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With two members of our Radavist editorial team living in Arizona, it only made sense to head to Flagstaff for our second Cycling Guide. With its recent spike in new singletrack development, legendary dark skies, and accessible location as a hub for other Northern Arizona destinations, there’s a lot to talk about. Read on for a look at The City of Seven Wonders…
The original Switchgrade tilt-adjust saddle clamp from Canadian manufacturer, Aenomaly Constructs offered nose-up, nose-down, and nose-neutral settings. But when Travis first rode it, he found the angles a couple degrees too extreme for his terrain. So today, he’s excited to share his review of the new two-position Switchgrade Duo, along with some of his signature soapboxing on saddle settings.
While John was hanging with Whit from Meriwether Cycles in the Nevada City area, he shot his Silk-Ti Flex Pivot bike. Whit calls this bike the Luddite. While we already featured this bike and the following write-up as a Readers’ Rides, John and his mindful eye have cataloged and fully documented it. Read on for the full story on the Luddite, along with some stellar photos of this titanium dream sled!
US-made carbon rim manufacturer ENVE just announced the fifth generation of its M Series wheel line, solving a major Achilles’ heel for people who enjoy backcountry travel. Read on for all the M Series updates and a quick review from John below…
Returning triumphantly after a brief hiatus, DAMN brings 24-hour gravel racing to the North Star State. Renee Hoffmann reports alongside Abigail Wark’s photos from the grassroots event that sees riders rally across the entire state of Minnesota.
Hailing from North Carolina, Hailey has called Boulder, Colorado, home since 2016. Commuting served as her gateway to cycling, though she quickly got the bike-touring bug after moving to Colorado and has since enjoyed getting to know more of the Mountain West from the saddle. When it comes to writing, Hailey has been called “a culture person.” She would describe herself as an enthusiastic generalist who sometimes wishes she could be more of a specialist—and that tension describes her preference for riding and bikes in a nutshell, too. Fortunately, it seems most of the gravel and off-road adventure side of the sport is currently facing the same conundrum, giving her ample genre-straddling bikes to test ride and write about. In addition to a focus on touring and bikepacking, Hailey’s Reportage often drills down on human and place-focused stories that belie her background in psychology and appreciation for a well-told narrative. She’s just as interested in following the Tour de France as the Tour Divide and, these days, is convinced that a hardtail will take her wherever she wants to go.
River trips on a cycling website? You got that right. We’ve highlighted numerous river trips in the past. As much as we all love bikes over here, we’re well-rounded outdoors people, taking on slot canyon backpacking trips, trail running, 4WD car camping, and, yes, rivers. On a recent outing on the lower San Juan River, Spencer and Blix renewed their wedding vows, with Cari and John in tow and a bunch of river guides Blix works with.
This beautiful gallery celebrates the West’s most precious resource, water while highlighting the beauty of camaraderie, all set in a stunning backdrop, deep within a desert canyon. Read on for some words by John and a fun gallery from him and Spencer!
The field of all-road and gravel bikes may seem crowded, but Otso Cycles always seems to add something new to the conversation with their bikes. In this review, Hailey Moore writes about what sets the Otso Warakin Steel apart among its off-road peers.
To help support our Bespoked Dresden coverage, Ergon bike components sponsored a special gallery with builds featuring their products, including some of our favorite saddles, grips, and bar tape. Below, our 2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 04, our final report from the show, features bicycles from Corrent Components, Kobel, Quokka, Rizzo, Scarab, Significant Other, and Sueess. Scroll on down to take it all in!
We still have loads more to share from an uber-busy weekend at the Bespoked artisan framebuilder and maker showcase in Dresden, Germany! Today, our 2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 03 reportage features some stunning bicycles and products from Abes, Actofive, Avalanche, Cicli Bonanno, Cyber Cycles, Garage 66, King Fabrications, Qvist, Raketa, Starfish, SON, and Tim Tas + Rek. Continue reading below for a look at more stunning craftwork…
Amid our ongoing coverage of the Bespoked Dresden framebuilder and maker showcase, today we are featuring a very special bicycle made by Berlin-based Fern Bicycles equipped with Allygn racks and custom bags from Gramm Tourpacking. With design language referencing a late-1980s Toyota Pickup and mountain bikes of the same vintage, the build features both old and new elements with components from a long list of artisan fabricators like Cyber Cycles, Garbaruk, Tune, Velocity, SON, Gevenalle, Btchn’, and many more. We think this bike might be peak Fern. Continue reading below for the complete breakdown of this special Fern Bicycles Chuck gravel touring bike.
If you’re at Bespoked this weekend, make sure to swing by the Fern booth to check this out!
Sam from Aotearoa, New Zealand sent in this beauty of a Hunter Cycles Midtail hardtail cargo bike for this week’s Readers’ Rides. Let’s check it out!
For the first time in history, there is a women’s field at Redbull Rampage. Serena Rio breaks down all the gnar alongside Dominique Powers’ amazing imagery. Don’t miss this historic event and the heroines who ride it…
Our European correspondent Petor Georgallou recently visited four North American framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. In the fourth chapter of this series, Petor joins Li King of Berkeley, Ca of King Fabrications. Petor chats with Li about their lifetime dream to become a welder and NorCal’s specific style as they prepare to head to Germany.
Our European correspondent Petor Georgallou recently visited four North American framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. In the third chapter of this series, Petor joins Christopher Schmidt of Colorado Springs, CO, who builds bikes under the name Good Grief Bicycles. What’s it like to be a Native American framebuilder in the USA? Join Petor and Chris for a thought-provoking conversation and take a look behind the bikes at Good Grief…
In the next installment of a four-part series, our European correspondent Petor Georgallou joins Significant Other Bikes of Denver, Colorado. Petor recently took a gonzo-style roadtrip through North America to visit four framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. Take a peek behind the bikes made by Ashley King at Significant Other…
Welcome to our second installment of Wish List, where Radavist contributors share their dreams of things that don’t exist, but maybe should. Some will be slightly niche but perfectly reasonable ideas that have every right to exist. Others will be impractical, expensive, and/or dangerous fantasies that probably should remain fantasies. Travis is back with another stack of requests, some of which go well beyond the bike industry.
Our European correspondent Petor Georgallou recently visited four North American framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. In the first installment of this series, Petor joins Memento Cycles of Montreal, Québec. Take a look behind the collective at Memento Cycles…
