Travel Via Gravel

Jefe.Bike Upgrades to Shopify 2.0
Jefe.Bike Upgrades to Shopify 2.0
We've been updating the site to make it compliant with Shopify's 2.0 framework and to clean up years of broken links!  If you see something, say something, we want to... Read more...
2026 Tour Divide / GDMBR Build Takes Shape
2026 Tour Divide / GDMBR Build Takes Shape
We've started our 2026 Tour Divide / GDMBR build!  Check out our choices of frameset, fork, rack, crankset, bottom bracket bearings, and brakes! Read more...
Top 5 Holiday Gifts For Your Favorite Gravel Rider or Bikepacker!
Top 5 Holiday Gifts For Your Favorite Gravel Rider or Bikepacker!
You're shopping for the bikepacker in your life. Your favorite blue dot, the one that mysteriously stops and then starts up again, why did they stop like that? You'll never... Read more...
Meaghan Hackinen Wins 2025 Silk Road Mountain Race with kLite
Meaghan Hackinen Wins 2025 Silk Road Mountain Race with kLite
Meaghan Hackinen Wins Silk Road Mountain Race with kLite August 24, 2025 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In a field that included the world's fastest ultra racers, Canada's Meg Hackinen placed 10th overall and... Read more...
Aero Bar Bike Computer / Lamp / Action Camera Comparison Table - Bikepacking, Gravel Racing, and Triathalon
Aero Bar Bike Computer / Lamp / Action Camera Comparison Table - Bikepacking, Gravel Racing, and Triathalon
By popular request, we have built out a quick comparison between the different aerobar computer and light mounts we have on the site. Our readers are always asking for more... Read more...
Bearclaw Holster 2025 Tour Divide Podium Finish: Jens Van Roost
Bearclaw Holster 2025 Tour Divide Podium Finish: Jens Van Roost
Jens Van Roost rides to a podium finish in the 2025 Tour Divide - protected by a Bearclaw Holster bear spray holder. Four bear encounters recorded! Read more...
kLite & Jefe Representation at the 2025 Tour Divide
kLite & Jefe Representation at the 2025 Tour Divide
kLite and jefe.bike are well represented in the 2025 Tour Divide! Check out our list of kLite riders from the "Rigs of the 2025 Tour Divide" articles. Read more...
We’ve Moved! - Jefe.bike
We’ve Moved!
We’ve moved our headquarters from the Indianapolis area to Providence, Rhode Island! Spending time this spring getting the feel for the local routes and weather patterns. Here are a few... Read more...
2025 - 5th Year - East Texas Showdown / Slowdown! - Jefe.bike
2025 - 5th Year - East Texas Showdown / Slowdown!
jefe.bike is a commercial sponsor of the 5th East Texas Showdown / Slowdown, one of the pre-eminent organized bikepacking events. Read more...
GDMBR - Tour of Western New Mexico: Hachita to Abiquiu - Jefe.bike
GDMBR Tour of Western New Mexico: Hachita to Abiquiu
GDMBR Tour of Western New Mexico: Hachita to Abiquiu GDMBR Tour of Western New Mexico: Hachita to Abiquiu. Check out the first days of the trip here. September!  I have... Read more...
Autumnal Equinox Ride - Jefe.bike
Autumnal Equinox Ride
Got up this morning around 5am and laid down around 75 miles and made it home before the rain started. Really beautiful this morning, nice and cool with no wind,... Read more...
Meaghan Hackinen is the first woman to finish the 2024 Tour Divide - Jefe.bike
Meaghan Hackinen is the first woman to finish the 2024 Tour Divide
Congrats to Meaghan Hackinen, the first woman to cross the line in the 2024 tour divide race. She covered the 2,700 mile distance in an amazing 15 days, 23 hours (15d:23h:00m).... Read more...
GDMBR - Tour of Western New Mexico - Day 1-2 - Jefe.bike
GDMBR Tour of Western New Mexico - Day 1-2
A brief pictorial summary of my first days on tour. Read more...
Blackfoot Angler, jefe.bike, and kLite Sponsor GDMBR Dynamo Parts Cache - Jefe.bike
Blackfoot Angler, jefe.bike, and kLite Sponsor GDMBR Dynamo Parts Cache
Back for year two! All this summer, Jefe.bike and kLite will be working with the Blackfoot Angler in Ovando, Montana to host a dynamo parts cache. If you're out of... Read more...
My 2024 GDMBR Tour Plans + Bike - Jefe.bike
My 2024 GDMBR Tour Plans + Bike
It's been a rather warm winter here in central Indiana, and I've logged a ton more on-the-road miles than I had expected at the beginning of the winter. The trainer... Read more...
