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.
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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
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