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Few years. Many kilometers. An immeasurable desire to travel.At only 21, Dario Franchi turned his dream into an adventure. Starting from Florence, he covered over 22,000 km, crossing 20 countries in that continuous challenge that is life on the road.

Every year there is that miraculous astral conjunction whereby five long-time friends manage to simultaneously shirk their obligations and squeeze themselves into a plane with their respective two-wheelers, disassembled and pressed into a carton along with their bikepacking bags.

I went cycling in Cambodia because it’s not the same thing to make this journey by moped, car, or bus. On a moped the locals see you as a tourist, on a bike they see you as a traveller.

Roots is a project that aims to create a collection of off-road bikepacking routes and to grow our network of wild camping spaces in nature for adventure.