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WORDS & PHOTOS: Kansas Waugh
Wedding weekends are guaranteed fun. If you're not having a blast at one moment on the trip, you definitely will later. Sometimes you're lucky enough to be celebrating loved ones with lots of friends and everything is perfect, including the place. I had such luck this summer when I traveled to San Diego to celebrate a marvelous pair of friends, and since there was ample time for riding, I brought along the sled.
Anyone out there a skateboarding fan? I know that we have more than a few customers that have come from the sport. Aging superstars in their own rights. We might even go so far as to consider the Rapha Continental somewhat of a tongue in cheek play on that concept. Show up somewhere new, ride the area, shoot it, and then begone with yourselves. The perfect combination of travel and brotherhood. Riding with your friends to ride with your friends. So, it made sense to get skate photographer Jon Humphries in on that action.
Video pal Dave Christenson is out on the road again with Apolis This time their wild and crazy adventures have taken them to Vietnam. Where it looks like in-between video takes Mr. Christenson has been riding his Rapha-Condor road bike in new and beautiful country.
This summer the Rapha Continental has been attending a handful of organized rides and events and last weekend we rode the Oregon EchelonFondo. A ride that is close to home, Hood River, OR, and a ride that would see Chris Horner - Team RadioShack as guest rider.
Photographs: Jake Stangel & Brian Vernor
I've been living in Oregon for 2+ years now, Hott Sam grew up here, Hahn & Aaron only live 2 hours away from this state, and for a week we/the Continental rode through areas of Oregon and Washington that none of us have ever been.
words by Tony Pereira
photos by Brian Vernor
I grew up riding my BMX bike on fire roads and trails in New England which quickly turned into mountain biking. Now, I don't know if you know this, but there is an old tradition among mountain bikers of mocking roadie counterparts. It is not nice, sure, but it is mostly in jest and for years I've joined in the fun taking jabs at my skinny tire riding buddies with a nudge, wink and a chuckle. Then I moved to Portland, Oregon.
What is the one thing that you do not want to worry about when you are descending at 50 miles per hour, or trusting your lean on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere? Your tires.
Last month the Rapha Continental toiled their way up and over the Rocky Mountains as they rode Ride the Rockies, spending long days on the bike. Even with the hundreds of miles that they put in going up and over the mountain passes, they still found the time to sample a few sections of gravel, with one being 60 miles long that dropped them into Pagosa Springs.
