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Gravel Bike: Sarah Sturm’s Lost and Found Specialized Diverge
Sarah Sturm is best known for her mountain biking and cyclocross racing—we saw her win Singlespeed Nationals in Louisville aboard her TenSpeed Hero Specialized CruX last December—but this summer, Sturm...
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Gravel Race: With Peto Snowed Out, Truckee Dirt Fondo Welcomes Riders in June
Last year, then road world champion Peter Sagan (Bora – Hansgrohe) made his U.S. gravel debut at the Sagan Dirt Fondo in Truckee, California. Sagan was set to return in 2019, but “an unexpectedly...
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Gravel Race: There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills at the Gold Rush Gravel Grinder
Gravel racing is a truly American way of riding bikes, and so it is cool to see races eschewing yet another play on “Roubaix” to embrace local history when naming races. Events such the Land Run 100...
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Podcast: Groadio Episode 3 with the First-Ever Gravel Power Rankings,...
The big weekend of the Dirty Kanza 200 and Lost and Found Gravel Grinder wrapped up the unofficial first half of the gravel season. Shortly after recording Episode 2 of the Groadio podcast, Bill...
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Gravel Bike: Sarah Max’s Argonaut GR2 Sets Sail on Gravel Roads
As we have seen before, sometimes all it takes is one taste of gravel racing to get you hooked. Such was the case for Oregon’s Sarah Max. With a long, eclectic history of bike and cross-country ski...
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Gravel Bike: Erica Mueller’s Orbea Terra with Shimano GRX Gravel Components
During a recent podcast with colleague Bill Schieken of CXHairs, he pointed out that part of the appeal of the Dirty Kanza is the many distances available always leave riders with a reason to come...
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Hitch Your Wagons for Adventure, Community at 2019 Oregon Trail Gravel Stage...
For Oregon’s Matt Lieto, the new five-day Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder stage race provided the perfect opportunity to combine sharing adventure and community with gravel enthusiasts and some nostalgia...
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Cannondale Unveils New Topstone Carbon Gravel Bike with Kingpin Suspension...
With a carbon cyclocross bike in the SuperX that has proven capable of winning the Dirty Kanza 200 gravel race, Cannondale has been a bit slower in releasing a dedicated carbon gravel race bike than...
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Gravel Report: SoCal’s Hunt of the North is Part Race, Part Scavenger Hunt
words by Matteo Pistono, photos by Chris Cox Gravel races and events have their unique characteristics. Nearly all test riders in distance and climbing, and some events merge elements of bike packing,...
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You’re My (Gravel) Boy: Blue Returns with Hogback Gravel Bike
Once a mainstay in the cyclocross scene, Blue Competition Cycles quietly stopped making bikes in 2012 due to financial troubles before making a comeback in 2014. After making some waves with the...
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Gravel Preview: West Virgina’s Hilly Billy Roubaix Brings Dumb Fun Back for...
In the mid-2000s, J.R Petsko and Gunnar Shogren spent a fair amount of time cruising around the many gravel roads near their West Virginia homes. As seems to be the case, they did it enough and...
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Gravel Bike: The Coetzee’s Ritchey Double Switchback Break Away Travel Tandem
What does it take to be a couple that takes on crazy challenges like the Dirty Kanza 200 on a tandem? Texas’ Andrew Coetzee had a pretty simple answer. “I would say have one word for tandem success:...
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Inside the DK200 Checkpoint Shuffle with Panaracer/Factor p/b Bicycle X-Change
“Self-supported” in gravel racing means something different at every race. In races like the DKXL, it literally means you are on your own, carrying what you can at the start and then stopping at gas...
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First Look: Pivot’s All-New Vault Cyclocross / Gravel Bike
It seems like every week, a bike brand releases a new gravel-specific bike. Today, Pivot Cycles released a dramatically updated carbon Vault, but the new bike refuses to be pigeon-holed into being just...
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Gravel Results: Goats (No, Really) Crowned at 2019 Hilly Billy Roubaix
Fun, dumb, dumb fun, the Hilly Billy Roubaix in West Virginia and Pennsylvania has offered it all for the last decade now. The 2019 Hilly Billy Roubaix that took place on Saturday marked the 10th...
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Gravel Bike: Amanda Nauman’s Tried-and-True DK200 Niner RLT 9 RDO
Death, taxes, Amanda Nauman racing at Dirty Kanza. Some things in life are just certain to happen. Nauman first raced the famed gravel race in 2015 when she got her first win and has been back for the...
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Gravel Results: “The Sand Box” Proves Decisive at Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder...
The first-ever Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder five-day stage race made an impressive debut last weekend with a field filled with Dirty Kanza and Lost and Found podium finishers and professionals from...
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Gravel Bike: Lauren De Crescenzo’s Cannondale SuperX Embraces Her Inner...
When Colorado’s Lauren De Crescenzo decided to start racing gravel last year, she did so on a borrowed bike. After all, what would a former professional road racer need a gravel or cyclocross bike for?...
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It Is What It Is: Olivia Dillon Finds Positive DK200 Experience Despite...
As the Dirty Kanza has grown in prestige, interest in following the 200-mile race on race day has grown as well. Despite what you may have read on the internet a few months ago, the info available to...
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Gravel Bike: Barry Wicks’ Lost and Found Kona Libre
Last year’s Lost and Found saw us check in with Barry Wicks (Kona) and his Kona Hei Hei full squish gravel bike he built to his liking. Since then full suspension gravel has become a thing, and this...
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