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Kona’s adventure bike selection runs deep and wide. Floating down the middle of that mighty river is the Libre line of dropbar bikes, including the carbon dreamboat you see here, ...
Pearl Izumi AmFIB Lite Glove, $55 I wore Pearl Izumi’s AmFIB Lite Gloves nearly every day for three months from August to mid-November in Montana, or during what some might ...
Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisperer Pant, $250 Sometimes after a long day in the saddle, I get to camp and start shivering. I’ll often put on my puffy, make tea, and ...
Ortlieb Sport-Packer Classic Panniers, $185/pair In our continuing series of revisiting classic bike touring gear (see my review of the Tubus Tara Lowrider in the May 2020 issue), here we ...
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2020 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. BULLS Bikes may not be a brand that has landed on your radar, but if a new ...
In my cycling life, there are certain things that I will not do. I will not call a water bottle a bidon. I will not consume any sort of energy ...
Ripton Action Jorts 2.0, $89 There innumerable bike shorts on the market but few that I want to ride in and also keep on when I get to camp. Ripton’s ...
I don’t want to start by sounding cliché, but just the name Travoy says it all for my first impression of Burley’s new pull-along trailer. Right out of the box, ...
Bontrager Starvos Helmet, $100 A few years ago, Trek’s Bontrager brand made waves (get it?!) with a new technology called WaveCel, a cellular liner that they claimed provided superior crash ...
This review originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Gestalt is defined as “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its ...