{"id":1889332,"date":"2026-04-18T01:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1889332"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:57:54","slug":"the-fastest-gravel-bikes-at-sea-otter-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1889332","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Gravel Bikes At Sea Otter 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-checks-yt-thumb-2.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight) fp-remove\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Logan Jones-Wilkins<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published April 18, 2026 01:57AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sea Otter Gravel has no shortage of great gravel bikes on display in the pro race.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it the first race of the Life Time Grand Prix, but it is also taking place at the same time and location as one of the biggest cycling trade shows in the world. That adds just a little bit more to the quality and attention paid to the bikes and tech of the race<\/p>\n<p>We made our rounds at the start of the pro race and put together a massive tech gallery from around the pro peloton, but beforehand, we caught up with five of the fastest racers and their bikes to see what trends we will see in gravel for 2026.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_983207\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cam Jones Scott Addict Gravel\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-983207\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08418-720x480.png?width=1920&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"><figcaption class=\"pom-caption\">(Photo: Logan Jones-Wilkins\/Velo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_983205\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate Courtney Allied Able\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-983205\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08520-2-720x480.png?width=1920&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"><figcaption class=\"pom-caption\">(Photo: Logan Jones-Wilkins\/Velo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_983206\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew L'Esperance 3T Racemax Italia\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-983206\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08464-720x480.jpg?width=1920&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"><figcaption class=\"pom-caption\">(Photo: Logan Jones-Wilkins\/Velo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_983056\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-alignnone\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_983056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-983056\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"wp-image-983056 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aguirre-full-frame-720x480.jpg?width=1920&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-983056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Logan Jones-Wilkins\/Velo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_983055\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-alignnone\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_983055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-983055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"wp-image-983055 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Payson-with-bike-720x480.jpg?width=1920&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-983055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Logan Jones-Wilkins\/Velo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight) fp-remove\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Logan Jones-Wilkins<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published April 18, 2026 01:57AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/gravel\/gravel-gear\/fastest-gravel-bikes-at-sea-otter-2026\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bike-checks-yt-thumb-2.jpg&#8221;] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published April 18, 2026 01:57AM Sea Otter Gravel has no shortage of great gravel bikes on display in the pro race. Not only is it the first race of the Life Time Grand Prix, but it is also taking place at the same time and location as one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1889332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}