I love the iconic ACA TransAmerica Trail bike jersey, which I wear on all my bicycle tours. I've bought several over the years, replacing them as they wear out or fade.

It's been a while since I bought a new one, so I went to the ACA website to order one, but I was dismayed to see that that they are no longer selling any jerseys.

I called the ACA at the number listed on their website, but got a recording that said they don't answer the number anymore, and that I should email instead.

I emailed them, and a few four or five hours later I received a response, confirming that they are only selling maps now, and do not have an order for more jerseys.

That's a bummer. If I'd known they were going to stop selling the jerseys, I'd probably have bought three of them before they stopped.

There have been posts in various places on the web about the likely demise of ACA, although I don't think anyone has posted anything about it to the forums here. If they can't answer their phone, or keep an inventory of items that advertise their organization (like the TransAm jersey), things do seem dire there.

I just recently renewed my membership for another year, but all the emails I get from them seem pretty sad. Selling their headquarters building, reducing the number of issues for the magazine, membership way down… It seems dire indeed. 

I bought the ACA Northern Tier maps for my cross-country tour (which I divided into two summers) and the information they provided was excellent.  I also attended an ACA seminar in St. Paul, MN.  I thought they did a great job in advocating for bike touring.

When I thought it would be more fun to plan my own routes in less conspicuous parts of the country, I let my ACA subscription expire.  Now I feel bad about that.

Are the maps paper or electronic?

Greg, I feel the same sense of guilt.  I let my subscription expire when I left the US in 2015 and I can't help feeling a bit responsible for their apparent demise.  

I'm probably giving myself too much credit, but it was a great organization.  This is pretty sad news.

I think some paper maps are still available but they are definitely emphasizing digital format through an affiliation with RideWithGPS.

I have a premium level subscription with RideWithGPS because I believe it is a great product (and my credit card is charged automatically each year!)

I bet you can buy used ACA TransAm jerseys on EBAY. 

I recently bought red and blue versions of classic 2002-2003 Sierra Nevada brewery jerseys from EBAY.

I bought many ACA maps for reference when planning my own tour routes. But I almost never used the maps during actual tours because only a fraction of each tour was on ACA routes. There was never a need to switch to ACA maps for those brief periods. The Introduction page of my Southwest U.S. Coast to Coast tour journal has an essay about why only 20% of that tour was on the ACA Southern Tier route.

The Pacific Coast is one place I did pedal a long distance on an ACA route. On that route I found the Bicycling the Pacific Coast guidebook far more useful than the ACA Pacific Coast maps. The route is so well signed that maps aren't essential. The book recommends things to see and do along the route, while the ACA maps have NO information about things to see.  ACA maps are for cyclists on tour, not for tourists on bikes. Despite misgivings about the maps, I'm an ACA Life Member.

I carried paper road maps until about 2016. Sometimes dozens of letter size photocopies of Benchmark state atlas pages. Now I navigate using stored routes on RideWithGPS, and look up services on Google Maps.

I saw a rack full of printed maps when I visited the ACA office in June.

The ACA office looked very different when I first saw it in 2013. Then it looked like a mail order business. Now it looks like a museum.