I have been making things on the internet since I was a teenager in the mid-90s. My mom thought I was a drug dealer, because money kept arriving from all over the world and nobody in the house understood that people would pay a kid to build websites.
I never picked one lane after that. Photography, writing, UX, programming, video, advertising. I am a technical designer at heart, which is why Bike Gear Database looks the way it does, and it is also why I keep wandering off to make art. The art is how I stay sane in an industry I have complicated feelings about. These days I point my tech work somewhere better, helping build AI tools for farmers in India and Africa.
Bike Anywhere is an illustration project I took on just for myself, to sit in that blurry space I keep coming back to. We spend so much energy trying to pin down the edges of each genre. Is it gravel? Is it road? Is it mountain? I like the space where nobody can quite say. And bike bags are what live there. Strap them on and the genre stops mattering, because now you can just keep going, off the pavement, onto the dirt, up the mountain and back down.
That is why there are three. Misty peaks, open desert, the open road. Three different worlds that are really the same act: pack the bike, and go somewhere.
They are free, made for the community. Put one on your phone, print one for the wall, and go ride.
Grab the wallpaper
Three phone wallpapers, one per terrain. Tap the one you want and it opens in a new tab at full size. Save instructions are right below.
Open Desert
Gravel was my way in, and it still feels like the nineties mountain biking I grew up on, just with drop bars. I cannot see myself ever stopping. This one is set in a desert I have never actually ridden: dust, open distance, not a fence in sight.
Misty Peaks
This one comes straight from home: the misty peaks of the island I live on, the West Coast of British Columbia and the wider Pacific Northwest. I have never actually bikepacked on a full-suspension bike, so it is a nod to the people who do, and I admire them for it.
The Open Road
I spent the better part of fifteen years on the road, and it was road touring that first pulled me into bikepacking. This one is a nod to my old steel Surly Pacer, the bike that logged most of those kilometres.
How to save it to your phone
iPhone (iOS)
Tap a button above and the wallpaper opens on its own. Press and hold the image, then choose Save to Photos. To set it as your wallpaper, open Settings, Wallpaper, Add New Wallpaper, pick it from your Photos, and position it so the bike sits where you want it behind your clock and apps.
Android
Tap a button above and the wallpaper opens on its own. Press and hold the image, then choose Download image or Save image. To set it, open Settings, Wallpaper (or long press your home screen and choose Wallpapers), pick it from your gallery, and set it for your home or lock screen.
Print one for the wall
The bikes look just as good on paper. The whole set comes as one print-quality PDF: all three posters and all three phone wallpapers in a single file. Send the posters to any print shop or a large-format home printer. Consider it open source. Take it, use it, share it.
