Burger joined Campfire Cycling in the summer of 2024, bringing a wealth of bikepacking experience and a deep passion for making cycling more accessible. As a devoted bike commuter, they’ve navigated the intense streets of New York City, the rural landscapes of Montana, and now the choppy, flavorful roads of Tucson. Burger spends many weekends bikepacking through Patagonia and other surrounding Tucson regions and several times a year, they venture out on bigger adventures like the Monumental Loop and Pinyons and Pines. Eventually they aspire to ride the Oregon Trail route, the Highland Trail in Scotland, the Baja Divide, and eventually the Tour Divide.
With a decade of experience in outdoor guiding and education, Burger has honed their skills in logistics, operations, and wilderness education. They’ve guided 30-day self-supported wilderness trips, developed environmental education curricula, and provided diversity and inclusion training focused on trans competency and racial justice. Their background also includes extensive volunteer work with bike co-ops in Tucson and New York, where they’ve gained deep knowledge of bicycle components, gear, and mechanics. At Campfire Cycling, Burger supports both our shop and e-commerce operations, assisting customers in finding the perfect gear and handling order fulfillment with efficiency and care. Committed to fostering an inclusive cycling community, especially for marginalized individuals, Burger’s blend of technical expertise, community involvement, and a deep love for cycling makes them a perfect fit for the Campfire Cycling family.
Introducing…Sansa! – February. 10, 2025
Anyone who has ever known and loved a pitbull-ish dog knows they all have the same two goals: be warm, and invade everyone’s personal space as much as possible. Sansa gets both while wearing my favorite jacket on a crisp cold night in Tucson!
Chasing Shade and Water – February. 03, 2025
It’s heating up again and it feels too soon!! For me anything over 70° is already too hot, and our week in the 80’s is reminding me how important it is to get to the lakes and rivers just a few hours away from Tucson.
Beaches, Bikes, and Breaching Whales – January. 27, 2025
I’m not the best photographer in the world, but here’s another snapshot of what the entire east side of the Baja Cape Loop looks like – turquoise water, deep sandy beaches and our little bicycles!! This is where we saw a whole pod of whales breaching while we played hot dice (aka Farkle) in the sun.
A Baja Divide Tidbit – January. 20, 2025
Two weeks in Baja was full of challenging terrain, beautiful mountains, turquoise bays and lots of laughter – too much to cram into a tidbit. We cooked over fires every night, and ate enough Spam and bagged refried beans to last a lifetime. I’m super grateful for my friends who shared the 250 mile adventure with me and for all the locals there who were extremely patient with my horrible Spanish skills, and of course grateful for my adventure bike!
MacGyvering my way to the Baja Divide – December. 30, 2025
After nearly destroying my room in the process of finding my gear after never really finishing moving houses, here is my Crust Evasion in mostly-complete Baja mode. A mix of Roadrunner, Oveja Negra, and Revelate bags fit everything I need + some extra space for tacos, and I’m hoping my 26×3 setup gets me through the sand pits. I’ll report back on the other side in 2 weeks.
Thank you Spencer for helping me mount some stubborn tires and letting me borrow your bags!!! And thank you Brian at Vargo for the tester tent!!
Custom build day!! – December. 16, 2024
This was my first frame-up build for a customer – we picked out all the components and now Jake gets to build it 🙂 I’m super stoked for our Disc Trucker customer to come ride it IRL later this month!!
Happy Global Fat Bike Week! – December. 9, 2024
As cool as it might be to ride fast bikes fast, it’s kind of more fun to ride fat bikes slow. The tires absorb so much of the chatter and chunk, an inevitable part of bicycle riding in the southwest. It’s like riding your every own personal monster truck – carefully chosen lines? Who needs it! You can roll and stomp your way through just about anything on a fat bike, and what better time to celebrate then International Fat Bike week. To be honest there’s also something deeply satisfying about blowing past a skinny-tire road bike on a 35 pound fat bike.
