Adventure In a Box: Day 0 Essential Bike Touring Gear (bow n’ arrow, chess board, ect..) April 08 2014
We’re very pleased to bring you a new Field Trip installment from beautiful Maui. We sent Ryan Worcester a Weekender and he will be taking us along on his adventure around the island. He’ll be handling both the typing and camera work. We would be stoked if you read this and got inspired to buy a Fairdale, but to be entirely honest, we’d be even happier if we inspired you to get out there and take your own adventure. Ryan is a master of making do with what’s available and he’ll show us all how to travel without the stress of overthinking and over planning. Read on and enjoy the amazing images… Adventure In a Box by Ryan Worcester Day Zero. Everything starts somewhere, especially something that in hindsight you’d call an adventure. This particular journey started with a box. Two of them to be exact. The first one came in the form of a cardboard box (with the graphic of an animal that had the desire to say something important). Inside this box from Fairdale was a drop bar Weekender, and coupled with it came an opportunity to spend five days pedaling around Maui, Hawaii. An endeavor like this requires some supplies, hence the second box. Adventure in a box (well two). First things first, the bike had to be built. Pretty simple procedure, and gives you some time to get to know the bike. I was impressed with how well suited this bike was for what I was about to do, looked great, fit great and had really nice geometry for this kind of bike. After the obligatory first ride with some wrenches in your pocket to adjust this, tighten that etc. it was time to focus on the cargo. Every trip, however short, has with it a unique set of challenges, and supplies needed. As for the supplies, I think that living in today’s bright lights and flashing advertisement fear driven marketing escapade, it’s easy to think there are a million things that you absolutely need to have to go on an adventure. So we buy a bunch of things to do whatever it is that you want to do, then head out to do it stuffed to the gills with whatever they convince us that we absolutely need to do xyz, or we will suffer, or die, or we won’t fit in, or whatever angle it is they use, to make you think you can’t do something unless it is this way. Some of these things you buy can be incredibly useful. To go on a bike trip like this, a bike is obviously needed, and you could do a lot worse than the Fairdale Weekender in that department. As much as it would have been comforting to have high end waterproof saddlebags, and all the latest gear, gadgets and gizmos for a ride like this it would have probably cost me a couple thousand dollars I don’t have. So I was back to the “make […]
