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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…
Ian Graber-Stiehl explores the current state of cycling in Northwest Arkansas, where Bikepacking Roots is working with the growing destination city of Fayetteville to establish six adventure routes that provide 750 miles of trails and pathways in the Ozarks. Does Oz live up to the marketing hype? Read on…
Our friends at Industry Nine, located in Ashville, North Carolina, were directly impacted by Hurricane Helene’s devastation. To support their staff, operations, and greater Western North Carolina community, Industry Nine is donating 10% of sales to Hurricane Helene relief through the end of October 2024. Read the full message from the brand below, including more info on how your purchase can help…
The Coros Dura GPS unit grabbed headlines this summer with its claims of a 120-hour battery life. In theory, that could even be extended indefinitely thanks to the integrated solar panel. But Travis dove deep into the drop-down menus and found the stuff below those headlines to be just as interesting.
Today we’re detouring into the gravity space in the lead-up to the 2024 Red Bull Rampage, the first edition of the event that will feature a women’s category. Hailey Moore shares a brief history of high-profile freeride mountain bike event and how a few of the women involved are thinking about this long-awaited milestone.
As Ryan Wilson makes his way from Colombia to Santiago de Chile by bike, he tackles one of the longest climbs in the world, on a road that straddles the Chile and Argentina border. Follow along as he explores the stunning desert landscapes and night skies of the region while crossing Paso Agua Negra.
Back in April, John found Vivo Cycling’s Instagram account, on which the brand displayed a US-assembled CNC rear MTB derailleur. It is big. It is blingy. But it was still affordable-ish ($320), thanks to Vivo’s global supply chain of machined parts. He reached out to get ahold of a prototype of the Enduro derailleur for review and has been riding it for about a month now. Read on for his thoughts on why it took almost thirty years for someone to make another US-assembled CNC derailleur!
If you donated to the Southern Wonders GoFundMe fundraiser for Hurricane Helene victims of Western North Carolina, then you were AUTOMATICALLY entered into a raffle. Every $20 you donated gets you a ticket. Read on for the current list of give-away items, including a Radavist Swag Pack!
We love to see framebuilders make their customer’s dreams come true. That’s what legendary builder, Jeremy Sycip, did for Matt in California who wanted something different than a straight-up gravel road bike…
A local Arkansan who grew up in Bentonville, Hilary Lex left home after high school, swearing never to return. Fate brought her back and she rewrote the narrative of her relationship with The Natural State because of one unexpected thing: The Inaugural Arkansas Graveler. The Arkansas Graveler is a mixed-surface, 6-day ride across the state of Arkansas that takes cyclists from the rolling hills and hollers of the Ozarks down into the Arkansas Delta river bottoms. Read on below for Hilary’s personal recap…
Erik Mathy returned to Stillwater, OK for the inaugural Mega Mid South, a 300-mile gravel cycling endurance event hosted by Bobby Wintle and the team who bring the Mid South to life every year. Below, feast your eyes on a gallery full of Erik’s unique handmade images and enjoy quotes and prose from the Oklahomans who welcome these events into their communities. Without further ado… this is the Mega Mid South.
Photographer Erik Mathy has a problem: he has a hard time doing the same thing twice. For every project he takes on, he wants to use some new combination of camera, lens and film. When Bobby Wintle announced the Mega Mid South ultra endurance race, Erik decided to build his own camera to bring with him to Stillwater, OK. In this latest edition of Obscura, Erik shows us his latest handbuilt large format camera and explains how he went about putting it together.
Our friend and North Carolina-resident Jared Harber has pulled together a GoFundMe to help out the victims of Hurricane Helene through Beloved Asheville, a local non-profit. Read more below…
Santa Fe is where The Radavist calls home, so what better location to look at in our first Cycling Guide? Read on for a look at The City Different…
The Radavist copy editor and Northern California correspondent Nicholas Haig-Arack spent a weekend at the Cruiser Classic, a long-running grassroots gathering of mountain bike enthusiasts in the Tahoe National Forest near Nevada City. Read on for a first-person retelling of the organized chaos of the 2024 Cruiser Classic…
Yesterday we looked Inside and Out of Meriwether Cycles via an in-depth Shop Visit. In that post, we offered a sneak peek at Whit’s production adventure gravel bike, the Ponderosa. John has been riding a prototype all year, providing Whit feedback for the final production model, which we’ll look at it in detail today. Read on for a full review of this tall and sturdy dream bike platform…
Whit Johnson’s handmade bike company, Meriwether Cycles, has been featured here at The Radavist periodically over the years. Recently, John spent a day at Whit’s small garage shop in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains of California and got out on a sunset pedal with him. Read on for a look inside and out of Meriwether Cycles, in addition to a preview of Whit’s new adventure gravel bike, the Ponderosa…
The 2024 Mid-Atlantic Bikepacking Summit brought together 100 participants over four days in the beautiful Laurel Highlands region of Western Pennsylvania. The event celebrated riding in beautiful landscapes, inclusive community building, and shared learning among backpackers of all levels. Read on below for a captivating summit recap from Bikepacking Roots Executive Director, Noelle Battle.
