Pinion Stories
Worldwide bike tour becomes a nomadic cycling lifestyle
Pinion riders Ben and Linda from XPLORid will be back on the road in Europe in mid-2024. Their 38,000 km journey around the world through Europe, North and Central America was recently documented. "Our journey so far" is the title of the 20-minute film.
BELÉNS FIRST SOLO OVERNIGHTER
Belén and Tristan are professional adventurers, bikepacking photographers and Pinion Ambassadors. The couple usually travel together and explore numerous countries by bike. Here they are on tour with a Tout Terrain Outback Explore 29 with a Pinion C 1.12 gearbox.
From Patagonia to Canada in 21 months
Katja Noergaard Hansen 34 years og Martin Lohmann Moeller 42 years are from Denmark. This is the first big trip for Katja who had never slept in a tent before she met Martin 5 years ago. Together they cycled from the tip of Argentina to Vancouver Canada a journey of 22.600 kilometers through 15 countries and it took them 21 months to complete.
Show us your dream route
Udo and his buddy Lothar didn't wait any longer, they turned their dream into reality in the summer of 2023. They grabbed their Pinion bikes and circled the entire Baltic Sea. What an adventure!
BIKEPACKING ADVENTURE DELUXE
The San José del PacÃfico Grand Dirt Tour is a 6-day bikeroute with the starting and ending in Oaxaca, capital of the state of Mexico and beautifully located mountain town. Anyone who has ever been to Mexico knows that the country is incredibly versatile - predestined for bike touring.
The jury of several members, including journalists from relevant cycling magazines and experts from the cycling industry, evaluated a wide variety of aspects.
On bike adventure through the Rockies – an experience from Canada
Guy Stuart is a Canadian and an enthusiastic adventure biker. On his custom-made Pinion bike - equipped with a C1.12 Pinion transmission - from the titanium forge RollingDale Cycle, he had covered around 10,000 kilometers by the end of last year.
The conditions in the Rocky Mountains could not have been more different, whether in terms of surface (stones, gravel, meadow, asphalt, ice, snow, etc.) or outside temperature.
Deep insights in new video from Tristan & Bélen
At the end of September, the two Pinion riders Tristan Bogaard & Bélen Castelló were with us in Denkendorf as part of their "Factory Tour".
How many steps does it take to hold a finished Pinion gearbox in your hands? What does the test bench look like? How does an oil change work? What other developments are in store for the future?
Pinion riders Simon and Nacho in “The Land of the Shirampari”
Pinion riders Simon and Nacho recently produced an exclusive documentary about their last big cycling tour. "The Land of the Shirampari" is the title of the 30-minute film.
Cycling on the Balearic islands
Tristan and Belén set out to create a bikepacking route across the four biggest Balearic Islands Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca and Menorca, and call it the TransBaleares!
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