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Updated September 23, 2024 09:18AM Slowly but surely, the road and all-road tire world is falling in line with the niche that Rene Herse has opened up: fast, lightweight, and supple road tires that happen to be wider than you’d expect from a road tire. However, whereas more high-end road tires are available in a…

Updated September 21, 2024 07:54AM Matt Beers, the South African powerhouse who dominated the 2024 Belgian Waffle Ride California and sits in fifth place in the Life Time Grand Prix series, has a bold message for gravel fans: “Marathon is basically a better version of gravel.” Beers isn’t referring to a 26-mile footrace. He’s talking…

Updated September 17, 2024 12:34PM The landscape of gravel racing is dramatically shifting. As the sport moves towards more regulations, more prize money, and more professionalization, it’s hard to not think back to the formative days of gravel. Gone are the days of finding a group of friends and riding 200 miles, self-supported, through Kansas’…

Updated September 13, 2024 09:56AM How many bike events have you been to? How many races? Even if the answer is only one, here’s betting you found yourself in a sea of predominantly white males. This is not a diss on white males. But it is undeniably true that the cycling world is not representative…

Updated September 10, 2024 04:28PM Brennan Wertz did not have a lot of confidence going into Sunday’s USA Cycling Gravel National Championships race. The 27-year-old had a rough August; after getting sick with Covid earlier in the month, he had to sit out two of his target races — SBT GRVL and Gravel Worlds in…

Updated September 10, 2024 12:21PM “Combining multiple disciplines sometimes results in having to make tough decisions.” For Puck Pieterse, the struggle is real. Does the newly-minted XCO world champion travel to North America to don her rainbow stripes at the remaining two World Cup races of the season, or does she stay closer to home…

Updated September 9, 2024 01:56PM Lauren Stephens and Brennan Wertz are the 2024 U.S. gravel national champions. The second annual 2024 USA Cycling Gravel National Championships kicked off on Sunday, September 8 in downtown Gering, Nebraska. With a $40,000 prize purse on the line, the elite fields were loaded with top gravel talent. Stephens’ defended…

Updated November 4, 2025 11:14AM I love pushing my body to the brink and doing long rides. That’s not the only reason I do it though. Every time I head out to see if I can manage the latest crazy distance, it’s also a chance to put the gear I recommend to the ultimate test.…

Published September 6, 2024 11:51AM This year, Rebecca’s Private Idaho, a four-day gravel-palooza in the stunning Rocky Mountain town of Ketchum, was bedeviled by wildfire smoke from the Watipi fire in the Sawtooth and Boise National Forests. After an air quality index (AQI) of 490+ resulted in the cancellation of the first of three days…

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