Back for its eighth installment, it’s time for another Stoked Spoke Series!! Stoked Spoke is a series of bicycling adventure presentations hosted in-person by members of the community. In observance of these dark, wet, cold winter days, this series is intended to bring our community together and inspire your next adventure.
Each evening highlights four to six self-supported bike camping routes complete with maps, slideshow and planning tips. We are dedicating February to adventure tales by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). This year Stoked Spoke is being hosted in Seattle, WA and in Denver, CO by our friends at Treehouse Cyclery. We’ll be publishing a summary of each Stoked Spoke event on our blog, including route summaries and digital maps.
Seattle Weds MAR 27th
Doors open at 6:30pm
Presentations 7pm-9pm
Tickets: $5 a person. Sold at the door!
We’ll be accepting donations of gear on behalf of Facing Homelessness. For a list of supplies and gear that we’ll be accepting look here.
Seattle’s March presenters include:
Everet O’Cillin
Route: https://ridewithgps.
Iceland is a landscape in perpetual transition. A land of fire and ice where the weather plays its own mercurial character in the physical and cultural landscape. I dreamed up this tour with a plan to head out in Summer 2022. Planning this trip gave me the unique opportunity to create an experience of Iceland using two of my favorite means of engaging with the world, art and cycling. My route was inspired by Roni Horn’s Library of Water, Vatnasafn, an immersive art installation and collective self portrait that houses core samples collected from Iceland’s five major glaciers. The route connected sections of the Iceland Divide, Westfjords Way, The Witch of the West and the South East Coast on as many trails and gravel roads as possible linking every museum, gallery, and cultural site I could find. But at the time of my scheduled departure I could barely walk, let alone ride a bike. I spent the following year healing from a traumatic pelvic fracture that left me in a wheelchair, but my doctors were optimistic. One year later I was on a plane headed for Reykjavik. Delaying the trip meant that my friend Tessa Hulls would be able to join me, adding an element of mutual softness to the tour that neither of us had ever really allowed ourselves before as endurance solo travelers. I spent three months embedded in awe of the Icelandic landscape and began to empathize with its dramatic geology, the landscape of my own body cracked open and reshaped so many times over. There is a comfort to be found in seeing the broken earth of my body mirrored in the land around me. So many aspects of my own body, my gender, my identity felt in alignment with the cultural and geological story of Iceland. A body of land strategically domesticated yet seemingly wild. A country that occupies a larger space in the human imagination than it does on a map.
Route: https://ridewithgps.
Denver Friday Mar 29th
Doors open at 6:30pm
Presentations 7pm-9pm
Tickets: $10 a person. Sold at the door!
Denver’s March presenters include:
