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1 week ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
The countdown to the 2025 edition of the Swift Campout has begun! Join fellow bikepackers worldwide and celebrate the summer solstice with a night outside this weekend. Find details and join the community here…In celebration of the summer solstice, the 11th annual Swift Campout is happening this weekend, June 21-22, 2025.
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1 week ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
The latest ambitious record attempt in the bikepacking world comes from distinguished ultra-racer Sofiane Sehili of France, who will soon pedal across 15 countries, from Portugal to the east of Russia.
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1 week ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
Always searching for another project, Lucas picked up a beautiful 1984 Trek 830 yesterday, and he’s seeking input on how to rebuild it as a commuter ATB. Peek at his latest time capsule find, share your photos, and weigh in on the first installment of This Old Trek here…Try as I might, even as someone who’s lived a largely clutter-free lifestyle for a couple of decades now, one thing I have a hard time resisting is a cheap and tall old 26-inch mountain bike.
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1 week ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
In partnership with Hyperlite Mountain Gear, we’re excited to give away a $950 CrossPeak 2 tent for our 217th Collective Reward.
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1 week ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
Originally aired on the BBC’s Nationwide series in the mid-1970s, “BIG JIM’s Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar” is an entertaining seven-minute video following a charismatic farmer on a rugged backcountry ride with a handful of whisky stops en route. Watch it here…Big Jim Collie was a farmer who lived in a bothy set at the foot of Scotland’s beautiful Cairngorms, and he had a secret weapon.
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1 week ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
In our latest edition of Weekend Snapshot, readers on three continents share scenes from bikepacking getaways across a trio of distinctive landscapes. Catch up on this week’s community-sourced vignettes and share a photo from one of your rides here…From the forested mountains of New Mexico to the jagged peaks of Chile and Scotland’s quiet backroads, today’s installment of Weekend Snapshot highlights a scenic collection of reader-submitted scenes from rides around three continents.
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2 weeks ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
Following the Rider’s Lens showcase of his photography last week, today’s edition of Reader’s Rig comes from Adam Wilkoszarski of Poznań, Poland, who shares his Lefty-equipped True Love Cycles Heart Breaker. Take a closer look here…Words and photos by Adam WilkoszarskiHi, I’m Adam, and I’m excited to have the chance to share another one of my bikes here on this platform. I still spend every spare moment riding, cooking, and planning my next bikepacking adventures.
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2 weeks ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
Earlier this week, the BBC’s Travel section featured a report from Jen Rose Smith, who pedaled part of our Route of Caravans across beautiful Morocco. Find a link to read it here…First scouted a decade ago by Logan Watts and completed by Evan Christenson last year, our Route of Caravans is a sprawling 1,300-mile dirt traverse of Morocco that spans the Anti-Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert, and the High Atlas.
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2 weeks ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
“The Present” is an 18-minute documentary that follows Dimitri Poffé’s bikepacking journey from Mexico to Patagonia to raise awareness of Huntington’s disease, a rare and incurable genetic disorder that causes the breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. Watch it here… Photos by Dimitri PofféFrench adventurer Dimitri Poffé is the founder of ExploreForHuntington, a project to ride 18,000 kilometers solo from Mexico to Patagonia.
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2 weeks ago | 
bikepacking.com | Lucas Winzenburg
This Weekend Snapshot connects rides around two corners of Europe and the West Coast of the U.S. Find reader-submitted scenes from a few folks who recently got out for some time on the bike and use the quick form to share a shot from one of your rides here…From a quick overnighter to a nearby state park in Washington to a spin up into the Swiss Alps and a journey across Germany, today’s installment of Weekend Snapshot highlights three unique approaches to bikepacking.