Hacking the Tacx Neo Smart Bike for Off-Season Bikepacking Training - Jefe.bike
Hacking the Tacx Neo Smart Bike for Off-Season Bikepacking Training
A super boring description of my off-season training machine, hacked to geometrically emulate my bikepacking bike. It you’re keen on hacking your Tacx Neo Smart bike, read on! Read more...
Alexandera Houchin Sets Triple Crown SS FKT with kLite! - Jefe.bike
Alexandera Houchin Sets Triple Crown SS FKT with kLite!
Amazing performance from Alexandera Houchin in this year’s triple crown! Riding a Chumba TI single speed rig with a stock kLite system onboard, she crushed the fastest known times in... Read more...
Mounting the kLite Dual USB Charger in your Bike Cockpit - Jefe.bike
Mounting the kLite Dual USB Charger in your Bike Cockpit
Our product management team has come up with a bunch of new solutions to help you mount your kLite Dual USB charger in your bike cockpit!  We know that many... Read more...
2024 GDMBR / Tour Divide Initial Gear List & Build Kit - Jefe.bike
2024 GDMBR / Tour Divide Initial Gear List & Build Kit
After the disappointment finding cracks in my 2018 Salsa Fargo Ti frameset, I set out on a new adventure bike build. We're a distributor of Curve handlebars and bar tape,... Read more...
Cracked Ti frameset prompts gear introspection - Jefe.bike
Cracked Ti frameset prompts gear introspection
So it was a really busy April and then May and June got really quiet on the riding front. As you can see from the pictures, my Salsa Fargo Ti... Read more...
kLite and Blackfoot Angler (Ovando, MT) to Host Tour Divide / GDMBR Parts Cache - Jefe.bike
Tour Divide GDMBR Dynamo Parts Cache Ovando Montana, Sponsored by Jefe Bike and Blackfoot Angler
Blackfoot Angler, the renowned outdoor outfitter on the Tour Divide / GDMBR route in Ovando, Montana will host a cache of kLite parts for racers and riders. Sponsored by kLite... Read more...
Updated Cockpit - Jefe.bike
Updated Cockpit
An update to the ultimate bikepacking cockpit with a few new-to-Jefe items! Read more...
Reflections on the 2022 Tour Divide and my Initial Gear List - Jefe.bike
Reflections on the 2022 Tour Divide and my Initial Gear List
Ouch!  Mad respect to those that finished the TD this year, I wasn't one of them. My failure to complete the course, however, had nothing to do with my bike... Read more...
A 2,700-Mile Cycling Race Is Now Even More Extreme - NY Times - Jefe.bike
A 2,700-Mile Cycling Race Is Now Even More Extreme - NY Times
A fantastic article from the New York Times discussing the impact of Climate Change on the Tour Divide and profiling the weather-related challenges of this year's race. Read more...
TD Update 2 - Jefe.bike
TD Update 2
After a few days touring the highest elevations on the route (12,000+ft) I limped into Salida, Colorado. I’m going to re-assess my fitness from here. No mechanical issues, the bike... Read more...
2022 TD Update - Jefe.bike
2022 TD Update
Friday, June 22. Thought I’d do a quick update on the trip so far for my followers. Today I rode from Cuba New Mexico to Abiquiu lake and I’m staying... Read more...
Tour Divide 2022 - Details - Jefe.bike
Tour Divide 2022 - Details
I leave for Antelope Wells on Wednesday this week and will depart on Thursday June 16!  Here are some links for those that are following the race. Read more...
2022 Tour Divide Rig Glamour Shots - Jefe.bike
2022 Tour Divide Rig Glamour Shots
The 2022 "Rigs of the Tour Divide" submission! Read more...
Jefe Adds MaXalami Synthetic Tire Sealant and Two New Shutter Precision Hubsets - Jefe.bike
Jefe Adds MaXalami Synthetic Tire Sealant and Two New Shutter Precision Hubsets
May 2022 -- Jefe Velo LLC has added three new product lines to its growing line of nonpareil bikepacking gear. The online site has added MaXalami Wurstwasser synthetic tire sealant,... Read more...
East Texas Showdown / Slowdown - April 1, 2022 - Jefe.bike
East Texas Showdown / Slowdown - April 1, 2022
Enter the Bikes or Death East Texas Showdown / Slowdown Raffle for a chance to win $100 jefe.bike gift certificates and some superfly kLite cycling caps!  jefe velo is a... Read more...
Jefe Velo / jefe.bike Partners with Bikepacking Roots - Jefe.bike
Jefe Velo / jefe.bike Partners with Bikepacking Roots
Jefe Velo LLC / jefe.bike announces their partnership with non-profit organization Bikepacking Roots!  A portion of every sale at http://jefe.bike now goes to support their mission supporting and advancing the sport... Read more...
kLite Lights Up the Hurrican 300 Challenge - February 5/6 2022 - Jefe.bike
kLite Lights Up the Hurrican 300 Challenge - February 5/6 2022
We're following trackleaders very closely this weekend because at least 10 of the 70 entrants in the Hurrican 300 Challenge are rocking kLite in their race setups. This super-challenging 320 mile race... Read more...
