Adventure Cycling Association

This summer, endurance rider and internet personality Ryan Van Duzer is celebrating Adventure Cycling’s 50th birthday with a cruise down the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. And we do mean ...

Mountain biking in the ’90s was wild. It wasn’t just the neon kits and rigid rigs. It was that nobody knew exactly what was possible on two wheels in the ...

This story originally appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Join today to get yours. The city of Izmir rose in the distance. Until this point — ...

In America, whether our bike is a source of adventure (hello, new towns and terrain) or a ticket to a healthier life (goodbye, stress and fatigue), we generally ride them ...

No matter where I am in the US, there’s always an Adventure Cycling route close by. When I lived in Michigan, I pedaled out my door onto the North Lakes ...

This story originally appeared in the Sept/Oct 2024 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  Apples got their start 12 million years ago in Central Asia in the area we now call ...

Walter Johnson was an assistant leader during Bikecentennial (tours across the TransAm Bicycle Trail in the summer of 1976) and one of the few black individuals to ride that year.  Bikecentennial ...

This article first appeared in the Oct./Nov. 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  Pittsburgh, July 1894. Anna Lenz was the first to sense that something had gone terribly wrong. She had never ...

This article first appeared in the June 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  A smiling bronze cherub stands on a pedestal clutching an ancient bicycle on a street corner in Bar-le-Duc, a ...

Sunscreen drips into my eyes. I use my hand to wipe sweat from my brow and wipe my hand on already saturated shorts.  “I was thinking strawberry and vanilla. What ...