The Radavist

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.

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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!

Summer has been rocking in the Southern Rockies, and we’ve got some fresh merch all stocked in The Radavist webshop. New this season are Classic Check socks, Big Jackal t-shirts, Radavist Bivo Bottles, and a re-up of many of our classic designs, including Camp Hats, Klunker Socks, Camo Socks, as well as a top off of our Roly Poly Instant Coffee.

All items are in stock and ship on Tuesdays from The Radavist HQ in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Roll on over to The Radavist webshop to check them out!

Outside is Magic, a new podcast from Broken and Coastal founder Christopher San Agustin interviewed John recently.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to build something on your own terms, the highs and lows of creative work, and how bikes became a medium for so much more than riding. We get into the early days of blogging, navigating burnout, the impact of community, and how John has managed to keep The Radavist weird, personal, and honest, even as the industry changes around him.

Whether you’re a cyclist or not, this episode is about staying true to your voice, creating space for others, and learning to move a little slower.

Special thanks to Christopher for the time and effort here. Much respect!

Check it out on:

Apple

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Hey everyone! We’ve got a restock of our Realm Camera Bags going onto our Radavist Webshop this morning at 10 AM MST. But there’s a catch. We’re opening the restock first to our Membership subscribers. So if you’re not subscribed to The Radavist Membership, you might want to do that now. After 24 hours, if inventory remains, we’ll open it up to everyone.

Members, look for an email with instructions today at 10 AM MST! We’ll be doing more of this with these special limited releases as a thank you to our supporters.

As always, we appreciate your support. Consider joining our Membership to support our independent Reportage.

Cari and Christina met in Fairfax with Wende Cragg to finish wrapping up the Camera Corner book earlier this month. We have some good news! The book is still on its original schedule, so we are still planning on shipping it out in November. The book is really coming together, with approximately 200 pages of stunning photography and words by mountain biking’s poet laureate, Wende Cragg.

Together, Cari Carmean and Christina Speed have a collective decades-plus worth of experience in graphic design, art direction, and photo editing, and they once worked together in the outdoor industry a handful of moons ago. Christina now works as a full-time freelance book designer and designs all the books for Patagonia and other clients. Their collective vision for this book is to finally bring Wende’s beautiful work – her images and words – to light in print form.

Stay tuned for more updates as events warrant. And yes, you can still pre-order the book. This will help us offset the costs of producing it.

Thanks for your patience! We want this book to be perfect and getting it right takes time. :-)

Hey everyone, John here. I feel like I’ve been caught in a tornado of events this year and wanted to give y’all a brief update about what’s been going on behind the scenes at The Radavist over the past few months. Read on for a Rad Bazaar and Radavist Membership update!

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Ocean and San make some of the nicest cycling apparel with its unique approach to matching casual silhouettes with comfortable staples. This month, we’re stoked to give away three choice items from the brands Made in California line.

• DeltaPeak UtiliTee (any size and color).
• Solution Two Cargo Bibs (any size). Black is the most stocked color, so if we could mention “Black Solution Two Cargo Bibs” that could be helpful.
• Pathfinder Hat (any color)

Last month’s prizes, copies of Love Letter, Turbo, have been shipped out to ten lucky Membership subscribers. You should have them any day now!

The Radavist is stoked to be partnering with Summer Vibes Bike Rally & Run Festival for an incredible VIP giveaway, and we’ve got a lot up for grabs, including Radavist-branded Ripton jorts for men or women. Read on for the full prize scoop!

We’ve got a small and refined Radavist merch drop for Spring 2025 live in our webshop right now. This includes the return of the Talc white Camp Hat (and a restock of the Plum purple color!), “Prolly Purple” Dynaplugs with a custom anodized finish by the Meerkat himself, Cari Carmean-designed Cloud Camo socks in olive drab or desert tan, Radavist Classic Shirt in Alpenglow, a Charcoal batch of Yo Socks, and the return of our Strata bottles.

All in stock and shipping on Tuesdays from The Radavist HQ in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Roll on over to The Radavist webshop to check them out!

Pinch Yourself, You’re At Bike Camp.

This April, Two Bikes Chattanooga rang in their first birthday with a two day “celebration of the non-competitive side of cycling” featuring bikes and camping. They’re calling it “Bike Camp”.

Bike Camp is a festival hosted by another source of magic, Two Bikes Chattanooga. Two Bikes is a nonprofit community bike shop that, among other things, diverts bikes and bike parts from the waste stream, builds rad bikes, donates a bike to someone in need for every bike they sell, and provides a community bike stand (and encouragement) free of charge. Mitchell Connell founded this second version of Two Bikes in Chattanooga last April (it’s a separate nonprofit from the original Knoxville entity, for the sake of the resilience and agility of both), and has been building community around it at a meteoric pace for a year now.

Big thanks to Mitchell, Derek, and the broader team of staff, workshop hosts, vendors, and volunteers who made Bike Camp exist. Thanks to Lael for always bringing such friendliness & positivity wherever she goes. And, of course: thanks to everyone who came to Bike Camp.

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While we’re working on our Radavist spring merch drop, we re-upped our best-selling Cactivist socks.

New Mexico is home to a plethora of succulents and cacti. Two of our favorites are the New Mexico Agave Century Plant (Agavaceae neomexicana) and Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens). If you’ve ever seen either one bloom, you know why we get so freaking excited about them. Each pair comes with (1) ocotillo and (1) agave illustration. And there’s a roadrunner (NM state bird) on the sole for good luck :)

Specs:

• 7″ cuff length
• Recover merino wool 60/40 blend, processed in Spain and/or North Carolina and knit in the USA
• These are slightly thicker in the best way than our previous summer weight socks
• Unisex fit: MD fits W7-10 and M6-9; LG fits W10-13 and M9-12.5

These are back in stock and shipping from Santa Fe from The Radavist Webshop.

Read on for The Radavist’s Top Ten Articles of 2024, ranked in ascending order and based on views. We’re more than just Beautiful Bicycles over here; year after year, the articles that our authors publish draw the biggest crowds. From our Dust-Up op-eds to the first look at brands’ future showcases, clever hacks, and new this year, our Radavist Documentary brought in the page views. As we look back across twelve months of content, ten articles in particular stand out.

If you’re looking to gift some of our Winter Merch this year for the holidays, your last opportunity to buy some with a Christmas delivery is the end of the day, Monday, December 16th. As always, we thank you for your support! Every cent from our merch sales goes to running this website and paying our authors.

Check out the full merch drop at The Radavist Webshop.