Desert Leaves, Dynaplugs, and Birthday Cheers – December. 2, 2024
Tucked back in a gully after 9 bumpy chunky miles of messed up double track lies a cottonwood forest surrounded by cliffs. Some friends and I went on a journey to where you can still smell the wet earth, walk along the river bed, and get enveloped by dense shade and massive maple leaves.
It’s such a treat to see changing leaves in the desert, and well worth the battle up punchy rocky hills to celebrate our friends birthday. I also experienced my first tubeless tire puncture, and am so grateful to have had a friend carrying Dynaplug, which I’m now convinced is the best tubeless repair kit out there. Happy birthday Blix!! Thanks for the adventure.
Return of Jojo the Shop Dog – November. 25, 2024
We’ve been blessed with a tiny special guest all week! JoJo loves being a shop dog – he’s obsessed with people (mostly Toby) and his favorite activity is being carried in a backpack while his human steed rides a bike. Come say hi to our smallest employee!
A Northern Gal’s Riding Weather – November. 18, 2024
The weather’s turning colder and the days are getting shorter – my favorite time of year! Crisp dark mornings are perfect for riding bikes before a work day, and long clear nights are made for sleeping under the stars.
As a northern gal I will always prefer the cold – I love the way it sharpens your senses and makes you feel alive, draws people together around fires and kitchen tables, and of course requires an intricate and potentially very cute layering system to cover all the activities of the day. I’m happy to trade in my summer shorts for pants for (hopefully) the next couple of months.
Ironwood Adventure: Starry Nights and Million-Armed Saguaros – November. 11, 2024
What an amazing turnout for our Ironwood Adventure!! Thank you everyone for accidentally mountain biking on rigid bikes and suffering together – we cranked out 49 miles of chonky trails on bikes ranging from 80’s rigid mountain bikes to hard tail fat bikes and everything in between.
We slept under the stars, shared snacks, looked at some freaky million arm saguaros, sat around a fire, and ate lots of Nerd Clusters. Huge shout-out to our trail angel Mando for stashing a ton of water and beverages at the camp spot!! And a big thanks to old friends and new for coming on a silly adventure.
Camping up Ol’ Mount Lemmon – November. 04, 2024
It’s finally cold enough to cozy up around the fire and wake up with frost on your sleeping bag! Mount Lemmon is home to the classic Dirty Lemmon route as well as some really beautiful campsites. We found a big clear group site to hang out at to celebrate each other and soften the particularly contentious night in US politics.
Tucson Alleybat – October. 28, 2024
Our second annual Halloween alleycat (Alleybat) this weekend was a big rowdy success – nearly 200 Tucsonians showed up decked out in costumes ready to race around our little town and play our silly games for made up points and real prizes. People played in a bike part casino, rode around a hazardous musical chairs slip and slide, sang troll karaoke, played trivia, raced up mountains, completed some naughty challenges, threw down for points, and so much more. We raised almost $2,000 for some really rad mutual aid projects providing free food and shelter to Tucson, the Tucson Food Share and Community Care Tucson! Not every alleycat is a fundraiser, but this one is, and we hope alleycat culture keeps building in Tucson.
Trading Heat for Mountain Pines – October. 21, 2024
With temperatures finally dropping (even just for a few days) you gotta take what you can get – a friend and I went up the mountain to relish in some fall colors and explore for a few hours in the cool forest.
Trading Heat for Mountain Pines – October. 14, 2024
I feel super lucky to live just a few hours from huge swaths of public lands, one of which is the Gila National Forest. The heat in Tucson has been relentless this year, but driving up a mountain solves that problem pretty quickly. It felt amazing to bike around forest roads in 70° unbothered by cars or crowds, and trade the smell of hot dust for the sharp scent of pine trees for a weekend. I’m a paranoid freak so whenever I adventure alone I bring bear spray just in case, just have to make sure not to grab it instead of my water by mistake.
My Vintage Beginnings in Tucson – October. 07, 2024
Throwback to when I first moved to Tucson and only had my Stumpjumper in single speed mode as a trail bike. It was kinda sketchy and it was before I knew about the wonder of tubeless setups, but miraculously I only got one flat. Vintage bikes can do it all, but should they ???