Austin Killips

We are very excited to welcome our new Executive Director, Austin Killips (she/her)! Austin Killips is an athlete and activist who has been at the forefront of the fight for inclusion in sport for the last five years. She has set all-time records on bikepacking routes like the Arizona Trail and Tour Divide, stood on international and domestic podiums across disciplines, co-founded the ‘nice bikes’ racing team, and generated many pretty lines with biometric sensors. In 2023 she was listed as one of Outside Magazine’s “Outsiders of the Year” and in 2025 she was cited as “very bad for the country” in a State of the Union Address. She is regularly referenced and interviewed on the subject of inclusion in sport by mainstream and cycling publications. Austin also maintains an active writing and making practice with words published in The Guardian, Escape Collective, The Radavist, and The Nation. Her portfolio includes short films, gallery shows, typesetting projects, and occasionally in focus pieces of set dressing. Off the bike you’re most likely to find her at the movies or in a corner with a book. Let’s show Austin a warm welcome in the comments!

Hi, I'm not pedaling for a living anymore and as such I do not need to continue holding onto these bicycle related objects that I have long clung to. I had hoped that a sustainable path in sport would present itself and much of what I own could be given away but I am instead broke and desperately trying to make a new life which means it's time to sell some bike parts. Link in bio to my spreadsheet of items! If you're looking for something you don't see please just holler because I may have it!

I wrote a short essay for @escapecollective about spectating sport with slowly but surely refreshing dots on a screen instead of images produced by a camera. I also took these disassembled spot tracker photos after writing it and like them so I'm making a post about something that doesn't warrant a post. a link to the story is surely living somewhere on my profile.

This is the back of a brochure I made for a trans art show organized by @c_ringness Unlike cycling, where our participation is always somehow an exercise of fitting a square peg in a round hole, there was no business of community here. No manufactured demographic tension to manage. Just a project where the foundational design principle was inclusion. After so many years spent futilely forcing it elsewhere being a part of earnestly making space for trans people to share their work was really special. Something so many kindhearted people did for me over the years as I pedaled in search of a career and a life. My draw to sport was the same draw that brings me to making images and videos and arranging words. They are both practices where we generate artifacts and experiences and facilitate the space for a particular type of vulnerability. Exhausting your physical and psychic capacity reveals things that are otherwise always veiled. Sport is a relational practice that will always be beautiful and I hope trans people can participate in them as our whole selves again someday. ----

COLOR STUDY ALBERS IN MOTION -----–----------- made in davinci resolve as a timing and scripting exercise -- turn phone for optimized visual experience --

@austin_trace steps in as interim film and culture editor with a review of the new film documenting Lachlan’s World Record ride across Australia. Today on TheRadavist.com you will find some words on The Great Southern Country, endurance sport filmmaking more broadly, and a sprawling interview with filmmaker Gus Morton (@thatisgus )

Web Design Motion Study Shot with one camera over a ~30 minute period ---------------------- A short about the considered and beautiful ways my dear friend Kaitlyn moves while making things. This case study explores a spinning piece of bread made for our website. ---------------------- Audio: Satie on the Grass - Hiroshi Yoshimura Featuring: Max Pratt Kaitlyn Cirielli Bread Lettuce ----------------------

pipenv run gps-to-obj @coleryker

Now I want to share my time with you And all I have are these data points Because Sport is a spectacle That I failed to capture ---------------------------------- I've spent the last year trying to pick up the pieces of my life. During that time I broke 2 bikepacking records, scratched on my final ride, and came to the realization that what I sought wasn't waiting behind any finish lines. I did the hardest things I could find and forgot that people get paid to make content, not to be fast. Willing one thing in service of a pure heart isn't enough for the market. I'm not sure what's next. I still don't know how to have a career in this sport. ----------------------------------    Song: Drive My Car - Eiko Ishibashi     Stills: Neon Genesis Evangelion Alt title: Søren Kierkegaard Photos: Spencer Harding & Vanessa Detwiler  Typeface: @carvalho_bernau Primary reference points: Godard - Intertitle inspiration (La Chinoise, Weekend) Jon Bois - Data Visualization inspiration

It's been almost a month and I can still feel the toll the Divide, and if I'm being honest this entire year, has taken on my nervous system. I've been on the road since March and home is calling. In the days after the Divide I kept waking up searching for my headlamp or handlebars. In the weeks after I manage to sleep through the night but still dream about being hundreds of miles out and days down on my pace. It's fun the way these things linger when you feel like you have unfinished business but aren't sure about ever returning.  I knew rebuilding would be a slog but am admittedly getting a bit burnt out on trying to make it work™. I fret that I'm running out of lilly pads but remain optimistic that opportunities for a more sustainable path in this sport are on the horizon. Grateful to be with dear friends in Colorado as I prepare and chase a weather window for one final ride to put this triple crown thing to bed. Thank you to everyone making my Hail Mary pass of a season possible. I have to believe it's all going to pay off.

The “what has bikepacking destroyed” bike-check: Somehow it did not occur to me that traversing entire countries and states would absolutely ravage all of my gear to this extent. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. Please pour one out for the gear that has already fallen on my Bikepackjng Triple Crown quest. Things I forgot to include: - Hydration pack bite valve - T-Type Chain - Shoes from the AZT - Jersey from the AZT - The active hole in my hand from a thorn on the stupid Hachita section - The headlamp and computer I broke on my first AZT attempt Things that have survived: - All the @sramroad parts I didn’t mention (Transmission stuff actually works despite my doubts) - All my @wolf_tooth_comp tools, finishing bits, and contact points - My @outboundlighting Detour light no matter what I throw at it - Arguably, my spirit #bikepackingruinseverythingaroundme Ty @wildmoonswings for the camera work <3

Tour Divide ITT is done and dusted with an extra 700 miles tacked on for good measure after a first attempt gone awry! 💢No Antelope Wells border crossing station picture because I hate border patrol agents and you should too💢 It's a little bittersweet to know that I was going fast enough on course for a much quicker finish but couldn't muster it between the toll the smoke took on my recovery and the time lost to mechanicals. Smoke blotted out the sun in Canada and persisted through the Tetons and when I finally got to Colorado I dealt with a mechanical everyday until Antelope Wells. One busted chain and 5(!) flats between Marshall Pass and the border! I almost lost it when I was 30 miles away from Cuba and unable to get my last tube to hold air (pro-tip: TPU tubes don't play nice with traditional patching methods/adhesives). After pulling my wheel off the bike for the third time in ~5 miles and a whole lot of sobbing I managed to get it to hold with a combination of super glue, my last drops of sealant, and some KT Tape. A kind soul from the hardware store hid a Slime tube and some repair materials for me outside and after hours of flailing trying to set it up tubeless I decided to ream out my rim and run the Schrader valved tube. I managed to get to Silver City with only two more flats and thanks to a fresh tire only dealt with one more flat after the cursed Hachita extension.  I feel like I scraped by the skin of my teeth here and I'm proud of how I managed to troubleshoot and get to the finish. These events push you to new limits and create the possibility for challenges you'd never anticipate. It's fun and hellish and I'm happy to be here.  I'm honored to count myself among those who have ridden and raced this cursed route. I think it's safe to say we all share a trauma bond. Thankful for all the stoke and support I recieved from the kind souls I met along the trail. For the chance to overwrite some memories in the Gila National Forest. And just generally for the ability to do silly things like traverse an entire country by bike. Thanks for following along with my endeavors friends. You'll hear from me soon when it's time for the Colorado Trail.