The Radavist

We’ve got a small merch drop to kick off 2026…

On December 6th at 6 PM, we’ll be at the Marin Museum of Bicycling for a special evening to officially launch the Camera Corner book. Wende will be there to sign copies, read excerpts from the book, and talk about some of her favorite images featured on its pages. This is a free event. If you’re in the area, don’t miss out, and we’ll see you there!

The 2025 fall-winter drop is in stock at The Radavist webshop. First up, we’re super proud of our first cut-and-sew drop since 2017. We worked with a Canadian mill to develop a Radavist Rune logo embroidered sweatshirt in obsidian and an olive drab hoodie. These are the nicest garments we’ve ever produced. Full stop. They’re thick and cozy and minimally branded and made to last a lifetime.

Next up are our Austere Manufacturing cam buckle straps in 3/4″ and 1″ widths. The buckles are anodized, and then the Radavist Rune logo is CNC milled into the surface. We’ve also got three sock designs made from winter-weight wool. Our Cactivist design is back, as are the Klunker designs in new colors, alongside our new Aspen Vista design in charcoal. We brought back our made in the USA bandanas, this time in a Double Vision discharge design on an olive drab cotton bandana.

Meanwhile, John’s stoked on the Metal Bikes For Metal People shirt and sticker, inspired by one of his old Morbid Angel shirts from the early aughts. These shirts come with a free sticker, or you can buy the sticker by itself, too.

We’ve also re-upped our Radavist Rune stem caps, and the Bivo Bottles are back in both insulated and non-insulated with Dirt Caps.

All of this and more is in stock and shipping in time for the holidays. We’re offering free domestic ground shipping for orders over $50 through the weekend, too!

This month, Esker Cycles sent over its founder, Tim Krueger’s personal Solitaire klunker for one lucky Radavist Membership subscriber. Today, we pulled a random email from our list and landed on Malcolm Lee’s email. Malcolm is from Portland, Oregon, and will enjoy using the bike for bikefishing on the Deschutes River Trail.

Enjoy, Malcolm! Thanks for the support, and a HUGE thanks to Esker Cycles!

If you haven’t signed up to support The Radavist via our Membership plan, we need your help to get us through the winter cycling industry slump. Sign up for as little as $5 a month here. Your money goes to keeping our staff paid and everything running smoothly over here! In return, you’ll keep The Radavist free for all to read – like NPR, Wikipedia, and other media sites – and we’ll automatically enter you for a chance to win in these giveaways.

Hey local bike shops! Yeah, you! Looking for something unique for the holiday season? Or perhaps your staff all want a copy? You can now order Camera Corner wholesale through BTI USA. You can search “Camera Corner” or use the BTI Part #RK1000 and add as many copies as you’d like to your next order. Roll on over to BTI USA to see more. Please note: Third-party online sales are strictly prohibited.

This week marks a momentous moment for The Radavist. We just received copies of our first book, Camera Corner, which showcases the words and photographic works of Wende Cragg…

If you’re a Radavist Membership subscriber, check your email. We just sent over a special code to use at checkout for a 25% off sale on all of our in-stock merchandise. We’re hoping to make some room before our holiday merch drop. This sale will go on for a week. Thanks again for your support!

If you didn’t receive your code, you can contact us here for one.

TL;DR please sign up for The Radavist Membership!

John here. I’ll make this short and brief so that you can go about your day. You know me, I like to ramble!

Since fighting for our company back two years ago and returning to being wholly independent, we’ve been balancing on a financial precipice. The only way to find our footing in this dynamic and increasingly challenging media landscape is through readership support.

Cari and I spend every waking hour working to ensure our team of authors and contributors are paid over here. We’re not looking for year-over-year growth for the sake of it; we’re looking for stability and for the ability to pay our team better. More member support also means we’ll have more time to spend working on where to take The Radavist for the next five years.

We are lucky to have advertising partners, but that list is dwindling with the cycling industry’s uncertainty with tariffs and the US economy. If you’re a company that’d like to support us, please email Cari.

The only way for The Radavist to continue existing at this current cadence, with our wonderful team, is for the readership to step it up big time and sign up for The Radavist Membership.

Every single subscription counts and matters. If you’ve been reading this website for years, we’re asking for your support in the same way that we’ve supported you through entertaining and compelling content.

Our value add to the cycling industry lies in our ability to tell stories, document makers and their spaces, and represent the underrepresented voices in cycling. We provide decades of experience in our unbiased reviews. And shoot the best dang photos out there. No one touches our event Reportage, either.

The world is increasingly scary, and we vow to be a pleasant distraction from it.

If you haven’t, we’re kindly requesting that you sign up for The Radavist Membership. We need your help now more than ever.

Thank you,

John Watson

Founder of The Radavist

On a recent backcountry trip, perpetual unpaid intern Kyle Klain and First Lite fanboy had a revelation after drinking our Roly-Poly Radavist Deserted Blend instant coffee for weeks on end…

Tay, Cari, Spencer, and John were all in attendance at the 2025 Made Bike Show. The Radavist takes great pride in pushing ourselves to produce the best framebuilder Reportage each year.

Watch as Spencer and John discuss the atmosphere at the show, the cost of covering it, and how The Radavist Membership is the future for our nearly 20-year-old website.

Many thanks to Daniel Yang for working with us on this video! Please give him a follow for some of the best framebuilder BTS videos.

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Our feature on Basic Cycle Co’s Road Bike is one of the highest clicked Radar articles of the year! Because of your interest, the Tacoma, Washington-based builder wanted to offer one lucky Radavist Membership subscriber a Basic frame in their size and fork in Cerakote black!

Calling all outdoor folk! We’ve joined forces with Heddels, Valet Mag, Cool Material, Carryology, Edgy Albert, The Radavist, and Stridewise to give away two premium pairs of Serengeti brand sunglasses, an innovative eyewear maker with over 140 years of R&D under its roof…

We launched our Rad Bazaar in 2023 as a private selling platform for The Radavist Membership subscribers, offering zero commission on sales. Wanting it to be the best user experience possible, we built this platform from the ground up, opting not to use the buggy plugins commonly available. Over the past year, we’ve been working on the Rad Bazaar 2.0, and when it launched last spring, we received an influx of unique bikes, rare components, and other items our readership is fond of, resulting in 1500 listings and growing.

This week, a flood of really cool bikes has landed, so let’s check them out!