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DRAGON BLOOD TRAIL (Copy)

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SECOND WIND (Copy)

Bee Wild Bee Free (Copy)

MALECOSTE (Copy)

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BIKEPACKING SIBILLINI (Copy)

THE WOLF'S LAIR 2.0 (Copy)

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ICELAND DIVIDE (Copy)

ALTA VIA DEI MONTI LIGURI (Copy)

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SWAMP THING TRAIL (Copy)

BRUSCHETTA LOOP (Copy)

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“If there ever is a Colorado Trail, it will likely be because Gudy Gaskill hasn’t given up.” - Ed Quillen, 1984.

Riding the Colorado Trail, it’s hard not to think of Gudy Gaskill, the “Mother of the Colorado Trail,&rdqu

We knew the Colorado Trail would be hard. What we didn’t expect was how much it would change the way we approached the trip.

Our GPS recorded 860 kilometers (534 miles) and 22,260 meters (73,030 feet) of climbing across the Rockies, with much

Last light on the ridges that built us; rock, wind, and miles. This is where Montanus was born, and we came back up here to say goodbye to our mountains.

They’ve always been our natural playground, our foundation, our inspiration. Now we carry

Driven by the passion for exploration and bikepacking, Giorgio sketched, cut, and handcrafted a custom frame bag and a front rack bag designed specifically around the new Kona Unity.

Big respect to @konabikes for building such a unique and extreme b

Some trails aren’t found. They’re built.

Not just with tools, but with trust. Through long days, dirt-stained, calloused hands, shared effort, and the kind of friendship that’s forged one strike, one fallen tree, and one laugh at a

Breakfast with Gran Sasso in front of us, a reminder of where it all started and why we always come back, no matter how far we go. This land shaped us and it’s our home; from this base camp we roll out again toward the rest of the world, carryi

Raw memories out of the backyard.

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Our last overnighter on Gran Sasso, where we unexpectedly rode trails crossed by several avalanches, also became the perfect testing ground for a new bikepacking setup.

For this ride, we reworked the load distribution on the Unit X by @konabikes (wi

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