Many Hands in the Mix: the 2020 Sierra Explorer by BTCHN Bikes

BY: CALIFORNIA TRAVIS  
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 

As with year’s past, we love featuring this Chico collaboration between Sierra Nevada, Paul Component, and a California-based frame builder. This year’s bike is stunning and with it comes a huge photo gallery documenting this beautiful build. Check the official press release below with all the juicy photos and read on to find out how you can win this bike!

The Sierra Explorer Bike is DONE, and YOU can win it!

When Sierra Nevada Brewery asked us to build them a bike to show off at the Sea Otter Classicthis year, we had to think long and hard. We put a serious amount of time and consideration into making components that are functional, beautiful, durable, reliable, and practical, and we love flexing our engineering skills to make an idea scribbled on a napkin into a badass bicycle part with thousands of miles on it. Knowing that the folks right down the road from us at Sierra Nevada take the same pride in their work, and that quite a few of Paul’s ideas have been scribbled on napkins over a cold Pale Ale, we knew we’d have to come up with something really special to be worthy of this collaboration.

This year we had a very specific vision for a bikepacking rig. We imagined loading it up here in town with a sleeping bag and a bunch of food and water (and maybe a Pale Ale or two), heading out the door, and riding the network of gravel roads out of Chico and up the Butte County foothills into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, to one our favorite places to ride and camp, Butte Meadows. Having a clear vision of what we had in mind, and calling it the #SierraExplorerBike, we picked up the phone and called up some of our best buddies in the business to see if they wanted to help us turn this vision into a reality.

To read the rest of this article and to see the full photo gallery go and check out The Radavist