Gravelstoke, It’s Good For Life! (bike not included)
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Ruta Chingaza is a film that documents Lael Wilcox and friends as they partner with Conservation International to build a new route through some of the most inspiring, rugged, and environmentally important landscapes in Colombia.
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Just a few blocks south from the Texas Capitol in Downtown Austin, and directly across from a US Federal Courthouse, lies an unassuming circa 1955 warehouse with brick siding at the corner of 4th and Nueces. A black sign with white neon lights welcomes visitors to the city’s must-visit bicycle shop.
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With flat bar gravel bikes now becoming more mainstream, we help define this trend for the average consumer while also highlighting six well-executed stock builds that cost less than $2000. Read our story capturing 6 awesome 2021 flat bar gravel bikes under $2K.
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Strava added more incentive to join their premium paid service with the launch of #StatMaps. The recently added and invisible feature will allow riders (and runners) to display a data-driven line color over their recorded route.
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Since the first mountain bikes bearing the Marin Bikes name debuted in 1986, the brand has been dedicated to enriching the lives of our riders by making fun, high caliber bicycles, which provide years of riding enjoyment.
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We finally have a view on what a professional gravel race during COVID looks like. Today, BWR Cedar City revealed its courses for both a Waffle and Wafer ride, along with guidelines for participants in the middle of a pandemic. The new course offers similar distances, with roughly half the climbing of its San Diego sister race.
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A leader in gravel route creation, Ride with GPS further transforms the way that cyclists discover dirt, plan routes and navigate with the introduction of a global heatmap that is fully compatible with their best-in-class web and mobile route planners and mobile navigation system.
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Joshua Berry, Giant Factory Off-Road Team. What does a home and back route look like for you? Home and Back Again - Ride Unleashed.
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We do our best to share the latest gravel videos with our readers, as a good watch is always welcome especially in COVID times. Recently we recalled a few good ones from the past, along with some recent videos with lower view counts that we wanted to share. So grab something effervescent and we hope you find something new to enjoy!
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Recently I’ve found hip packs to be extremely useful for supplementing storage on a range of rides. Like handlebar bags and frame bags, hip packs are great option when going gravel casual. We give the new Topo Designs Subalpine Hip Pack a try and give it a full review.
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WTB announced today that all of their gravel tires measuring at least 37mm wide are now available with a 120tpi casing and their all-new SG2 puncture protection. SG2 is the brand’s new ultra-thin nylon protection layer insert that provides bead-to-bead coverage. WTB claims that the additional protection layer provides 33% more sidewall protection and 17% more tread protection compared with their standard 60tpi offerings, while seeing a nominal weight increase of 5-10% across the tire lineup.
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Known for their performance-oriented wheels, today Roval announced a series of new components that expand on the brand’s lineup. Most notably for us is the all-new Terra Seatpost, a carbon post designed specifically for gravel applications.
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It was an unlikely destination for a late-summer ride, but pandemic circumstances continued to push us further to the edges of San Diego County, exploring everything the region had to offer. Up before sunrise, we loaded up Jay’s 4x4 pickup with two Obed Boundary gravel bikes and headed east, past the Vulcan Mountains and down Dry Canyon to Borrego Springs, California.
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On Sept 1, Amanda Nauman will attempt to be the first female finisher of the Caldera 500 route. The Caldera is a multi-day, grassroots, self-supported, bikepacking adventure that showcases the rich beauty and geological rarities of the Eastern Sierra.
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Known for their well designed and USA made bike racks, 1up wants to help you with gear storage now too with the release of the all-new RS shelf and hook system. RS stands for Rack Stash and 1up currently offers three new products that expand the system beyond bike and bike rack storage.
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For their third episode, the cool kids of Rodeo Podcast talk about their gravel adventure ride up Jones Pass. In their own words, “a perfect case study of what (big mountain adventure) riding is like”.
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BMC dropped more details on its 2021 BMC URS gravel bike this week. The Swiss company went with an a slack 70˚ head angle, integrated cockpit and micro-suspension concept that should be interesting to watch.
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It started when I swapped the fat tires on my Otso Voytek with 27.5+ wheels, a Fox 34 shock, and a dropper post during a hazy period of COVID quarantine. Obviously this meant that I need to ride the Kenai 250, or at least that’s what told my wife when I asked her to pick up a giant curb-side box of parts at my local bike shop. That, along with “always wanting to check out those trails,” convinced me to spend the hefty $20 to register my InReach tracker with the event.
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