Built by someone who lived the fade.

It started in 2012, on the Oregon coast, riding next to a politician who was campaigning by bike.

Sasha kept riding. The road carried him to San Francisco, then on to Yosemite, and somewhere along the way a short ride became an obsession. He wanted to know what it would feel like to let a bicycle set the pace of his life.

He spent the next two years saving. In 2014, he finally left for the tour he had been planning: nine months on the road, from Portland to the Mexico/Guatemala border. There were long days, bad weather, generous strangers, and the ordinary details that make a trip yours. It was the best thing he'd ever done.

Then he flew home. The route lived in a GPS file. The words were in scattered notes. Photos spread across hard drives, and the receipts went into a box. Within a year, the trip was already fading—not because it wasn't important, but because there was no place built to hold all of it together.

Sasha spent years building that place. Open Road Cyclist is a tour journal for the parts of a trip that matter: the route, the days, the photos, the gear, and the words. It is built for tourists, by a tourist, so the story can stay connected after the riding ends.