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Four Cycling Bib Shorts for High-End Gravel and Cyclocross Saddle Comfort
Cycling shorts are one of the most important pieces of clothing for the serious cyclist. The close-fitting shorts were originally from tightly knit wool with a piece of deer skin as a liner pad to...
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Gravel Results: “Cross the Mitten” Michigan Coast to Coast Gravel Grinder...
After a successful first run in 2018, the “Cross the Mitten” Michigan Coast to Coast Gravel Grinder returned with 210-mile gravel grind from the east coast to the west coast. It was not quite the Race...
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Photo Gallery: 2019 Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race
Although 2019 was its first year, the Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder made a big splash with its ambitious five-day stage race format, sold out field and varied, challenging and beautiful routes. [caption...
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Gravel Preview: Utah’s Crusher in the Tushar Returns for Year 9 Ready to Crush
Ever wondered what it would look like if a professional cyclist put on a bike race? Well, Utah’s annual Crusher in the Tushar gravel race is one example of what might transpire. First held in 2011, the...
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Gravel Grinders to Watch at the 2019 Crusher in the Tushar
On Saturday, the world of groad racing re-centers itself again, this time focusing on the remote Tushar Mountains of western Utah. Located about midway between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, the...
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In Review: Bontrager GR1 Team Issue Gravel Tire
In 2018 at Dirty Kanza, we saw none other than Sven Nys unveil prototype Bontrager gravel tires after starting on Challenge Gravel Grinders and suffering multiple flat tires. That prototype tire, the...
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Evelyn Dong and Alex Grant Win 2019 Crusher in the Tushar – Full Results
Utah-based mountain bike racers Evelyn Dong (Pivot Stan’s NoTubes) and Alex Grant (Gear Rush) climbed to crushing victories at the 2019 Crusher in the Tushar gravel race in Utah. Dong won by over eight...
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Reviewed: Wilier Triestina Jena Carbon Gravel Bike
Wilier Triestina takes the crown of having its name on some of the most unique bikes we’ve covered. A few years ago, it left an oversized impression on us with its steel Jaroon + monster cross bike,...
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Photo Gallery and Report: 2019 Crusher in the Tushar Gravel Race
More than 600 riders, including a number of current and former U.S. professional national champions, descended on Utah’s Tushar Mountains for the ninth-annual Crusher in the Tushar gravel event. After...
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Interview: Evelyn Dong Conquers the 2019 Crusher on a Borrowed Bike
Mountain biker Evelyn Dong (Pivot – Stan’s NoTubes) knows the state of Utah well, but gravel racing, that was a bit new for her when she took the line at the 2019 Crusher in the Tushar. Although Dong...
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Interview: Alex Grant Perseveres, Gets Crusher Win He has Dreamed About
Although he is from Utah, the Crusher in the Tushar gravel race had been anything but kind to Beehive Stater Alex Grant (Gear Rush). The first time he did the race, he busted a spoke on his mountain...
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Stomped and Reviewed: Look X-Track SPD-Compatible Clipless Pedals
Look Cycle has been a pioneer in cycling pedals. It took its popular ski binding technology and adapted it for road cycling, and soon found Tour de France champions including Bernard Hinault and Greg...
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Gravel Bike: Alex Grant’s Cannondale Topstone Carbon “Crusher Bike”
Alex Grant (Gear Rush) has done the Crusher in the Tushar six times now, so in that time he has ridden a variety of bikes for the climby Utah gravel race. He has tried a mountain bike, Cannondale Slate...
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Gravel Race: Riders Bring Eh Game to The Crusher in Michigan’s U.P.
Michigan might be known as the “Mitten State,” but there is another part of the state tucked in between Lakes Superior and Michigan north of Wisconsin called the Upper Peninsula. The U.P., as folks...
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Gravel Race: Graveleurs Czech Out Nebraska’s Bohemian Alps at Bo Sto Mil
Gravel Worlds is still a few weeks away, but last weekend, the Bohemian Alps of Nebraska were alive with the sound of gravel grinding and revelry at the 2019 Bohemian Sto Mill. Based in, aptly, Prague,...
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Gravel Preview: Laura and Ted King Welcome Friends Home at 2019 Rooted Vermont
Laura and Ted King have been across the country and the world riding in gravel events, and this weekend, they are returning the favor by inviting graveleurs to their own backyard and the first-ever...
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Gravel Results: Iceland’s The Rift Bridges Continents with Gravel, Volcanoes
Iceland’s Lauf has been getting involved in gravel in a big way in recent years. The company launched its spring-leaf Lauf Grit fork and then added the fork to its True Grit gravel bike. Lauf employees...
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Gravel Race: Vermont’s Irreverent Road Ride 8.0 Provides Class IV Challenge
This weekend, gravel riders have descended on northern Vermont for the inaugural Rooted Vermont hosted by Laura and Ted King, but last weekend, there was another, dare we say, more cheeky gravel ride...
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Gravel Results: The Business Side of the Rooted Vermont Mullet Protocol
On Sunday, Laura and Ted King welcomed 450 of their closest gravel-riding friends to their new home state for the inaugural Rooted Vermont gravel race. On Friday, we previewed the new event and the...
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Podcast: Amanda Nauman Joins Groadio to Talk DK, Her Season, Gravel’s Future
Amanda Nauman started seriously racing gravel in 2015, and since then, she has become one of the most well-known riders in the scene. This year Nauman joined the Dirty Kanza 200 1,000-mile club for...
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