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Plus, the venn diagram of CW: I know you mostly worked this when I was a kid.” Though we what makes a good touring bike and from home during your time in Salt loved Utah, an opportunity came up a good commuting bike is nearly a Lake City, but you did get a chance with Adventure Cycling Association circle. Rack mounts, bigger tires, to ride to various establishments to in Missoula to work on their member fenders, comfortable riding position, shop, eat, etc. How does riding in magazine Adventure Cyclist, which an eye toward safety? These are all Missoula compare to Salt Lake City? pulled us back to Montana. features that appeal to everyone from Alex Strickland on his winter Missoula, Montana commuter bike. Photo by half-mile commuters to million-mile A.S.: Downtown Salt Lake is Dan Meyer CW: Can you review a little travelers. way better. No offense to Missoula, about your position with Adventure but we’ve got a mash-up of crum- amazing. A few of us bought hand- Cycling Association? The ACA is CW: Tell me a little about why bling infrastructure and retrofits By Lou Melini me-downs from him and started rid- about bike travel but what can some- you commute? that aren’t quite right. Missoula has ing and racing a little. There was a one riding to work learn from your an amazing (and growing!) river- Alex Strickland is editor-in-chief great local race called the Tour de magazine and the ACA? A.S.: Full disclosure: when peo- front trail system that now links of Adventure Cyclist, published by Wolf and Gary Fisher and Tinker us to Hamilton, Montana, 50 miles ple are impressed by the fact that the Adventure Cycling Association Juarez would always compete and to the south. That’s an incredible A.S.: I’m the editor-in-chief of I commute year-round in Western (ACA). Adventure Cyclist is the best sign autographs and all. It was just asset, but chances are your commute Adventure Cycling’s member maga- Montana, I have to admit that I live bicycle travel magazine that is pub- the perfect time to bridge being a kid in Missoula relies on some surface zine, Adventure Cyclist. We publish less than a mile from the office. So lished in a print edition in my humble who rode bikes around town to being streets, which aren’t great. Salt Lake nine times per year for our 52,000 while -10° is cold, it’s not cold for opinion. ACA, based in Missoula, a “cyclist.” That played a role in has such an benefit in the super-wide members, which makes us one of long! Plus, I can ride home for lunch. Montana, the leading bicycle travel moving west to Missoula, Montana streets that allow for things like the the largest cycling mags in the coun- Just having an excuse to be outside a organization in the U.S., began by for college with its solid journal- separated lanes on 300 South or just try. We’re definitely focused on bike few times a day regardless of weather starting the Bikecentennial cross ism school and abundant singletrack. a little more elbow room in the lanes travel, whether that’s an overnight in is a pretty great mood-booster, and country tour (the organization also Eventually, after working for com- on streets like 800 S (I was lucky to Connecticut or a months-long epic since we’re often reviewing bikes had the same name then) in 1976 and peting newspapers in Montana, my live near Liberty Park). in Kazakhstan. Of course, not every- for Adventure Cyclist, it’s a chance by creating maps and tours. wife got into grad school in Salt one can take months off (including to spend a little extra seat time on Lake and we made the move to magazine editors…), and we know CW: Would you say that in gen- different rigs and a reason to take a Cycling West: Alex, it was great Utah where I worked for a small that other types of riding like com- circuitous route to the office. Continued on page 22 to meet you in person last summer PR agency (SOAR Communications) muting are a natural gateway to bike after years of exchanging emails. that represented the Sea Otter Classic Tell my readers a little about you. and Interbike, among other cycling industry clients. It was amazing to Alex Strickland: I grew up in land in the cycling industry and com- Reach Memphis, Tennessee — not exactly bine recreation with occupation. We a cycling hotbed (well, not in the helped out with the launch of NICA Cyclists in nineties, anyway) — and when I was in Utah and it was amazing to think of in middle school a friend’s neighbor how different those kids’ experience 8 Western was a sponsored mountain bike racer was vs.