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    • Things I Wish I Knew Before Planning My First International Bike Tour – Ryan Wilson

      Over the last eight years, Ryan Wilson has been traveling all over the world by bike on an extended tour and has learned plenty of lessons planning trips along the way.  Below, Ryan dives into some of the most frequent questions that people ask when they're looking to plan their first bike tour. Back in 2015, I was living my normal adult life in Los Angeles, California.  I had never traveled outside of North America or even owned a passport.  I had only ever camped a handful...

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    • Lachlan Morton Wins 2024 Unbound Gravel: A Personal Reflection – Nic Morales & Richard Pool

      Last weekend, Lachlan Morton’s historic record-setting win at Unbound Gravel felt like a rare moment that all cycling fans could celebrate. The Australian pro rider’s journey has been anything but ordinary. For many of us at The Radavist, Lachy represents a soul rider who continually manages to rise above the drama of gravel racing and win for all the right reasons. Below, Nic Morales offers a meditation on what Morton’s victory in Emporia means to the broader cycling community...

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    • 藝術 (Art), 手工藝 (Craftsmanship), 製造 (Manufacture): Taichung Taiwan is a Bicycling Manufacturing Mecca – Adam Sklar and Daniel Yang

      It is easy to take for granted how products from around the globe end up in our hands. When it comes to bicycles, many of us have no idea how they are made. Our Instagram feeds are filled with romanticized images of artisans building intricate frames one at a time, but what about the production bicycles that the vast majority ride? Much less information is available, leaving our imaginations to conjure up images of robotic welders and dirty, fast-paced production. This often leads to uninformed...

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    • Seeking Origins in Italy: Vaughn’s 1985 Airone x Cinelli Rampichino – Vaughn Dice

      In one of the most creative trip reports to grace this site, Vaughn Dice shares the story of acquiring a 1985 Airone x Cinelli Rampichino, the first Italian mountain bike, then taking the bike back to Italy for a tour on its original proving grounds. Read on for Vaughn's lively retelling of his time retracing this bike's origin story through the Piemonte Alps. At first the tire would only rub the chainstay when climbing steep hills.  Then it happened no matter how little torque was applied...

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    • Merckx Mondays: Will Eddy’s Record Ever Be Broken? Notes on the Tour de France Weekend

      With all the talk of Cavendish a few feet from breaking the outright TDF stage win record, then failing, and then crashing out, artist Richard Pool found inspiration in the G.O.A.T. and drew this up. It seems the outright stage win record, will now never be broken. Read on below for an op-ed on why Eddy Merckx will always be the king. The Weekend On Friday, we saw our little corner of the world slow to a cadence of 50 rpm, to see if Mark Cavendish could squeak out a Tour de France stage win. Thi...

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    • Britain’s Fastest Self-Powered Human: Mike Burrows – Petor Georgallou

      In what I hope will be the first of many monthly(ish) articles, of varying lengths, Nikolai and I visited (in)famous bicycle designer Mike Burrows, who has been a constant in terms of support, inspiration and taking me down a peg or two when I need it (always). Nikolai filmed our trip on my Sony A7iii as part of an ongoing project, so I decided it would be especially fitting for Mike to document our trip on celluloid with my Mamiya C330, and a little Olympus rangefinder on Kodak Portra 800 film....

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    • Sean Conway: Europe or Bust – A Filmmaker’s View – Kevin Merrey & Gavin Kaps

      In 2017 German endurance cyclist Jonas Deichmann set the world record for cycling across Europe, fully self-supported, in an incredible 25 days. This is a 6500km journey, starting in Portugal on the Westernmost point, crossing a further 7 countries all the way to Ufa at the Easternmost point of Europe. However, the world's fastest cycling record is something that has eluded another endurance athlete for years. That of UK based and Zimbabwe-born, bearded adventurer Sean Conway. Sean has set other...

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    • 2020 Single Speed Arizona! Bisbee Edition – Nate Woiwode, Corbin Brady, & Josh Weinberg

      Before I go into the story of Single Speed Arizona 2020, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Nate. I’m from Tucson, Arizona and I own a bike shop called Blue Dog Bicycles. I eat, sleep, breathe, shit, and fart mountain biking. I’ve been making unique and challenging routes around Southern Arizona for 11 years and heading out with my friends to try to push ourselves. I host 10-15 bike events a year around Southern Arizona. Everything from taco scavenger hunts to 400-mile gravel e...

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    • Velo Orange’s Neutrino: A Minivelo with Big Capabilities – Spencer Harding

      I, along with a few other eccentrics, have been dreaming of the idea of a small wheeled bikepacking rig for years. If you have ever had to box up your 29+ or other fat-tired bike for international travel in a small box, under 50 pounds, then you understand how annoying and stressful that can be. In my mind’s eye, I saw a 20” minivelo with a massive triangle floating on 3”-4” tires, maybe even a Ritchey Breakaway style seatpost break if I was truly dreaming. Minivelos have been around for quite s...

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    • From the End of the Road to the Kyrgyz Silk Road – Ryan Wilson

      Three years ago when I was tossing around the idea of a long-term bikepacking trip, I had two primary options on my mind. There was Peru and the Andes of South America, which I had a tiny bit of familiarity with given my short previous stint there, and then the wild card… Kyrgyzstan. A small former Soviet country dotted with lakes and covered in glaciated peaks as tall as 24,400 feet. With a rich nomadic history due to its place on the ancient Silk Road trading route that passed through from nei...

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    • Grav. Grav. And Double Grav! the Bicycle Academy at Grinduro Scotland – Jack Watney & Adam Gasson

      Words by Jack Watney, photos by Adam Gasson And now here they are! The most daredevil group of daffy frame builders to ever whirl their wheels in the WACKY RACES. Competing for the title of Grinduro’s wackiest frame builder. The bikes are approaching the starting line. First, is the TBA GXC driven by Tom Sturdy. Next is paratrooper Will Barcode on the TBA Splat Grav. Flying through the air is the Rad Roamer piloted by Ted James. Maneuvering for position is Andy Carr on the Spoon Customs Fat Trac...

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    • Scratching from the Silk Road Mountain Race – Max Burgess | The Radavist

      Scratching from the Silk Road Mountain Race Words and photos by Max Burgess So what happens when you make the decision to quit the first edition of one of the most anticipated endurance races on the p...

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    • SWOT and the North Cape 4000 – Erik Nohlin | The Radavist

      SWOT and the North Cape 4000 Words by Erik Nohlin, photos by Beth Wellie Editor's note: this is a long piece, but I wanted to leave it mostly unedited to maintain Erik's voice, and all are encouraged ...

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    • The Beauty of Fatigue: Slow (SLO) Road to Eroica – Tenzin Namdol | The Radavist

      The Beauty of Fatigue: Slow (SLO) Road to Eroica Words by Tenzin Namdol, photos by Ultra Romance Something happened to me while I was riding the 90-mile NOVA Coastal Route of Eroica California, I star...

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