8 Over 7 can be ridden, hiked, run, scrambled, or stretched across a season — the patch is yours when you've stood on all eight. What follows is how Zach Stone hosts the annual loaded-bike weekend version. Four rules describe that style.
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On a Bike
Not a hike. Not a run. Eight Black Hills summits — Terry Peak, Crows Nest Peak, Bear Mountain, the high rim — taken on two wheels, loaded, on dirt.
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One Weekend
Friday roll-out to Sunday finish. Three days, three pushes. No season-long checklist. No bag-em-when-you-can. One continuous weekend.
III
Calendar Year
All eight summits inside a single calendar year. The clock resets January 1. Each year's finishers are their own class.
IV
Self-Supported
Your bike. Your food. Your bivy. Your call. There is no SAG, no aid station, no entry fee. You earn the route or you don't.
The tradition
Finish 8 Over 7 in a calendar year and you've earned a seat at the journal.
Tim R. of Acme Bikes keeps a leather-bound Rider Log at the shop in the Black Hills. Every rider who completes the 8 Over 7 — eight summits over 7,000 ft, any year, any manner — is invited to come sign it. Write your name, your dates, the line that stuck with you. Tell the story. Document the quest.
The journal is where the route stops being a GPX file and becomes an oral tradition.
The patch
Hand-cut, hand-stamped. No two the same.
After you finish, Tim R. hands you a leather patch — hand-cut and stamped by Rory Stone and Tim R. at Acme Bikes.
Hand-cut leather. The South Dakota outline framing eight summit marks — one for each peak over seven thousand. Made by Rory Stone and Tim R. at Acme Bicycles.
One patch per finisher. No re-prints, no replacements, no online store.
Want a patch?
Stand on all eight summits — any year, any manner — then come find us at Acme Bikes in the Black Hills. Tim R. will sit you down with the Rider Log and put a leather patch in your hand.
The classes
Every rider who's signed the journal, by year. The list grows one weekend at a time.
