hailey moore

based in boulder, co

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Ticket to Ride: How Albion Balances Sustainability and Performance in Their Cycling Apparel

Since Albion Cycling was founded in 2016, the UK-based apparel brand has made its niche in adventure cycling and bikepacking. But this specialization goes beyond designing the next pair of cargo bibshorts and a jersey with more burrito pockets. Indeed, the ethos of bike-travel has shaped Albion’s business model as a whole. Their design embraces bikepacking’s abuse-resistant-yet-minimalist gear mandates; their product development strives to be low-impact with the use of traceable, sustainable mat...
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Inside Raide’s Unapologetic Ethos of Performance at Any Cost

Siegel says working with athletes on design pushes him into a detective role. How athletes articulate the problems they experience with a product and the potential design solutions often requires translation. Until you know that cars exist, you might just keep asking for a faster horse. For her debut at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, ski mountaineering athlete Anna Gibson needed a fast car. While testing packs ahead of the events, she'd tape her back to alleviate rubbing where her ski bind...
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The Coffee Ride Shop Visit: Do Good (With Coffee)

The Coffee Ride has ridden over 30,000 miles delivering coffee by bike. Since founding the business in 2014, owner Josh Crane has continued to push the envelope for using the business as a tool do to good, coffee is just the vehicle. Read on for Hailey Moore‘s shop visit to The Coffee Ride and an in-depth look at a small business that’s never content to coast. “Coffee’s not really my passion,” said Josh Crane on a recent breezy spring morning, the sky turbid with a thin cloud layer, Boulder’s d...
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Re:Public: How a Non-Profit Newsroom Is Reclaiming Public Lands Coverage

America’s public lands are facing more threats now than ever, but most newsrooms are too strapped to dedicate the resources that this beat deserves. Re:Public is on a mission to change that. Hailey Moore writes about Re:Public’s non-profit approach to journalism after talking with Re:Public founder and former Outside Editor-in-Chief, Chris Keyes. What’s the highest you’ve ever counted? Maybe to one thousand? When I was in middle school and just beginning to learn French, I would practice my pro...
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Mosaic Cycles Shop Visit: Searching for the New American Handmade

Known for the way it blends classic fabrication techniques with modern finish work, Mosaic Cycles is a titanium maker of custom-order and batch-built bikes in Boulder, Colorado. Hailey Moore pays a Shop Visit to the Mosaic Cycles HQ and sits down for a Q&A with Mosaic’s founder, Aaron Barchek, and head of Marketing & Sales, Mark Currie. There are two sets of heavily lugged, large tires resting against the building that houses Mosaic Cycles’ fabrication headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. But the...
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The Messy Debate Continues Over Adventure Cycling Association’s Proposed Building Sale

On Tuesday January 20, 2026, Adventure Cycling Association’s member-voting period over the proposed building sale of its historic Missoula-based headquarters will come to a close. Only, this isn’t the first time members have voted on the issue. Following up on her previous reportage, Hailey Moore shares views from both sides of the debate, and writes about why some influential members, including ACA’s four founders, have banded together in opposition to the sale. In the six-month lead-up to the...
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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...
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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...
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