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Life on a bike inspiration via videos, rider profiles, news, and stories from around the bikepacking community. Have something to share? Get in touch!
Hosted by Ultraromance, the All Terrain Bicycle Challenge is an entertaining new game show-style series that follows five contestants as they dream up and build their interpretation of the ultimate ATB before taking on an impossibly difficult route. Watch the first episode and find details on all the bike builds here…
Paying tribute to the Transcontinental Race, Yann Moszynski and Matthieu Tober of Les Rookies put together their own mini version across the French region of Franche-Comté with a focus on authentic encounters and careless fun over speed. Watch their video, The Franche-Comténentale here…
Created to inspire folks to get out on whatever size of adventure they can, “Where Roads End” is a new video from Markus Stitz that chronicles his 200-mile journey along a modified version of Scotland’s beautiful North Coast 500 route. Watch it here…
The GranGuanche Audax is a self-supported bikepacking event across Spain’s Canary Islands. It’s 700 kilometers with 16,000 meters elevation of elevation gain over five islands connected by four ferries. Watch the official event recap video here…
“Usufruct” is a moving short film that follows three friends on an unusual bikepacking trip in colorful Colorado. Watch as they pedal through areas ravaged by fires and devastated by beetle kill to better understand the impacts of climate change on their home trails and forests…
Last month, six friends from the Steezy Collective—a UK-based group of women, non-binary, and trans riders—took on the challenging Lakeland 200 route, soaking in five days of adventure through the beautiful Lake District. Find the film they shot along the way and a written recap of the trip here…
As a newcomer to bikepacking, Josh Hicks dove in headfirst when he agreed to join for a three-day scouting ride of our new Peaks & Plateaus route in Utah as his second bikepacking trip ever. Find his 10-minute video recap and written report from the spectacular route here…
Neil recently stopped into the new JPaks workspace in Denver, Colorado, to catch up with founder Joe Tonsager and learn more about his small handmade bikepacking bag brand. Watch our video shop tour and interview here…
In this Rider’s Lens, we catch up with our spoon-carving, ukelele-playing friend Pepper Cook in Alaska, who shares her relatively newfound love of creating watercolors while bikepacking. Find a gallery of Pepper’s watercolor paintings, her thoughts on how being creative while riding adds to the experience, tips on getting started, and more here…
In celebration of his 30th birthday a few weeks ago, Miles set out with Emily for three days of desert singletrack on the Black Canyon Trail. Find Miles’ reflections from his first six years of bikepacking, photos from the trail, and some lessons he’s learned along the way here…
Analog Cycles is a small shop in Poultney, Vermont, specializing in a thoughtful, intentional approach to all-terrain adventure riding. In a short time, it has become fiercely beloved to many customers in the northeast of the USA. We visited Analog at their just-opened new location, and we think their reputation is rightfully earned. Find photos and our interview with co-owners James Johnson and Candice Passehl here…
Following his days spent covering the 2022 Sea Otter Classic, Evan Christenson put together this candid reflection on his first behind-the-scenes experience, an examination of his ongoing transition from racer to bikepacking tourist, and some hopes for the future of diversity and inclusivity in cycling. Find his thoughts and a gallery of assorted photos here…