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Bikepacking Paso Sico – Argentina to Chile

By The Pikes on September 3, 2014

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Vast swathes of high altitude plateau, large volcanoes, colourful lakes and white salt flats provide a cycling treat, and if you’re lucky it won’t be blowing a gale. From San […]

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Introducing… Routes.

By Logan Watts on August 27, 2014

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After a recent stint of too little riding and a lot more programming than I’d care to admit, I am happy to introduce a new section of the site: Routes. When I first learned about bike touring my interest was piqued; but when I read about multi-day bikepacking trips through pristine and remote dirt routes, I was captivated…

Our Story

By Logan Watts on October 1, 2012

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Editorial Team Meet the folks behind BIKEPACKING.com. Logan Watts Founding Editor & Routes Director Logan Watts founded BIKEPACKING.com and is responsible for its overall vision. Before being drawn into the […]

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Rigs of the 2025 Stagecoach 400

By Miles Arbour on April 4, 2025

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The 2025 Stagecoach 400 starts this morning in Idyllwild, California, following a 400-mile loop on doubletrack, sandy desert roads, technical singletrack, and urban bike paths. Find our roundup of more than 30 loaded race rigs here, featuring bag and gear highlights for each…

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Rigs of Doom 2025

By Miles Arbour on April 2, 2025

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Described as a “beautifully evil bikepacking route in the South,” the fourth edition of Doom now includes three routes ranging from 100 miles to over 400 miles. With help from the organizers at Ozark Gravel Cyclists, we compiled a massive collection of more than 90 loaded race rigs, featuring bag and gear highlights for each. Dig into them before this weekend’s grand depart here…

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Rigs of the 2024 Hunt 1000

By Miles Arbour on November 18, 2024

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The Hunt 1000 is an annual bikepacking event linking Canberra and Melbourne via some of Australia’s most beautiful high country. With help from the route creator Dan Hunt and this year’s participants, we collected rider and rig details for 60 folks signed up for the 2024 event. Explore the full gallery of loaded bikes here…

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Rigs of the 2024 Tour Divide (Part One): Flat-Bar Bikes

By Miles Arbour on June 13, 2024

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With this year’s Tour Divide grand depart coming up tomorrow morning, we’re pleased to present the Rigs of the 2024 Tour Divide, our largest rig roundup yet! Once again, we split them into two categories and are beginning with more than 80 flat-bar rigs that will be on the 2,700-mile route from Canada to Mexico, including bag and gear highlights for each. Explore the full gallery here…

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Rigs of the 2024 Pinyons and Pines

By Miles Arbour on May 16, 2024

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Pinyons and Pines is a self-supported 300-mile bikepacking race that starts and ends in Flagstaff, Arizona, and follows some of the best terrain the northern part of the state has to offer. To coincide with today’s grand depart, we gathered details for over 50 race rigs, featuring bag and gear highlights for each. See them all here…

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Bikepacking with a Suspension Fork: Setup, Service, and Reliability

By Logan Watts on August 25, 2022

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While a lot of modern bike standards and technologies are widely adopted at this point, some folks might still question whether it’s okay to go bikepacking with a suspension fork, particularly on extra-long trips. Others might have questions about maintenance, service intervals, reliability, and setup. To test all this, we put over 1,500 miles on a fork during a big bikepacking trip, then met with a veteran suspension expert to see how it fared, answer some questions, and do some science…

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Rigs of the 2021 Arizona Trail Race (AZTR)

By Miles Arbour on October 27, 2021

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The 2021 Arizona Trail Race kicks off this week, following a challenging 800 or 300-mile route across the Grand Canyon State. We’re excited to share a collection of 30 rigs that are signed up for tomorrow’s grand depart. Find a gallery of photos and details on each bike and its rider here…

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Rigs of the 2021 Tour Divide

By Miles Arbour on June 9, 2021

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Back after a brief hiatus, we’re excited to present the Rigs of the 2021 Tour Divide! Find details on more than 70 bikes here, including the gear this year’s riders are bringing along for their roughly 2,400-mile journey…

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Forager Cycles Cable Cherries: First Look

By Logan Watts on November 19, 2020

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Bikepacking Journal contributor Dan Stranahan recently launched Forager Cycles and its flagship product, Cable Cherries, an elegant solution to replace those annoying crimps to keep the ends of derailleur and brake cables from fraying. We had the chance to try them out and ask Dan a few questions about how they came to be…