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advocate cycles, baja divide, bikepacking, News, revelate designs - September 29, 2016

Introducing the Baja Divide, and a Women’s Scholarship to Ride it Next Year

The Baja Divide is a newly-published off-road bikepacking route that spans the 1700-mile-length of the Baja Peninsula from San Diego, CA to San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. The route was researched and created by Nicholas Carman and Lael Wilcox, both of whom are highly-experienced in the bikepacking world, and have spent the better part of …

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Over a Beer: Dreaming of Greatness – The Upper Echelon of Human Achievement

Editor’s Note: “Over a Beer” is a regular column written by Greg Heil. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, any opinions expressed in this column are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. My mind was wandering during my after work ride recently, and following some undirected self reflection I …

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bikepacking, blackburn, Gear - July 30, 2016

An Intro to Bikepacking: Blackburn’s “Roll With It” Film and Book

Bikepacking, or “amatuer homeless personing” as my friend Dicky likes to call it, can seem intimidating. You need all this special gear, right? You’ve got to pack it all just so. Oh, and don’t forget the “right” kind of bike, too. Well, that’s not really the case, as our own writer Alec Cervenka posited in …

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Salsa Introduces New EXP Bag Line

In addition to a couple new bikes and some revamps, Salsa has introduced its new line of bags, the EXP series, for 2017. These bags are designed specifically to fit on their bikes, though most of them seem versatile enough to put on many other mountain bikes as well. Frame Bag Salsa first designed this frame bag around the …

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5 Adventurous Alternatives to Bikepacking

Lots of us dream of loading the bike for a multi-day backcountry adventure, but then reality sets in. You have the bike, but you might be looking at hundreds of dollars, if not thousands, to outfit your bike and make it ready for bikepacking. That assumes the bags will fit on your current bike, and let’s …

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