words by Tyler Cohen
MEMORY BIKE ADVENTURE WAS BOTH incredibly rewarding and wildly more challenging that I expected. On paper, riding a bike over 450 miles with 66,000 feet of climbing in one go seems ambitious but not unreasonable to an experienced cyclist. In reality, doing so amid sweltering heat and humidity, with unexpected and violent thunderstorms, in a foreign country and on loose, gravel grades that regularly pitch above 22-percent proved to be at the farthest limits of my ability. Not to mention we rode loaded mountain bikes on minimal sleep.