OWN THE APRES
DISCOVER THE OUTFLOW
Designed Through Adventure
Pushing beyond the outer edge requires total commitment and attention to every detail. From the Coast Mountains of Squamish, Canada, 7mesh designs through adventure to create unsurpassed alpine-grade bike gear for road, mountain and gravel riding.
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RACING THE TRANSATLANTIC WAY
When he checked the weather report in the final few days before departing for 2017’s TransAtlantic Way Race – a 2500km a single stage self-supported road bike ride between Dublin and Cork via The Wild Atlantic Way – Björn Lenhard wondered what on earth he’d let himself in for. “I was like, ‘Oh Jesus, what have you done now?” Why did you register?’” he says with a bemused smile.
FOLLOWING THE GOONIES
For a certain generation, few films hold the enduring appeal of The Goonies. 7mesh contributor Pete Harrington recently moved from London to Portland in the Pacific Northwest, and once there, it didn’t take him long to realise that Astoria, home of Mikey’s house and a hundred other scenes from the film, is an actual real-life port city only 80 miles away on the Oregon Coast. He had to ride it.
TROUBLE ON THE SILK ROAD
In the distance, a dog barked. For the riders slumped on the ground, the sound barely registered. “We honestly thought we wouldn’t make it out of that swamp,” says Silk Road race entrant Pierre-Arnaud Le Magnan, Skyping in from his home in Hong Kong after completing August’s unsupported, single-stage cycling race through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, one of only 29 finishers out of 95 starters