discounts from major brands such as Revelate Designs, PEdALED, Brooks, WTB, and many more. Take a look at
this list (we keep a fresh, updated list in the members-only area on the site).
Exclusive BIKEPACKING.com Gear
We occasionally offer new BIKEPACKING.com-branded merchandise including
t-shirts,
hats,
stickers,
patches,
socks and more in our webshop. Members will always be the first to know when new merchandise is added to the shop and will also receive a 20% discount. For Sustainer- and Builder-level members, we also routinely include a small "extra" with each Journal, such as
map, sticker, or
bandana.
Invest In The Future Of Bikepacking
Every year, we make an effort to invest in the community and build the greater bikepacking infrastructure. Member funding helps us maintain and expand our
original routes network, and we utilize a portion of member dues to build new routes. For example, in 2022, we launched the Eastern Divide Trail, the longest off-road bikepacking route in the world, a massive undertaking that couldn’t have happened without the support of the Bikepacking Collective. Additionally, we regularly allocate funds to support organizations and causes that make bikepacking a more accessible and inclusive pastime and sport. Past examples include El Grupo Cycling, which focuses on getting young people out bikepacking, and the
the Routes Access Fund, which we allocated a portion of member dues to support BIPOC bikepackers.
Consider this an ongoing list of benefits, as we have plenty of other ideas for Collective member offerings in the future. So get signed up, and please pass this along to your friends.
WHY JOIN?
BIKEPACKING.com was created from behind the handlebars out of a passion for sharing adventure. Our small team strives to inspire others to get out and explore our planet, experience its wild places, and connect with its diverse cultures, all via the bicycle’s elegant simplicity. In keeping with that mission, our goal is to ensure that the site and its many resources remain free and open to everyone. But, given the time and effort required to keep the site growing, we need your help with funding it. Here’s why:
1. Build a Better BIKEPACKING.com
Beyond ensuring the future of this website, your contributions will help grow and improve BIKEPACKING.com as a resource for the bikepacking community. This ranges from increasing our contributor rates to adding fresh mapping features to implementing additional website functionality.
2. Expanded Routes, More Inspiration, and a Bigger Community
Our ultimate goal is to be able to concentrate our efforts on 1) creating in-depth and meaningful content and inspiring stories; 2) bringing to life new and original bikepacking routes and updating old ones; and 3) connecting and informing the bikepacking community. Your support and input will enable us to continue pushing our high content standards and expanding our diverse network of paid contributors.
3. Banner Ads Aren’t Sustainable
With ad blockers, insta-marketing, and the erosion of online advertising rates across all media, securing banner advertising is becoming increasingly challenging, especially for a niche activity. Looking forward, it’s clear it will be unsustainable as our sole source of funding. While there are currently some banner ads in place, and we greatly appreciate our advertisers, we’re determined to create a more consistent and rounded model. In addition, managing a complex advertising model is very time-consuming, and much of that time could be better spent developing more meaningful aspects of the site. We’ve experimented with additional means of funding, but nothing feels quite true to our vision. Ultimately, we feel the future of this website depends on our community, the Bikepacking Collective.
Still not convinced? Read our Bikepacking Journal Manifesto for some additional thoughts on our goals for the publication and why we need your support.
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