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2019 Lost and Found Gravel Race Pro Women: Nash, Sturm and Bishop Gordon Find...
The biggest weekend in gravel racing’s two main events have continued to grow in attendance and in stature. While Kansas’ Dirty Kanza celebrated its 14th year with 3,000 racers, California’s Lost and...
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Amity Rockwell: 2019 Dirty Kanza 200 Winner Interview
*My brain* Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Slow and steady wins the race. Amity Rockwell (Easton Overland Gravel Team) was certainly not slow at Saturday’s Dirty Kanza...
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Gravel Results: 2019 DKXL 350-Mile Ultra-Endurance Race
Dirty Kanza race directors Jim Cummins and Lelan Dains have always aimed to keep the Dirty Kanza fresh as it has grown. This year, we saw a new course and the addition of WorldTour riders to the field....
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Colin Strickland: 2019 Men’s Dirty Kanza 200 Winner Interview
When he goes out to train near his Austin home, Colin Strickland (Meteor x Giordana) often hammers halfway out and then hammers the rest of the way home and calls it a day. The training has paid off...
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2019 Lost and Found Gravel Race Pro Men: Down to the Wire!
While the Pro Women’s race at the 2019 Lost and Found featured a tight battle between three solo racers who barely saw each other, the Pro Men’s race was the exact opposite. It featured a powerhouse...
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Gravel Bike: Amity Rockwell’s New Bike Day, DK200-Winning Allied Able
As New Bike Days go, Amity Rockwell’s (Easton Overland Gravel Team) was perhaps the best ever. Since joining the Easton Overland Gravel Team at the beginning of the year, Rockwell has been riding the...
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B4B 2019: Enter to Win a Custom Bike and Support NorCal Trails – Closes...
Bikes are at the heart of what we do at ECHOS Communications, and we’re pleased to be able to give back to the cycling community whenever we can. For the second year in a row, ECHOS is shepherding the...
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Gravel Bike: Tobin Ortenblad’s New Santa Cruz Stigmata from Lost and Found
Last time we checked in with Tobin Ortenblad, he had just been taken out of the running for Louisville Nationals by a broken collarbone. Six months later, Ortenblad returned to the Lost and Found...
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Photo Gallery: Sunrise to Sunset at the 2019 Dirty Kanza 200
Whether a rider, support crew, volunteer or race staff, you certainly get your money’s worth at the Dirty Kanza 200. Riders assemble on Emporia’s Commercial Street in the pre-dawn getting ready for the...
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Gravel Report: DK200 Number 2, Was it Worth it? Mark Symns Says Yes
The week before the 2019 Dirty Kanza 200, Colorado’s Mark Symns checked in with a pre-race Gravel Report about his attempt at the famed event. After finishing Saturday’s ride—and beating one of the...
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Colin Strickland’s Allied Able: Made-in-America, Aero Bars and Lessons Learned
The challenges of running your own cycling program have been well-documented, but one of the perks of calling the shots is being able to craft your own schedule. Such is the case for Colin Strickland...
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Rolled and Reviewed: HiFi 29er Session24 Wide-Rim Carbon Gravel Wheels
HiFi Wheels is a small company in Portland, Oregon started by three passionate riders and racers of dirt and road seeking to provide more affordable high-quality wheels to others. Bre Rue has deep...
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Podcast: CXHairs, CXM Talk Dirty Kanza 200 on Episode 2 of Groadio
During the last week, we have had a bit of coverage of the 2019 Dirty Kanza 200. Depending on your fancy, you can read our race reports, nerd out on bikes or look at pretty pictures. If all of that is...
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Gravel Bike: Peter Stetina’s Custom-Art Dirty Kanza 200 Trek Checkpoint
The Dirty Kanza was not Peter Stetina’s (Trek – Segafredo) first “alternative racing”—groad, if you will—event but it was his first on Trek’s gravel bike. Stetina raced and won the Belgian Waffle Ride...
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The Training Ride: Lael Wilcox Prepares for 2019 Tour Divide with 350-Mile...
When is the 350-mile DKXL just another training ride? One case might be if you are ultra-endurance cycling star Lael Wilcox. Best known for racing events such as the 4,400-mile Trans-Am Bike Race and...
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Back for More: With a Simple Ask, Jay Petervary Returns to Race, Win 2019 DKXL
Sometimes it just takes a little nudge to get people to do extraordinary things. In the case of Jay Petervary of Idaho, all it took was an email. A veteran of four Dirty Kanza 200s heading into 2018,...
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Giveaway: Win Spinergy’s Lightweight GX Gravel Wheels with PBO Spokes –...
Update: We’ve got a random, lucky winner! Mark Pitts of Pittsburg rolls away with the Spinergy GX wheelset with PBO spokes of his choice of color. Mark says: “I commute every day and love to ride a mix...
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Gravel Report: Illinois? More Like Hillinois at the Ten Thousand Gravel Ride
We’ve done this before, but Illinois is not totally flat—or maybe it is. Tucked into the northwest corner of Illinois and southwest corner of Wisconsin is a hilly region called the Driftless Area that...
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Gravel Bike: What’s New with Katerina Nash’s Lost and Found Orbea Terra
The Lost and Found Gravel Grinder near Katerina Nash’s (Clif Pro Team) Truckee home is always a good chance to Czech in with the expat who has long lived in the U.S. Nash traditionally uses the race as...
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Gravel Bike: Mat Stephens’ Dirty Kanza 200 Factor Vista with an Aero Mod
Although gravel attracts riders from across disciplines, to race gravel all the time requires learning the nuances of equipment, tactics, nutrition and other things. When Mat Stephens (Panaracer /...
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