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Bikepacking to Work: Turn Your Weekend into an Adventure

What do you do when you have to work on your day off? Make an adventure out of it, of course! Suddenly, it hardly feels like work. This past year working with the Forest Service, I worked a full-time schedule of four 10-hour days per week. A couple times I had to work on a …

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Taking the Kids Ice Biking: Adventures While Bike Commuting During a Wisconsin Winter

One of my responsibilities as a work from home dad is picking up my kids from school every day. We’re a one-car family and my wife needs the vehicle for work, so that leaves me with a great excuse to ride my bicycle! Here in northern Wisconsin, we sometimes have kind of intense weather. Wisconsin …

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#30daysofbiking Week 1: Weather Woes, and 5 Tips for Biking to Work

We’re four days in to the #30daysofbiking challenge, and I’ve yet to set tires on a trail.  Tuesday the weather forecast called for afternoon winds of up to 40 mph with “areas of blowing dust.”  So I rode to work in the morning, rode home at lunch,and then drove back to avoid inhaling half of …

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Old Hardtail to New Commuter: How to Convert Your Rig for the Daily Grind

After upgrading to that shiny new full suspension, disc brake equipped, 25 pound trail slayer, your trusty old hardtail gotrelegatedto the back of the garage. You look at it from time to time and remember the good times you had on it: your first crash, your first all day epic, that trip to Moab where …

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Old Hardtail to New Commuter: How to Convert Your Rig for the Daily Grind

After upgrading to that shiny new full suspension, disc brake equipped, 25 pound trail slayer, your trusty old hardtail gotrelegatedto the back of the garage. You look at it from time to time and remember the good times you had on it: your first crash, your first all day epic, that trip to Moab where …

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