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bike bags, bikepacking, frame bags, Gear, oveja negra, review, reviews - November 3, 2015

How I Refined My Gear Setup with Frame Bags from Oveja Negra Threadworks

Bikepacking is one of the fastest-growing sub-disciplines of mountain biking, and along with this boom in ultra long distance riding and a survivalist ethos has come a corresponding revolution in mountain bikes and associated gear. While bikepacking-specific bikes are one spin-off, perhaps the most important is the advent–and the extreme progression–of frame bags. In short, …

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Podcast: How to Choose the Best Bikepacking Bike + What’s Grinding Our Gears

In this episode, Aaron, Greg, and Jeff discuss ways to choose the best bikepacking bike plus we introduce a new segment titled, “What’s grinding our gears and stoking our spokes.” Want to know if fall weather and fewer mountain bikers in the National Forests is grinding our gears OR stoking our spokes? You’ll have to …

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Test Ride Review: Salsa Cutthroat Carbon Rival 1

Bikepacking is a fast-growing mountain bike discipline that provides the perfect combination of the go-fast mountain biking ethos with the wilderness survival ethos of backpacking. Finally, the bikes are starting to catch up with the riders, with more and more purpose-built bikepacking rigs hitting the market. The Salsa Cutthroat is one such bike. According to …

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Bikepacking Packs and Holsters from Restrap

Bikepacking is hot, and Restrap is scratching right where bikepackers itch with innovative handmade bags built to haul copious amounts of overnight gear. Or not–we’re seeing riders all over (including our own Greg Heil) using frame bags for everyday rides to get weight off their backs and onto their bikes. Restrap is based in the …

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bikepacking, Gear - August 26, 2015

Run What Ya Brung: A Low-Budget Bikepacking Trip

In today’s mountain biking landscape, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the only way to experience bikepacking would be to head to your local bike shop and pony up your hard-earned Benjamins for some top-shelf equipment. Thankfully for you, I tried an experiment this past weekend to test not only my dirtbag mettle, but also …

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