gMack in Olympic National Park rain gear article
We decided to go in the middle of winter along the Quinault River and found nothing but sunshine for our 3-day tour.
Here's a quote from the author Scott McCredie: "Ben, a software designer and avid two-wheeler, had agreed to help test out gear with me, along with photographer Gregg Bleakney and his buddy Greg McCormack, a well-traveled naturalist.
Between them, the two Greg(g)s had logged hundreds of miles of rainy days in their cycling portfolios. On separate trips, they had bicycled from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego, and together had traversed the length of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline."
gMack in photo of article “Traveling with a Bicycle”
We did not pay a dime to travel overseas with Singapore Airlines. A bike is included as one of your checked bags.
Traveling from South Korea to Indochina was a bit more complicated, particularly because we wanted to see so much of Vietnam.
McCormack and photographer Bleakney had to keep the same box for numerous flight and bus legs through China, Vietnam, Cambodia and back through South Korea before flying back to the States.
The only draw-back of the free baggage was that the bike box had to be under 22 kilos or less than 50 pounds. That left lots of un-utilized space in the box. A bike with racks and water bottle mounts and tools weighs over 40 pounds.
Salsa Cycles uses gMack in two advert campaigns
These two images were used in Salsa Cycles online advertising campaign on their homepage and for the "Vaya" road adventure bike.
Cycling partner Gregg Bleakney shot the image below while standing on the upper part of the Sucheunggyeo Bridge. You can see gMack straddling his bike and looking at the rocky beach on the west shoreline of Ulleungdo Island.
gMack in Salsa Cycles “Fargo” Advertising Campaign
The last two years I've been using a durable and dependable touring bicycle called the Salsa Fargo.
My cycling partner, Gregg Bleakney took this photograph in Vietnam. Obviously my attention was on the bucolic scene of lazing, cud-chewing water buffalo.
I like how the advertisement encapsulated in one word the ineffable qualities, the lure! of foreign travel. I am psyched this ended up in a major advertising campaign by Salsa Cycles.
Below is a more recent photo of my fully loaded Salsa Fargo leaning up against cut logs in Central Washington.
