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Gravel Race: New York’s Durty Bikes Series Continues at Prattsburgh Gravel...
New York’s Durty Bikes Gravel Series returned on Saturday at the Prattsburgh Gravel Classic. The Prattsburgh Gravel Classic is New York’s second oldest gravel race, with epic racing since 2008. Now a...
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Gravel Race: Iowa Wind and Rock Ultra-Endurance Race Continues TransIowa Legacy
TransIowa was a seminal event in U.S. gravel cycling, so when it held its 14th and final edition in 2018, a giant hole was left on the gravel landscape. Fortunately for the Midwest ultra-endurance...
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Niner Goes Full Squish Gravel with MCR 9 RDO “Magic Carpet Ride”– 2019 Sea...
The Niner MCR 9 RDO is the new carbon full-suspension gravel bike first teased at Sea Otter last year and showed again this year at the show. Niner Bikes MCR 9 RDO “Magic Carpet Ride,” 2019 Sea Otter...
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Salsa Warroad All-Road and Journeyman Entry-Level Gravel Bikes – 2019 Sea...
Salsa Cycles has a complement of all-road bikes including the Warbird and Cutthroat oriented to gravel and dirt racing. Although it is an older model of the Warbird, Matt Acker’s WarBeard is always an...
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New Gravel Tires from Donnelly, Hutchinson, Kenda, Vittoria and WTB – 2019...
Consumers like choices, right? Mixed-terrain cyclists, high-volume tire cyclocrossers and gravel cyclists certainly have plenty of tire choices nowadays. Riding hardpack with loose corners? Going...
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Get Lost on Gravel Roads with Remōt’s Direct-to-Consumer Gravel Bikes – 2019...
With companies like Canyon and Wal-Mart’s Viathon launching as direct-to-consumer bike companies determined to undercut established competitors on price, the American Bicycle Group wasn’t content to...
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Ride from Lake to Lake at the 2019 Michigan Coast-to-Coast Gravel Grinder on...
Riders in the second annual Michigan Coast to Coast Gravel Grinder, presented by Salsa Cycles, will traverse 210 miles of fast gravel roads and challenging two-tracks, spanning Michigan’s lower...
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Auburn Dirt Fondo Returns May 11 As Fundraiser for Paradise Wildfire Victims
After a successful debut in 2018, the Auburn Dirt Fondo returns on May 11, 2019 for a second dose of challenging Sierra foothills dirt and gravel roads decorated with spring wildflowers and waterfalls....
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Gravel Bike: Giddy Up! for Nikola Perego’s Barry-Roubaix Horse Urban Assault...
When Nikola Perego was bike shopping, his requirements included a bike at home on the road and the road less traveled. Ultimately, his research led him to Thomas Callahan of Horse Brand, who has been...
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Gravel Bike: Steve Westdorp’s Barry-Roubaix Rider-Tuned Alter Cycles Bike
The bicycle is what can be referred to as a mature technology. While iterative improvements have advanced the art, it has existed for a very long time in largely similar configurations. Despite having...
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Ceramicspeed OSPW X Cage and Pulley for Shimano RX, UFO Coated Chain – 2019...
If maximizing your watts or minimizing maintenance are your goals, at any cost, Ceramicspeed has got a new oversized pulley and rear derailleur cage system for you. The company was displaying its new...
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Training Tuesday: Craig Richey’s Advice to Get a Top 10 at the Dirty Kanza...
After a few friendly gravel races against buddy and teammate Michael van den Ham, Craig Richey decided to head south to the Flint Hills of Kansas for the biggest gravel race of them all. Before leaving...
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Gravel Race: 2019 Paris to Ancaster in Ontario Brings Out the Pros, Fast Racing
Ontario’s Paris to Ancaster gravel race dates back to the 1990s, but on Saturday, the race had perhaps its strongest field ever. On the Men’s side, several professional teams, including Floyd’s Pro...
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Felt’s Updated Mixed Surface Cyclocross and Gravel Bikes – 2019 Sea Otter...
Felt showed off two 2020 models of what it calls its “Mixed Surface” line of bikes at Sea Otter 2019, both in sparkling white. For the most part at Sea Otter during the past few years, “Mixed Surface”...
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Could Neutral Support Be Coming to a Gravel Event Near You? One Gravel Series...
One fun part of covering gravel racing for us is getting to see what the discipline looks like across the country and world. We’ve covered races from Florida to Oklahoma to Utah and from Ontario to...
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Buck that Gravel Bronco with the Rodeo Labs Traildonkey 3.0 – 2019 Sea Otter...
Rodeo Labs is a unique Colorado-based company built around the motto “Ride, Explore, Create” and aims to mix road, cyclocross and mountain bikes into one machine. The company offers a steel Flaanimal...
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Sea Otter 2019: New Carbon Wheels from ENVE, Irwin, Mavic and Reynolds
With Interbike missing from the calendar, more companies than ever were using the 2019 Sea Otter Classic to show new products. Wheel companies certainly were no exception to this trend, with brands big...
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Gravel Race: Missouri’s The Epic Shows Riders a Tough April Challenge in the...
We have been here before, but when you call your race “epic,” well, it better be worthy of an ancient Greek poet. Last weekend, The Epic in Missouri challenged riders to 150 miles of gravel near Lake...
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Gravel Race: Vermont’s Rasputitsa Celebrates Cycling, Community, Charity …...
Northeast Vermont is a lovely place. Northeast Vermont in late April is a lovely, often muddy place. When friends Heidi Myers and Anthony Moccia decided to start a gravel race in Vermont’s Northeast...
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Reviewed: Chumba’s Versatile Titanium Terlingua Cyclocross / Gravel Bike
If you put together a checklist of the features you’d want in your dream do-it-all drop bar offroad bike, what would your list include? Perhaps you’d want big tire clearance, up to 700c x 52mm, for...
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