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REI Co-op ADV 1.1 touring bike in fine shape. - $699 (san rafael)
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You can tackle mountain passes with a full load on the Co-op Cycles ADV 1.1 road-touring bike. It has an ultra-low gear option, custom rear rack, and a smooth-riding chromoly steel frame.
Consider for a moment the sort of bike you’d want for a long ride. Actually, a really long ride: Cairo to Cape Town. Nearly 7,000 miles through Sudan and Ethiopia, across the Nile and up the Simian Mountains, down to Tanzania and Botswana, past Mount Kilimanjaro, and beyond the Kalahari Desert. What would that bike look like? And if such a bike existed, where would you find it, and how much would it cost? At REI, it turns out, for $1,600.
That bike is the Co-op Cycles ADV 1.1. It’s the bike Katherine Haimann, a Washington D.C.-area civil engineer, used to complete the four-month-long, 6,972-mile Tour d’Afrique. It’s composed of 33.3 pounds of navy blue chromoly steel, 700c wheels with a pair of 38mm Schwalbe Marathon tires, a Shimano Deore drivetrain with bar-end shifters, hydraulic disc brakes, front and rear racks, and a forgiving WTB saddle. It’s the bike for the long haul, something REI has done for decades. So when Co-op’s design team (Co-op is REI’s house brand) created the ADV 1.1, it wanted to continue that legacy by giving the bike a reasonable price tag and the ability to accommodate a hundred pounds of gear.