Who'll Make the TransAm Touring Bike?
Though it shares its name with a city in North Dakota occupying very un-Great Divide-like terrain, the Salsa Fargo is another terrific bike designed for off-pavement bicycle touring.As I read Josh Tack's October 1 "Touring Gear and Tips" post titled Interbike Roundup Part 1: New 2012 Touring Bikes, I was fascinated to learn that Co-Motion Cycles of Eugene, Oregon, is producing an off-pavement touring bike called the Divide. (It's not cheap, by the way.)"The trail traverses the continent along its spine, crossing desert, alpine meadows, [and] mountain streams; over packed snow, hardship and triumph," reads the copy at Co-Motion's website. "This is the bicycle that will take you there."In my recollection ? though I could be forgetting something here ? the Divide is the first production bike named in honor of an Adventure Cycling route.While I think this is exceedingly cool, in my mind it also begs the question: Why hasn't any bicycle manufacturer designed the ultimate road-touring bike and dubbed it the TransAm? If they did, I predict they'd sell a ton of 'em.Happy Halloween!Photo by Michael McCoy.--BIKING WITHOUT BORDERS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s media specialist, and highlights a little bit of this or a little bit of that ? just about anything, as long as it?s related to traveling by bicycle. Mac also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to more than 42,000 readers worldwide.
Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/10/wholl-make-transam-touring-bike.html



Is your 2012 bike tour going to be a Rocky Mountain High? Or are you California Dreamin'?In either case, you have a dozen multi-day bike tours scheduled this summer in Colorado and California from which to choose.Some are mass bike rides with hundreds of cyclists, such as Ride the Rockies presented by the Denver Post. Others are more intimate affairs with fewer than 20 riders offered by Adventure Cycling Association.I'm updating the list of Across-State Bicycle Rides for 2012, so there are dates and host cities ...