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We’ve got an update from Madeline, and one thing is for certain: her Sunliner is covering miles and miles.

Madeline broke in her new Sunliner on a recent journey from Jasper to Banff. 200 miles through the Canadian Rockies, home to more glaciers than you can count. Her sister came along for this preparatory trek, which Madeline treated as her pre-divide training. This trip resulted in that all too familiar soreness settling back into her legs, and excitement for the adventure to come.

Then came the Great Divide, and the first week was full of nothing but surprises. Day one threw singletrack at her before she even knew whether she’d be on dirt or asphalt. She passed a grizzly at a respectful distance, a fair reminder of just how wild this route is, and turned down a lift to escape the big guy, trusting a little sense and some bear spray instead. Slowly the track eased into gravel forest service road and, post grizzly encounter, her confidence came back.

A few more days through Canada and she crossed into Montana, riding into heavy smoke and hoping for a bit of rain to give the burning lands some relief.

Through all of it, the Sunliner has been holding up like a charm on rough roads. That’s the whole point. A bike so dialed you can spend your energy on grizzlies and glaciers instead of your rig.

Give Madeline Hryse a follow to see where the divide takes her. The adventure is just getting started.

Nine wild days in Chile with Daniel Camp as he rides the last stretch of Pacific coast he’ll see before Argentina.

It started at sea level and climbed to the biggest altitude of his trip at 15,000 feet followed by four days through the Atacama, the driest place on earth outside the poles. The road was smooth and empty, and by his account, one of the most mentally taxing days he’s ever spent on his bike. The hours pass and it feels like you’ve gone nowhere. But he’s learned that beauty turns up in every place, mostly in the sunsets and star-filled skies.

The desert kept testing him. Eight liters of water down to nearly nothing before the next source. A stranger’s oasis with mate and fresh-baked bread. Then the Chilean Puna, five days of remote riding, hailstorms rolling in before noon, and lightning close enough to feel static in his hands and face. One night the police and rangers handed him a barn to wait it out. Another he dug a trench around his tent while thunder cracked overhead.

Then, after five days of pavement, he finally hit dirt. All dirt from there to the Bolivian border. Salt flats, hot springs he’d earned, and a smuggler’s route to shortcut the last miles.
That’s the kind of riding these bikes are built for.

Follow Daniel Camp for the next stop on his journey: entering into Bolivia.

A Gen 2 Stargazer in Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

Thanks to Guillermo R and his Bikecovery Channel crew for sharing these shots with us. We love seeing Tumbleweed bikes out in the wild!

All of our bikes are fundamentally designed from a blank sheet for off-road loaded touring, the Stargazer is no exception, it’s ready for any adventure big or small.

Happy summer riding!