Industry Nine’s New Torch Road Alloy Platform Puts Colorful Spin on...
Asheville’s Industry Nine is known for its high-end wheels that often have a good amount of color to them thanks to the company’s color customization program. Industry Nine has made a name for itself...
View ArticleDirty Kanza Sold to Owners of Leadville Trail 100, Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival
The Dirty Kanza gravel race hasn’t sold out yet. Registration for the random selection process doesn’t open until January 1, 2019. However, next year’s running of the “World’s Premier Gravel Grinder”...
View ArticlePoseidon Lowers the Barrier to Cyclocross and Gravel Bikes with the $599...
Founded in 2014, Poseidon bikes aims to deliver affordable quality to cyclists on a tight budget. New to market is the extremely affordable model X cyclocross and gravel bike. At $599 retail, the...
View ArticleThe Comeback: Lauren De Crescenzo’s Second Chance at Life, Second Life as a...
“Compared to the emotional pain of almost losing everything, physical pain doesn’t have the same effect.” When Lauren de Crescenzo came across the finish line first to win Utah’s Crusher in the Tushar...
View ArticleReview: Warmfront Chest Warmer Solution for Staying Warm
With cyclocross being the sport of fall and gravel kicking off in early spring, having the right warm clothing is as important as having the right bike. Being cold during an afternoon at the park or...
View ArticleIn Review: First Look at the Fuji Jari Carbon 1.1 Gravel/Adventure Bike
Take a stroll into any bike shop, read a bike brand’s website or wander around any trade show and it’s clear that gravel is the category these days. In the last few years the activity of riding drop...
View ArticleReview: Irwin Cycling AON GX 35 Carbon Tubeless Gravel/Adventure Wheelset
The first commercially available pre-built wheelset was the Mavic Cosmic released in 1994. Prior to that wheels were custom-built from their individual components. Nowadays, pre-built wheelsets options...
View Article2018 Gift Guide: Silca Sicuro Titanium Water Bottle Cage
Our 2018 Gift Guide provides some gift ideas for the cyclist in your life. Today we look at the Silca Sicuro titanium water bottle cage. Water bottle cages are an oft-overlooked cycling accessory, but...
View ArticleEF Education First Pro Cycling WorldTour Team to Tackle Dirty Kanza 200,...
Last year, the growing buzz around gravel was unavoidable in early June, with the Dirty Kanza 200 taking over as the story in cycling for a good two weeks. Following the race, there was also a robust...
View ArticleRace New York’s Durty Bikes Gravel Series with JPow, Anthony Clark this Spring
SWAIN, NY—Registration is now open for the East Coast’s premier gravel races series. The Durty Bikes Gravel Series (formerly the Mudslinger Gravel Series) presented by Van Bortel Ford is raising the...
View ArticleSpecialized Issues Voluntary Recall of Future Shock Steerer Tube Collars
Specialized has issued a voluntary recall of the steerer tube collars on all bikes with the Future Shock headset system. The recall affects the Specialized Diverge gravel bike, Roubaix, Ruby and...
View ArticleReviewed: Chumba’s Terlingua Quiver-Killer
With the growth in popularity of gravel cycling and bike packing, big bike brands have segmented the off-road drop bar market into many different categories and marketed dozens of models targeted at...
View ArticleRidden and Reviewed: Canyon Grail CF SLX 8.0 Di2 Gravel Bike
As we saw when we reviewed the Canyon Inflite CF cyclocross bike, the German direct-to-consumer company is not afraid to try new things when designing its bikes. In the case of the Inflite CF, it was...
View ArticleGravel Results: Texas Chainring Massacre Gets 2019 Gravel Off to a Fast Start
It might be the week of the Cyclocross World Championships, but that did not stop gravel season from kicking off in the Lone Star State at the 2019 Panaracer Texas Chainring Massacre held over the...
View ArticleGravel Results: Stupidly Hard Ride … Maybe a Race? … at the 2019 Rock Cobbler...
“The World Famous Rock Cobbler is a stupidly hard ride bordering on a race.” That’s what the race registration page for Southern California’s Rock Cobbler reads. Now in its sixth year, the Rock Cobbler...
View ArticleGravel Results: 2019 Tortour Gravel Winter Stage Race in Switzerland
Switzerland’s Tortour is a series of endurance cycling events that cover the country’s landscape across the calendar. The most recent event in the series was the 2019 Gravel Winter stage race held...
View ArticleGravel Race: Icy CIRREM Embraces the Suck of February in Iowa
A gravel race in Iowa in February? What could possibly go wrong? Well, for the past several years, not much. Last year, we took an irreverent look at the annual CIRREM gravel event held outside Des...
View ArticleRegistration Open for 2019 Paris to Ancaster Gravel Race, Continental Road...
Several UCI road teams, including the Floyd’s Pro Cycling Continental and EF Education First WorldTour teams, have indicated they will be racing gravel events this season. Floyd’s Pro Cycling and EF...
View ArticleRace Your Own Spring Classic at the 2019 Boulder Roubaix on April 6
The Boulder Roubaix mixed-terrain race was first held in 1990, long before the current gravel boom. Registration is now open for the 2019 race held on April 6. Learn more about the race and how to...
View ArticleEaston Overland Gravel Team is the New Kid on the Gravel Block
Last year we saw Michael van den Ham and Craig Richey, riders for the Garneau – Easton p/b Transitions LifeCare cyclocross team dip their toes in the gravel waters at the Land Run 100, Dirty Kanza 200...
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