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Santa Fe’s Farewell has opened up a pre-order for its popular Memory Palace handlebar or saddle flap top bag. This bag design was popularized by Carradice in the 1950s, but over the years, they’ve seen a modern resurgence. Farewell’s take keeps it true to the original silhouette while offering a cavernous interior, side pockets, and an array of playful colors. The pre-order is open now, with these 16-liter bags retailing for $240.
Check out more at Farewell.
The Tumbleweed Sunliner ($3775 complete) continues a long-held tradition of equipping a mountain bike with touring accoutrements. Since the mountain bike’s inception, people have been bolting racks and strapping bags to them, taking advantage of its beefy chassis and wide gearing to pedal deeper into rugged terrain than ever before. John has been riding the Sunliner all year in the Southern Rockies, both unloaded as a trail bike and loaded on camping trips. Read on for his thorough assessment of this timeless touring bike…
Santa Fe is where The Radavist calls home, so what better location to look at in our first Cycling Guide? Read on for a look at The City Different…
As part of our Dream Trail series, in partnership with Visit Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, we present the Pacheco Canyon Gravel Ride. Read on for everything you need to know to get rolling!
Tonight at Santa Fe Brewing, the Gravel Adventure Field Guide Santa Fe is having a launch party from 5 – 8 PM. Roll through if you’re in town tonight and pick up a free guide!
We had a great turnout this evening at a sold-out CAMERA CORNER screening in Santa Fe at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. Thank you so much for coming out, hanging out after, and saying hi! Thanks to the Fat Tire Society for promoting the evening and to George R. R. Martin’s Jean Cocteau Cinema for supporting independent documentaries.
Many thanks to State Bicycle Co. for donating a Klunker. Congrats to Dan Young for winning the bike!
Our own Miguel stars in the newest project from the Gravel Adventure Field Guide, profiling some adventurous rides in Santa Fe! John and Cari even make a cameo appearance amongst the cholla and Chamisa.
Get your copy of a 64 page art forward gravel cycling guidebook that includes art, maps, digital route links, and stories highlighting the adventure riding in Santa Fe County,-Central New Mexico at Gravel Adventure Field Guide. Whether it’s the Town to Towers ride, or double track in the Caja del Rio, this guide has a lot of terrain covered.
We helped guide the GAFG team to some of our favorite rides, so check it out!
Camera Corner is coming to Santa Fe TONIGHT, September 25th, at 7 PM, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. This showing has sold out but find all relevant information at the Jean Cocteau website.
Our friends at State Bicycle Co. are giving away a State Klunker to one lucky-ticketed attendee.
The end of September is a beautiful time here in Santa Fe and we encourage anyone wanting to travel for the screening to make a weekend out of it.
See you there!
Pre-Order the Camera Corner Book here!
We hope you’re following Lael Wilcox’s Guinness Around the World Record attempt via her podcast, “Lael Rides Around the World” and tracker. Today, Cari, Miguel, John, and a group of Santa Feans met up with Lael to welcome her to town as she embarks on the final leg of her ride. Read on for John’s quick update…
Every year, the team at The Radavist shares their favorite products from their summer riding season, and this year, Miguel shares his favorite on our YouTube channel. What are some of your favorite products you’ve been using this summer?
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The Tumbleweed Sunliner is a flat bar rigid 29er mountain touring bike. It’s in the same brand family as the lauded Stargazer. After crowning the Stargazer best in class, John had to try out the flat bar sibling to see if it stacked up. While we have a much longer, in-depth review on the way later this fall, let’s take a First Look at this tantalizing touring bike…
Since posting our first look back in April, John’s been putting in miles on the Kona Ouroborus Supreme and finally wrapped his head around not only how to classify this bike but also what its best use case is. Is this the next stage in the evolution of gravel bikes?
In this episode of Race Metal, Miguel talks about the different sorts of cycling nutrition he uses for rides and races.
In our latest Race Metal video series, Miguel asked John what his favorite gravel route is in Santa Fe, prompting John to take Miguel along for an all-day epic. The ride starts in the Railyard District in Santa Fe and tops out at the radio towers on Tesuque Peak. Check out the video above and a short gallery below from the full Town to Towers Gravel Ride!
John likes to review a carbon full-suspension bike at least once a year to challenge his opinions on his preference of chassis material, and this summer’s bike is the 2024 Rocky Mountain Instinct. Thanks to new geometry, details, and a simplified RIDE-4 adjustment, the Instinct proved to be a very capable 140/150 trail bike. Perhaps the bigger picture of this review is John’s ever-questioning of his quasi-religious, cult-like zealotry for metal bikes…
In this episode of Race Metal, Miguel talks us through why he ditched his 1x setup for Shimano’s 2x Di2 GRX groupset.
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May is Bike Month in the United States, and locales celebrate the beauty of the bicycle in various ways, from group rides, workshops, and advocacy meetings. In the Southwestern state of New Mexico, John contributed to the local scene in Santa Fe by shooting promotional photos of a new Rocket Ramps-built flow trail, called Red Dog, in the La Tierra trail network with a crew of ladies.
The trail officially opens tomorrow, so if you’re in Santa Fe, be sure to check it out. If you can’t make it, no worries—we’ve got a great gallery showcasing this short but sweet flow and skill-building trail.
For the fourth installment in our Race Metal Video Series, Miguel Ovalles gives his first impressions of the Beach Club Al Dente gravel bike and sits down with Teebow from Beach Club…
Beach Club Al Dente Geometry:
