Friday Debrief: Pizza Frame Bag, Maah Daah Hey on an All-Packa, Jones 20th, and More…

We started “The Debrief” on our YouTube channel last year as a way of highlighting the week’s news and things that caught our attention on the website, in the conversation, and elsewhere around the community. To take this a step further, we’re posting a weekly Debrief here on the site to highlight all of those things and more, including upcoming events and interesting things our readers shared in the comments. Check out this week’s findings below.

Bits & Bobs

New products that are worth highlighting but didn’t make the Dispatch…

Dispersed eeWings Crank Adapter

Dispersed Bikepacking, owned and operated by our friends Katie and Andrew Strempke, just added a clever little accessory to their web store. Designed for titanium Cane Creek eeWings Cranks, their Ti 6mm to 14mm adapter allows you to tighten up the crank bolt if it comes loose. It is made from titanium, weighs just 6 grams, and is machined in Kansas City, USA.

$35 / Made in USA / Details

OneUp 27.2mm Dropper Post + Drop Bar Lever

As we mentioned in a previous Debrief, OneUp Components added a 27.2mm diameter option to their lineup of dropper posts, which is perfect for lightweight cross-country racing rigs or gravel bikes. It’s available in 90mm and 120mm drops and has the shortest stack height and total length to get your saddle lower. Now, they’ve also added a 31.8mm clamp option for their dropper lever, so those running drop bars can get rad as well.

$199 / Details

Silca Gravelero Mini Pump

The new Silca Gravelero Mini Pump shares a similar design to their popular Tattico pump but boasts 35% more air volume for bigger tires. It’s made of a lightweight aluminum handle and barrel, uses a retractable hose, has a thumb-lock chuck for both Schrader and Presta valves, can inflate up to 80PSI, and weighs just 139 grams.

$75 / Made in USA / Details

Portland Design Works 1817 Gloves

Portland Design Works’ new 1817 Gloves pay homage to the early days of cycling. They feature soft, durable leather palms, a breathable cotton crochet back, and classic styling that looks like it’ll stand the test of time. They are offered in four sizes, two colors, and are available now.

$29 / Details

Twin Six Standard Rando Now in Fog

Fog is the latest addition to Twin Six’s collection of Standard Rando colors, and they say it was “inspired by our love of early morning rides, paint primer and things that color-coordinate with all things.” All total, the Standard Rando is now available in four colors as a frameset ($850) or complete build ($2,100 to $4,280) via their configurator, which includes a few fresh build options.

$2,100+ / Made in Taiwan / Details

Chris King Forestry Badge Merch

Chris King’s new Forestry Badge gear is guaranteed to get strangers asking you questions about outhouse locations and the best lookouts. The new collection pays tribute to the US Forest Service and includes hats, bottles, shirts, pint glasses, stickers, and patches.

$5-32 USD / Made in USA / Details

Wolf Tooth Morse Cage Stainless is Back!

We’re big fans of the Wolf Tooth Morse Cage and glad to see that they re-released the stainless version last week. Find details and a link below.

$29 USD / 58 grams / Made in Minnesota, USA / Details

In Conversation

Exchanges and ideas that caught our attention in the site’s conversation section…

Mid-Travel Suspension Forks with Mounts

After Logan’s in-depth suspension fork article, which included some interesting findings on the effects of clamping gear onto your fork’s lowers, we think it’s about time someone produced a suspension fork with bosses built into it. Imagine not having to mess around with clamps and zip ties, and having a reliable and dedicated spot to mount cages and other gear to!

Around the Community

News from around the bikepacking world…

Jones Bikes turned 20!

Over 20 years ago, Jeff Jones and his partner Sheila sold their bike shops in California and moved to Oregon, where Jeff set up shop in their garage. Jeff began building frames and experimenting with different ideas and geometry that he wanted to ride. Shortly thereafter, people were asking Jeff to build them custom versions of the bikes he was making for himself. Now with 20 years as Jones Bikes, these geometries live on and have evolved. Keep an eye on Jones’ social media (@JonesBikes) to catch more of their history and other exciting things to come!

Last Weekend for Fill in the Map

There are just a few days left to submit your local overnighter entry for our Fill in the Map Challenge! There are lots of great prize packages on the line, and we hope to see a lot more entries come on before the deadline on August 31st. Find details here.

James Hayden’s SRMR Packlist

James Hayden, second place finisher at this year’s Silk Road Mountain Race, put together a detailed breakdown of his Fairlight Holt build and complete gear list. According to James, he had no mechanicals beyond one tire puncture that sealant plugged up, and one of his favourite item was his disposable feet warmers for when things dropped below freezing. Dig into his pack list here.

Events Starting Soon

What to watch this weekend and bikepacking events starting soon…

2022 New Colo Race

The New Colo Race is a self-supported, mixed-surface bikepacking race traversing a diverse and rugged ecosystem, along the border of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. The inaugural grand depart takes off from Durango tomorrow at 6 a.m., and while there aren’t a huge number of riders signed up, there are a few folks to watch out for, including our friends Jeff Kerkove and Sarah Swallow. Follow along live here.

2022 Supergrevet

Distanzradfahrt Wien-Berlin is a multi-day self-supported bikepacking adventure from Vienna to Berlin. Following the original 1893 route, riders will rack up an impressive 750 kilometers (with 5,000 metres of elevation gain) on their ride from capital to capital. The grand depart is tomorrow morning, and you can follow along live here.

Wish We Were Here

Shedding a little light on a route one of us is dreaming about riding at the moment. This week’s comes in retrospect, as Joe Cruz had been dreaming about this one and recently took the leap.

Joe Cruz: Maah Daah Hey Trail

With summer ending and craving a last reflection: I’d been to 49 U.S. States, North Dakota was the only one missing. I flew to Williston and rode the Maah Daah Hey Trail down to Medora. The last week has been transcendent. Not a splinter of shade over the dust and palimpsest of extraction, geomorphology, western mythology. Riding solo through exquisite sadness and exultation, 150 kilometers of singletrack skimming a parallel dimension of 19th century lore and desolation, an infinity of heat or clay or cricket clouds. And then a headlong return back into corporeality on dirt roads and highways defined by oversized load trucks and hazy decoherence. Invited by heat and time to be tolerant of loneliness and grateful for the lucid fractal hallucinations it makes possible. Laying in the vanishing coolness thinking about how to make myself not think anymore, just waiting until massless photons crushed my gravity into cyclical forward existential abyss.

Weekly Social

Some things we found around the ‘gram and elsewhere. This week, some fun custom bikepacking bags we spotted online…

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