Cargo Bikes

Our friend John Freeman makes a guest appearance on this Baja Divide video where he goes over his latest dogpacking rig alongside his trusty companion, Mira…

This week’s Reader’s Rig is Montana Miller’s custom Waltworks Big Boy, a short-tail cargo bike that’s currently set up single speed and is outfitted with a full suite of homemade bags. Find the details on his one-of-a-kind rig here…

This new short from JustNormalFilm offers a refreshingly genuine portrait of Jo Min Geun, a South Korean cyclist with an infectious passion for his Larry vs Harry Bulitt cargo bike and the way it connects him to the people and places in his environment. It’ll have you itching to get out for a spin around the neighborhood yourself. Watch it here, along with a selection of still images from the film…

Rick Hunter has been making bikes for over two decades. All the while he’s been tinkering, hacking, and fabricating interesting ways to carry gear on his “Condor Tours,” railbike debacles, and other such far-flung bad ideas. We had a chance to catch up with Rick at his workshop in Bonny Doon, California…

In part two of our Rider and Rig Blackborow double feature, we take a look at Brett Davis’ rig. With a custom set of Bedrock bags, this Blackborow was built for exploring the sand and snow around his homebase in Durango, Colorado.

On the eve of a weeklong winter bikepack, we catch up with musician and poet Ben Weaver as he preps his Salsa Blackborow. Ben’s no stranger to long, music-themed bike tours. We ask him how he uses his bicycle as a way of connecting with his audience and find out about his summer tour, celebrating 20 years of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route through riding and music…

Mike Riemer and Hansi Johnson set out bike-fishing on Blackborows through northern Minnesota in Salsa’s latest film, Touching The Sun…

Sometimes the shortest bikepacking trips are the sweetest… especially if your four-year-old son is involved. Cass and his tribe head off for a family overnighter before winter sets in across the New Mexican desert, and offers advice for those thinking of trying something similar.

Perhaps you’ve noticed Salsa shuffling around some of their models of late, in terms of names and purposes? The latest in their lineup to see such metamorphosis is the Blackborow. Formerly a 26in fat bike, the 2018 Salsa Blackborow GX Eagle announced today has been completely reinvented into a cargo-carrying, 27.5in ‘midtail’, a stretched out fatty that’s likely to set adventure-plotting brains ablaze…