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There’s a chaise lounge sitting on the side of a gravel road somewhere in America right now, and it’s been inducted into the Gravel Cycling Hall of Fame. If you’ve ridden gravel events in the last decade, chances are you’ve met it—stopped mid-suffer to strike a pose, caught your breath, maybe even had a brief existential moment about why you’re pedaling through the middle of nowhere on a bicycle. That chaise lounge belongs to Salsa Cycles, and this year, it’s coming to Rebecca’s Private Idaho.

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We’re thrilled to announce that Salsa Cycles is the Official Bike of RPI for 2026.

If you know anything about Salsa, you know they were building bikes for the places we send you before most of the cycling world acknowledged those places existed. They developed the industry’s first purpose-built gravel race bike. They pioneered drop-bar bikepacking machines when “bikepacking” was still a word you had to explain to people. In other words, they’ve been designing bikes for exactly the kind of terrain that defines central Idaho’s backcountry—the Lost River Range, the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, the high mountain basins and remote summits that make RPI what it is—long before it was fashionable.

This isn’t a logo-on-a-banner partnership. Salsa is also stepping up to support the Be Good Foundation, which means their presence at RPI extends well beyond the start line. Every rider at Rebecca’s Private Idaho pedals with a purpose, and Salsa understands that. The bicycle as a catalyst for healing, empowerment, and evolution isn’t just our language—it’s theirs, too.

And about that chaise lounge. Somewhere out on course this September, nestled along one of Idaho’s finest stretches of gravel, you’ll find it waiting for you. The Hall of Famer itself. A place to sit, smile, catch your breath, and remember why you’re out there. As The Chaise once said in its own acceptance speech—yes, a chaise lounge gave an acceptance speech—“If you can make it to The Chaise, you can make it to the finish.”

We think that’s a pretty fitting philosophy for what we’re building here.

RPI returns September 9–12, 2026, to Sun Valley and Ketchum, Idaho, with new routes, expanded course offerings, and now, a world-class bike partner that was born for this kind of thing. Registration is open at rebeccasprivateidaho.com.

See you in Idaho.

With love,
The cast and crew at Bike Monkey

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