Review: Ortlieb Bikepacking Frame Bag
We are back from Montana! During our 5 days in SW Montana we tried a lot of different permutations of bags and racks. One of my personal favorite bags was the Ortlieb frame bag. In…
Cycling Southwest Montana – A Ride on the The Great Divide
In this final video in our series in riding in Southwest Montana, we do a day ride on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Many ride it as a long tour, we ride a section…
Cycling Southwest Montana: Gravel Grinding in Dillon, MT
In this third part to our Cycling Southwest Montana series, we leave the pavement and find some awesome gravel roads into the Pioneer Mountains! We will do a later summary post with GPS routes, but…
Cycling Southwest Montana: Ride Around the Pioneer Mountains
In this video we ride a portion of the RATPOD route (Ride Around the Pioneer Mountains in One Day) in two days. We run into a few Great Divide riders, pedal up and over the…
Cycling Southwest Montana: Day 1
We just wrapped up a week of riding and exploring in Southwest Montana! We rode a little of everything from the a section of the Trans Am, to new gravel roads and a portion of…
Headed to Southwest Montana!
We are on the road! Currently updating this from a motel room in Moscow, Idaho (watching some terrible cable), we are working our way to Dillon, Montana to spend a week in the area for…
Bikepacking Shakedown with the DJI Spark!
We went out to the Deschutes River Trail to do a little shakedown ride with our El Mariachi’s fully loaded recently and I decided to pack the DJI Spark to see how it performs in…
DJI Spark for Bikepacking?
The DJI Spark promises to be the ultimate small drone perfect for capturing your bike adventures, but is it? After a few days of playing with one, I’ve come to realize it is indeed a…
Review: Ren Cycles Ivan
In this video, I ride another bike by Ren Cycles, a local brand here in Portland. This is their Ivan model, a ti cross racing machine / fast adventure bike. This particular model is setup…
Shop Visit: The Vanilla Workshop
In this video, we get a shop tour of The Vanilla Workshop! Vanilla has transformed from just being the work of one artisan builder, to a team that produces bikes with amazing customizability and an…