Melanie Clancy

I am always drawn to amazing ‘what if?’ questions that ideas spring from. What if a bike could show us what it’s like to live with MS? What if people living with 31 days of darkness could get a taste of sunlight? What if a vending machine could break down barriers between two nations? My favourite ‘what if?’ question goes back to 2007. During that time, almost 90 million people worldwide did not have access to safe and clean drinking water.

N+1 1 of 8 You were looking for an excuse to get a new bike and voila! Here comes gravel to give you a good reason. Sure, some road bikes can handle a 28 mm tire with a knobbier tread, but what a waste when there are so many cool new gravel-specific bikes on the market from your favorite manufacturers.

In 1971, the father of world championship mountain biker and ultra-endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. He was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. More than 45 years later, Rusch set out to ride over 1,200 miles along the Ho Chi Minh Trail—through the dense jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia—in single-minded pursuit of arriving at the crash site on the anniversary of the day he disappeared.