![]() Kylimt for sleeping on and a ‘way to thin’ Fairydown Supernova sleeping bag from 2004 (which I had boosted with 100g of extra down) for sleeping in. I’ve got a tidy little single-skin tent to keep the bears and cougars out. Ergon grips for some comfort, Specialized Power Saddle so I can continue to pee. ![]() GEAR HIGHLIGHTS: Nothing too fancy, some Lezyne lights in case it gets dark. Seatbag is a mighty Zefal, not common, not cool, but seems to do the job. RockShox Revelation fork and four-pot braking with big old rotors because stopping matters, and it’s my everything bike and Queenstown can be steep.īAGS: Southern Lite Packs front roll harness with DIY Carlson 3.0 glovebox, Carlson 2.0 feedbags, and Carlson 1.0 frame bag. It’s a mongrel drivetrain, mixing 11-46T Shimano XT cassette and 30T SRAM chainring with an NX derailleur. Rolling on a DT Swiss rear hub and rim and SP dynamo hub up front, both will have Vittoria Mezcals 2.25″ tires. Adam Carlson Age 45 / Queenstown (New Zealand)īIKE: 2019 Kona Honzo AL. I’ll run the K-Lite gravel headlight and Qube taillight. ![]() For a comfy night’s rest, I’ll crawl into my 32-degree Western Mountaineering bag with expander, tucked into a Mountain Laurel bivy. GEAR HIGHLIGHTS: I’ll be wearing several wool Fjallraven pieces as well as their Bergtagen Lite rain jacket. She also made my frame bag and modified a few of my other bags. The fork bags were made by my wife Mary, who finished the Divide last summer with them. Staying on theme, I’m also using a titanium Litespeed seatpost, Cane Creek eeWings cranks, and a Thomson handlebar.īAGS: The Stella is dressed up with an Arkel Seatpacker 15 seatpack, Revelate top tube bag, Rockgeist Honeybox feedbags, and a Cedaero handlebar bag. Lots of colorful bits from Wolf Tooth (a Minnesota company!) and a Boone Ti rear cog. The wheels are Santa Cruz Reserve 30s laced to a DT Swiss 350 rear hub and SON dynamo rolling on 29 x 2.25″ Mezcals. Paul, Minnesota (USA)īIKE: I’ll be riding my Chumba Stella Ti single speed geared at 34×19. Also, when the event launches on Friday morning, you’ll be able to follow along live over on our 2022 Tour Divide Tracker. You can scroll down for a look at all of the flat-bar bikes folks sent our way, and keep an eye on the site tomorrow for our gallery of 60+ drop-bar rigs. Because we had so many submissions this time, we decided to break the rigs into two days. Either way, it’s a huge undertaking, and we’d like to commend everyone who will be out riding this year. Some pack light and chase course records, while others will take their time and savor the ride at a gentler pace. Bikepacking the Tour Divide requires only intermediate off-road mountain biking skills, but it’s a painstaking test of endurance given the sheer scale of the route, which packs in around 150,000 feet (45,618 meters) of elevation gain and loss.Įach year, riders from all over the world line up in Banff on the second Friday in June. The route traces the Continental Divide and is 90% off-pavement along high-quality dirt roads, gravel byways, trails, and a few short sections of unmaintained tracks. ![]() The Tour Divide roughly follows the 2,700-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) from Banff, Alberta, to the US/Mexico border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico. As such, we couldn’t be more excited to present the Rigs of the 2022 Tour Divide-one of the most popular rig roundups we publish each year. After a canceled 2020 event, followed by an adjusted version in 2021 due to border closures, the annual Tour Divide grand depart is finally back to normal this year. ![]()
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