Introducing Booster!

Making her international debut, meet Booster! She’s a green, mean fighting machine—though not a lean machine by any means. A chunky 70 pounds fully loaded, not including food. But she’s a beautiful, headstrong creature and I’m in love with her.

She’s a 2021 Salsa Rangefinder Deore, size large and in charge, with 29” wheels and a 12-speed cassette with the biggest damn granny gear I could find. Big beefy shocks, fat-ass Surly Extraterrestrial tires, soft gushy grips on the Jones H-Bar. Said handlebar has two feedbags (water bottle and peanut M&Ms), a Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt for GPS, a phone mount for backup GPS, and a gorgeous Bedrock handlebar bag in Blaze Orange.

On the opposite end I added a Tumbleweed rear rack and two gear cages, to mount my heavy-duty twenty-liter drybag and twin eight-liter drybags. The frame bag adds another nine liters, so with the thirteen liters from the Bedrock bag I’ve got enough storage to sustain an adventure over just about any distance, in just about any weather.

I named her Booster because she’s going to get me away from covid. She and I are getting the hell off the grid, and we will stay there as long as we can. In the meantime, if the rest of y’all would just please cure covid, that would be lovely.