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Episode 02 of The Radavist Podcast is live! Don’t miss Hailey’s conversation with Matt Mason about the Monumental Loop.

Waxed cotton canvas and bike-to-life functionality—say no more. Hailey Moore just had to take one look at Chicago designed and made Garner & Tow bike bags to be intrigued. Read on for her review of two Garner & Tow crossover commuter products, the rack-compatible Tote and the dual-purpose cross-body Sling and frame bag.

We’re excited to announce our just-launched podcast! Hosted by Radavist contributing editor and cyclist Hailey Moore, The Radavist Podcast is a show about bikes, but it’s also about so much more. In each episode, we’ll combine our radical approach to storytelling with our deep love for bicycles. We’re interested in exploring all the ways that the bicycle helps us move forward, through conversations about the latest tech to travel and personal growth. We want to hear about the places that bikes take us and the people they make us.

Bikes are just the starting point.

In our first episode, Hailey talks with John Watson (Radavist founder and co-owner) about this website’s evolution from a personal blog to the countercultural cycling media outlet it is today. We hope you enjoy it! Drop into the comments to tell us what you think and send it to a friend!

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On Tuesday January 20, 2026, Adventure Cycling Association’s member-voting period over the proposed building sale of its historic Missoula-based headquarters will come to a close. Only, this isn’t the first time members have voted on the issue. Following up on her previous reportage, Hailey Moore shares views from both sides of the debate and writes about why some influential members, including ACA’s four founders, have banded together in opposition to the sale.

Reliving long days on the bike helps keep the motivation alive during the offseason, a reminder that the snow will melt and the days will, once again, be long. While impatiently waiting for spring to round the bend (the birds are already chirping!), Hailey Moore recently looked back on a full-value day from last summer, riding Mount Blue Sky, a Colorado 14er home to the highest paved road in North American, on her Rodeo Labs Trail Donkey:

“There was fire in the air on the last day of July. The morning felt thick with haze from the three Front Range blazes as I rolled my bike outside. Colorado has been lucky the last few years, but there’s always the chance that fire season will mar my otherwise favorite time to live here. At least the air doesn’t smell like smoke yet, I thought as I swung a leg over and pushed off. The day would be long and the air thin enough where I was headed: from my home in Boulder all the way up to the 14,000+ foot perch of Mount Blue Sky.”

Hard efforts are often as much about what happens inside your own head as the world around you, and Hailey’s Mt Blue Sky reflections reveal how she grapples with both emotional and physical challenges along the way. Read the rest in Rodeo Adventure Labs Journal!

Gravel is an imprecise term and ideal tire-size debates on the internet for a given route can go deep in the comments section. Slipstream AI is a new route-planning tool that hopes to bring a little more objectivity to how we rate gravel technicality for drop-bar riding. Read on to learn more about how this application is leveraging artificial intelligence to improve gravel cyclists’ experiences.

When it comes to increasing cyclists’ visibility, and thus safety, max lumens and fluorescent colors don’t tell the full story. During the five years they spent bringing their flagship tail light to market, the founders of Project Flock combed the research to uncover what factors increase drivers’ awareness of cyclists from farther away. They funneled their findings into the design of the Flock Light, a feature-rich tail light designed to signal “cyclist ahead” in drivers’ brains earlier. In her Project Flock Light review, Hailey Moore explains the most important factor in visibility for cyclists and how this innovative tail light is designed to maximize it.