hailey moore

based in boulder, co

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2025 Canyon Grizl Review

In her review of the 2025 Canyon Grizl, Hailey Moore discusses how this updated frameset fits into the growing bifurcation we’re seeing between race optimization and adventurability in the gravel bike category. Hailey also gives an in-depth take on why she thinks her review build—the Grizl CF 8 with ECLIPS—detracts from an otherwise impressive platform. These days it is not enough to label a bike as simply a gravel bike. The 3T Racemax² Italia and Trek CheckOUT are both technically capital “g”...
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Hailey’s Favorite Products, Rides, Experiences, and More From 2025

At the end of each year, The Radavist staff compile a list of their favorite products. Like last year, we’ve included our favorite products, rides, experiences, and more. Read on for Hailey’s list from 2025… This year has been a weird one for me, characterized by some strange and unfortunate bodily phenomena, and I spent less time riding than I have in any of the past seven years. In my recent Dust-Up about riding a Zwift trainer, I wrote about sustaining frostbite at the end of January. Althou...
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The Dust-Up: Why I Don’t Hate Riding Zwift

After sustaining a frostbite injury last winter, Hailey Moore started to lean into indoor cycling with Zwift. Follow along for her story of recovery, navigating the stigma around indoor cycling, and why she doesn’t hate riding Zwift… Every time I ride Zwift, I feel like I have to justify it with an excuse—”I don’t have much time,” “It’s dark outside,” “The weather is bad,” etc, etc. I see my friends do this too, usually followed by the seemingly requisite “I hate riding the trainer” caveat. Of...
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Wheels Manufacturing Shop Visit

Colorado-based Wheels Manufacturing has made parts that keep bikes on the road and trails for nearly 40 years. Hailey Moore takes a Shop Visit to the Wheels HQ and writes about the mind-boggling number of tools, components, and small bits and bobs that make Wheels Manufacturing an invaluable resource for shop mechanics and home tinkerers alike. A pair of posters hangs on the wall at the Wheels Manufacturing headquarters in Louisville, Colorado. Like a naturalist’s collection of specimens, the p...
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What’s Next for Adventure Cycling Association?

If you’ve been following the trajectory of Adventure Cycling Association, it’s no secret that the non-profit has been facing challenges, including significant membership decline, underfunding, and a messaging crisis. Hailey Moore takes a deep dive into unraveling ACA’s current precarity, talking with several individuals close to the organization including the new Executive Director, a former ACA cartographer, and two experienced adventure cyclists. On June 25, 2025, Adventure Cycling Associatio...
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Cannondale Topstone 2025 Review: (Still) A Conversation Piece

Whether you are a longtime Cannondale fan or Lefty hater, you’re likely to have an opinion about the Topstone. After getting acquainted with the brand’s polarizing all-around off-road model, Hailey Moore shares her review of the 2025 Topstone Carbon with the updated Lefty Oliver fork. I don’t think it’s a hot take to say that Cannondale is firmly established in the camp of mainstream bike brands. But, given their widespread popularity and commercial success across the industry, it is interestin...
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Not a Review: Why the Otso Voytek 2 Is My N+1 Bike

Despite her fat-bike ambitions, winter did not go as planned for Hailey Moore. Read on for how she managed to salvage her time with a loaner Otso Voytek 2 with a spring side quest to Moab. I was never supposed to write a review of Otso Cycles’ fat bike, the Voytek 2. I was, however, supposed to ride it on snow. When Otso super-homie Kurt (aka the marketing director for both Otso and Wolf Tooth) sent me a Voytek 2 at the start of winter, the plan was for me to put the bike through its paces at a...
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Treehouse Cyclery Moves to Boulder: Are Bike Shops the New Third Place?

Are bike shops the new third place? After first opening its doors in Denver, Colorado, in 2023 Treehouse Cyclery recently moved to Boulder. Hailey Moore writes about the factors that influenced the owners’ decision to move and how Treehouse is serving its community, during and after hours. “Our plan was always to be in Boulder,” said Alyssa Gonzalez, just a few days after she and business partner Kolby Clements reopened their shop, Treehouse Cyclery, in (arguably) the cycling capital of Colorad...