Check out our ad in the Jan / Feb Adventure Cycling Magazine - Jefe.bike
Check out our ad in the Jan / Feb Adventure Cycling Magazine
Check out our advertisement in the January / February Adventure Cycling Magazine! Read more...
2022 Tour Divide Cockpit - Jefe.bike
2022 Tour Divide Cockpit
Glamour shots of my 2022 Tour Divide cockpit Read more...
2022 Tour Divide - Jefe Velo Gear List - Jefe.bike
2022 Tour Divide - Jefe Velo Gear List
OK, it looks very much like I'm going to ride the 2022 Tour Divide as an individual time trial, departing the third or fourth week of June. Six months out,... Read more...
Chain Doping Update - Jefe.bike
Chain Doping Update
Matt bores everyone with his preventative maintenance technique for bicycle chains, and opines on the benefits of Paraffin wax / Tungsten Disulfide suspensions. Read more...
One of Seven Project - The Ultimate Bikepacking Guide - Jefe.bike
One of Seven Project - The Ultimate Bikepacking Guide
If you haven't checked out the One of Seven Project website, the off season might be the time to do it--because you're going to need that much time to consume the mad... Read more...
Dynaplug Kit Saves My Day! - Jefe.bike
Dynaplug Kit Saves My Day!
Read about my recent experience with Dynaplug and how it allowed me to fix a flat in my tubeless tires less than 5 minutes--without removing the tire and inserting a... Read more...
Now accepting cryptocurrency ! - Jefe.bike
Now accepting cryptocurrency !
Responding to the many requests - jefe has gone crypto!  Trade your dogecoin and tether for kLite and Curve!   Read more...
kLite- and Voltaic-Powered Adventure Cockpit - Jefe.bike
kLite- and Voltaic-Powered Adventure Cockpit
I've had more than a few requests to talk through some of the pass-through charging configuration options open to kLite-ers when using the Voltaic battery line (e.g. V25, V50, V75)... Read more...
REMLAW Bars - The Flat Bar For Your Drop Bar Gravel / MTB Bike! - Jefe.bike
REMLAW Bars - The Flat Bar For Your Drop Bar Gravel / MTB Bike!
REMLAW Bars now available at jefe.bike - the perfect geometry-neutral conversion to flat bar for your drop bar MTB or Gravel Bike! Read more...
Now Stocking Adventure Hydration's Revolutionary Cranktank4 System! - Jefe.bike
Now Stocking Adventure Hydration's Revolutionary Cranktank4 System!
jefe.bike has partnered up with Australian manufacturer Adventure Hydration and is stocking their revolutionary Cranktank4 system. As seen on a number of this year's Tour Divide rigs, the Cranktank takes the... Read more...
Video Review: kLite ULTRA Gravel Kit - Jefe.bike
Video Review: kLite ULTRA Gravel Kit
Cole Ledbetter - of the Iowa Gravel Project - reviews the kLite ULTRA gravel kit after riding it 2,000 miles and in several gravel races. https://youtu.be/HekZx_2VfC4 Read more...
Cockpit Upgrade Day! - BarYak, Walmer, KLite - Jefe.bike
Cockpit Upgrade Day! - BarYak, Walmer, KLite
Cockpit Upgrade Day!  BarYak is the shizzle. Read more...
kLite Support for 2021 Tour Divide / Border to Border Classic - Jefe.bike
kLite Support for 2021 Tour Divide / Border to Border Classic
We wish you the best of luck in your respective races – the race against the clock, the race Vs. other participants, and most of all, the race against yourself... Read more...
kLite Launches “Minimalist” Charging Kit - Jefe.bike
kLite Launches “Minimalist” Charging Kit
Take a moment and appreciate the irony of a press release that promotes a “minimalist” product! Read more...
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kLite Racer Reports: 2021 Three Rivers Way Vista 300
Gripping reportage from kLite racer Eric Henderson! https://erichenderson1.blogspot.com/2021/05/vista300.html You need to read this race report - it has a great storyline and fantastic photos, it's like you're racing along with... Read more...
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jefe.bike Opens Second Warehouse - In Las Vegas
Today, jefe.bike announced the grand opening of a second product logistics center in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to being one of the most desirable post-pandemic places to visit,... Read more...
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Voltaic Systems - The Dynamo Optimized Battery Perfect for Bikepacking
When I head out on an off-the grid tour, I go with my kLite system, my dynamo wheelset, and two Voltaic units - one charged up and stored safely at... Read more...
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jefe.bike supports the "Bikes or Death" podcast - you should too!
Listen to our advertorial on "bikes or death" podcast--presented by OG Bikepacker Patrick Farnsworth! Read more...