We’re Russ Roca and Laura Crawford. Back in 2009, we took a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and sold everything we owned to travel by bike. We blogged our way across the US and New Zealand for nearly three years and have found our home in the bike world ever since.

There’s an entrenched idea that hard and fast is the only way to ride a bike, and we don’t buy it. We ride for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with placing onto a podium, and we know we’re not alone. In 2020, we coined the term PARTYPACE, because being at the back of the pack doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wishing you were at the front - maybe, like us, you’re not in a hurry to get to the end because you’re actually enjoying the middle.

Sometimes we marvel at the winding path that brought us to where we are today. As two people who don’t look like or ride like industry-backed cyclists, we know the bike world can be off-putting. We also know there are a lot of good people doing the work to make space for all of us to ride our own rides and enjoy it. Thanks for joining us and say hi if you ever see us out on a ride.

Learn more about our backstory by reading our Essential Posts.

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