Riding Mt. Blue Sky

There was fire in the air on the last day of July. The morning felt thick with haze from the three  Front Range blazes as I rolled my bike outside. Colorado has been lucky the last few years, but there’s always the chance that fire season will mar my otherwise favorite time to live here. At least the air doesn’t smell like smoke yet, I thought as I swung a leg over and pushed off. The day would be long and the air thin enough where I was headed: from my home in Boulder all the way up to the 14,0...
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Simple Cycling Maps Shop Visit

Simple Cycling Maps is a Boulder-based design duo that bring an impressive level of data, clarity, and art to their printed maps. In an age of high-resolution head units and mindless turn-by-turn queues, Simple Cycling Maps hope their maps can bring something different to the table. Read on for Hailey Moore‘s Simple Cycling Maps Shop Visit and chat with the founders. Nearly one hundred years ago, the English electrical draftsman Harry Beck designed a new Tube map for the London Underground syst...
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Slipstream AI: A New Route-Planning Tool for Gravel Cyclists

Gravel is an imprecise term and ideal tire-size debates on the internet for a given route can go deep in the comments section. Slipstream AI is a new route-planning tool that hopes to bring a little more objectivity to how we rate gravel technicality for drop-bar riding. Read on to learn more about how this application is leveraging artificial intelligence to improve gravel cyclists’ experiences. Raise your hand if you’ve ever gotten caught unintentionally underbiking on a new-to-you route. Rai...
Field Mag •

How (and Why) We Hiked Colorado's Highest Peak This Winter

Mount Elbert East Ridge Quick Stats Distance: 13.5 miles Elevation Gain: 5,000 ft Direction: East to West Average Time to Summit: 8 hours Season: Primarily hiked in warmer weather, but as long as you’re prepared, it is sublime in winter. “Be loyal to the winter, all the way through—all the way, and with sincerity—or you’ll find yourself high and dry, longing for a spring that’s a long way off, and winter will have abandoned you.” - author and environmental activist Rick Bass Since first re...
Ultra Running Magazine •

Ultra Rebuilding Effort: The Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival

“Ten weeks ago, was the storm. Nine weeks ago, we started planning.” These words were spoken by one of the organizers of the Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival (OFSEF) in early December and capture the ethos of the ultra-style event that sprang up in western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. A colonialist stronghold during the Revolutionary War and later a trading outpost, the town of Old Fort was once seen as a “gateway to the West” in the foothills of North Carolina’s Appalachian...
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What I Learned From My First Mountain Bike Race

Throughout 2024, Hailey Moore (in her own words) has been inching her way along the mountain biking learning curve. She recently rode the Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival and writes about what she learned from her first mountain bike race. In 2024, I decided to try to get better at mountain biking. As I’ve written previously, the idea started as a means to an end: I wanted to feel more confident riding technical terrain, at least insofar as the technical demands of the more backcountry single...
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Hailey’s Favorite Products, Rides, and More From 2024

To close out our editorial team’s favorites lists, Hailey Moore weighs in with her top products from the year, with a couple women’s-specific picks, and shares the rides, reads, tunes, and more that shaped her 2024. At the beginning of 2024, I wrote an Instagram post that outlined the new year’s goals that I was comfortable sharing with the internet world: “Read more books, ride my mountain bike, more calls with friends (instead of texts), get better at fixing things, cook good food (and stop...
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Cassiopeia Shop Visit: Boulder’s Female-Forward Cycling Cafe

You’ll find mostly women’s apparel hanging on the racks at Boulder’s newest cycling shop, Cassiopeia. Opened in late September, the “female-forward” store features boutique brands like Ostroy, Jelenew, and Fingerscrossed, and doubles as a cycling café and Velospa. Hailey Moore takes a shop visit to Cassiopeia to chat with owner Diana Freeman about the store’s unique business concept, find out what exactly is a Velospa, the membership model, and more! Tucked among high façades, across from elect...
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Otso Warakin Steel Review: A Gravel Bike That Cuts Through the Noise

The field of all-road and gravel bikes may seem crowded, but Otso Cycles always seems to add something new to the conversation with their bikes. In this review, Hailey Moore writes about what sets the Otso Warakin Steel apart among its off-road peers. If you’re a fan of Otso Cycles, Wolf Tooth Components’ Minnesota-based sister bike brand, then you know that all Otso bikes are just a little different. And – in defiance of my southern roots that would have me use “different” as polite euphemism –...
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Red Bull Rampage 2024: The Women Have (Finally) Arrived

Today we’re detouring into the gravity space in the lead-up to the 2024 Red Bull Rampage, the first edition of the event that will feature a women’s category. Hailey Moore shares a brief history of high-profile freeride mountain bike event and how a few of the women involved are thinking about this long-awaited milestone. Later this week, Red Bull will host its iconic freeride mountain bike event, the 2024 Red Bull Rampage, in the desert surrounding Virgin, Utah. Since its 2001 inception, the co...
Passenger •

Travel by Bike: Tips For Bikepacking and Cycle Touring

Bikepacking is and does what it says on the tin. Backpacking on two-wheels, with bags strapped to your bike rather than your… back. A multi-day cycle trip carrying minimal gear and sleeping rough along the route in pursuit of good times found from the saddle. Passenger Ambassador, Hailey Moore is here to give the lowdown on route setting, equipment gathering and space-saving packing tips. She’s worn down tred the world over and has (saddle) bags of experience and a good few stories from the road...
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