Around The Outside

Adventure on a bike capable to support journeys across the world. Around The Outside is made using the highest quality hand-drawn titanium available to ensure strength and reliabilty for the long haul.

The name is inspired by Malcom McLaren’s 1982 smash, whose square-dance style, instructed his 'Buffalo Gals' to "go around the outside". For English artists these days, breaking America is relatively common but back then, the eccentric McLaren was a true trailblazer. And you’ll be blazing trails too aboard our new gravel bike, designed for maximum cargo and riding comfort.

With geometry created using our proprietary Pearson House Design (Phd), it’s carefully balanced to provide the most sustainable riding position. The addition of multiple mounting bosses enables you to load up with supplies for as long as you need; weeks, months, even years. (Potentially even, around the world.)

KEY FEATURES

Multiple lugguage mounts

Featuring mounting bosses on the top tube, seat stays and at the base of the down tube. Triple bottle mounts on seat tube and down tube. accommodate varying luggage sizes. Additional mounting points are available on the forks for extra carrying capacity.
The finest titanium tubesets

Crafted from hand-drawn tubes, using the highest quality titanium available to ensure lifelong strength and utmost agility. A curved down tube allows extra clearance for both the front wheel and additional mudguards, as well as larger tyre sizes. Rear seat and chainstay are shaped to avoid mud collection.
Suspension and handlebar options

New Fox 32c TC, fork option equipped with three damping positions to adapt to varying trail conditions. Flat bar or drop bar options for extra pack carrying capacity. Choose Pearson alloy 'Wide Boy' or carbon 'Rock And Roll' wheels for up to 700 x 2.2 tyres.
Threaded oversized bottom bracket

The bottom bracket accommodates oversize sealed bearings for maximum efficiency and durability. Coupled with threaded T47 cups for low maintenance and the long haul. Cables route through the bracket shell and through the chainstays for maximium protection and sleek aesthetics.

FORCE OF NATURE. A BIKEPACKING STORY.

To mark the launch of Pearson’s new Around The Outside, we decided to do a bit of going ourselves. Specifically, we teamed up with Osprey bags to send our intrepid explorers out on an expedition of a lifetime, to Iceland. Needless to say, the conditions there were testing, but made easier with our new bike.

1700km circumnavigation involved 16 days of camping through sub zero temperatures, high winds, sleet and snow. Having navigated a mixture of volcanic trails, tarmac and mountain paths, needless to say, they came back in one piece. And what's more, with an enthusiasm to return one day, and do it all again.

GO AROUND THE OUTSIDE

FORCE OF NATURE. A BIKEPACKING STORY.

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