{"id":1984276,"date":"2026-06-11T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1984276"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:26:00","slug":"singletracks-welcomes-a-new-full-time-staff-writer-travis-reill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1984276","title":{"rendered":"Singletracks welcomes a new full-time staff writer, Travis Reill"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\"A<\/a>
Photo: Ale Di Lullo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For regular Singletracks readers, Travis Reill<\/a> needs no introduction. Travis has been contributing to Singletracks as a freelance writer since early 2023, and this month, he joins Singletracks full-time as a staff writer. <\/p>\n

Travis lives in Bend, Oregon, home to hundreds of miles of incredible trails stretching into the foothills of Deschutes National Forest and beyond. <\/p>\n

At Singletracks, Travis has already written about a wide variety of topics, from trail news coverage to bike and component reviews and tech explainers. And yet, he doesn\u2019t personally own a mountain bike at the moment.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

\u201cSo I had a Canyon Spectral,\u201d he told me. It was a demo bike, on loan to another publication, and after publishing his review, a representative for the publication told him he could keep the bike. So, he got rid of his personal bike, a Stumpjumper, and rode the Spectral for the next three years. Then, Canyon called: the demo bike was overdue and needed to be returned right away.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Travis always has a demo bike or two that are in for testing, though he\u2019s in the market for a bike he can officially call his own. Preferably, a trail bike.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs much as I want to be like, \u2018Let\u2019s go to the bike park,\u2019 you know, go ride the like gnarly, crazy stuff \u2014 and I do that, and that\u2019s fun,\u201d he told me. \u201cBut there\u2019s just nothing better than a solid backcountry trail ride.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI am more of an everyday trail rider. I kind of want to go and get lost somewhere and climb a thousand or two thousand feet, and then descend a thousand or two thousand feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Around Bend, Travis\u2019s favorite ride is a route known as North Fork Farewell. Riders pedal up the North Fork trail, passing scenic waterfalls along the way, before topping out at Tumalo Falls, then descending the Farewell trail. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou climb right up past Tumalo Falls, and then it just kind of \u2014 everybody just disappears. And you get up to where you feel kind of remote, kind of backcountry, for Bend at least. That\u2019s definitely my favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond Oregon, one of Travis\u2019s all-time favorite rides is a relatively new trail called Spinal Tap in Richfield, Utah<\/a>. The epic descent drops nearly 5,000 feet over about 20 miles.<\/p>\n

Spinal Tap features \u201ca lot of berms and stuff to just like really help you carry your speed. So, it\u2019s just a phenomenal, fast trail. I did it on one of the worst bikes that was a rental. It was just like a really clapped-out, terrible, terrible bike. But we did the whole trail in under two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Prior to joining Singletracks full-time, Travis was a freelance contributor to multiple outdoor publications. And before that, he was an elementary school teacher. He worked in a fourth-grade classroom for a while, which he tells me was his favorite grade to teach.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/figure>\n

Travis has written some of your favorite articles, with many more to come<\/h2>\n

Travis wrote some of readers\u2019 favorite articles over the past few years, including this opinion piece<\/a> arguing that a 150mm trail bike is pretty much all any mountain biker needs. (Personally, I think 140mm is the goldilocks zone, but I hate to quibble.) And he was one of the first to write about the growing confusion <\/a>among the public over the difference between e-bikes and e-motos<\/a><\/span>. Travis is currently researching a follow-up to that piece, and we can\u2019t wait to see what he learns.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re stoked to have Travis on board full-time, and look forward to much more regular contributions to the Singletracks community!<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!–<\/p>\n

\n

Related articles<\/h4>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t–><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

\t\t\t\tjQuery(function() {
\n\t\t\t\t\tpostpayloads._9691ef38573a3dd7ae8a5046143926b2 = {“ids”:”702742,709338,713125,715461″,”posts_per_page”:null,”offset”:0,”style”:”4up”};
\n\t\t\t\t\tpostcounter._9691ef38573a3dd7ae8a5046143926b2 = {start: 0, step: 0, end: 0};
\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p>\n

\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/a><\/p>\n
Mountain Bikes and Gear<\/a><\/div>\n
Electric motors hurt mountain biking, but we\u2019re not talking e-bikes: e-motos are the problem<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/a><\/p>\n
Mountain Bikes and Gear<\/a><\/div>\n
One bike to rule them all: The modern long-travel trail bike really is a\u00a0‘quiver killer’<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/a><\/p>\n
Trail Bikes<\/a><\/div>\n
Aventon Current review: How this $6,000 full-suspension eMTB stacks up<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/a><\/p>\n
Mountain Bikes and Gear<\/a><\/div>\n
The pros and cons of 32″ wheels, and what we can learn from 29er adoption<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Ale Di Lullo For regular Singletracks readers, Travis Reill needs no introduction. Travis has been contributing to Singletracks as a freelance writer since early 2023, and this month, he joins Singletracks full-time as a staff writer. Travis lives in Bend, Oregon, home to hundreds of miles of incredible trails stretching into the foothills of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,274],"class_list":["post-1984276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-singletracks-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}