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Open WI.DE. Adventure Gravel Bike is Ready for Huge Tires
Leave your measly 2.1″ 650b tires at home, because the new Open WI.DE. will accept up to 2.4″ of rubber so you can get over the most demanding terrain. The WI.DE. is built for everything from bikepacking to plain all-around fun. The secret sauce is the double-drop chainstays which allows for more clearance and optimizes…
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The 2020 GT Grade hits the Gravel at a Great Price
The GT Grade took home a Eurobike award back in 2014. Gravel hadn’t come into its own yet and disc brake road standards were still on the drawing board. But the bike got everyone’s attention and set a standard that many others have followed. For 2019, GT’s iconic “Triple Triangle” is back, with a twist…
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2019 Giro d’Italia Stage 19 Recap & Highlights: Chaves with an Emotional Win
Esteban Chaves took an emotional win today after a war of attrition broke out among the breakaway group on the day’s final climb of San Martino di Castrozza. Things in the GC battle remain mostly unchanged, Astana’s Miguel Angel Lopez was the only General Classification rider to steal any time. Lopez took about 45 seconds…
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Easton EA90 AX Wheels for Gravel, Road, and Just About Everything Else
Easton is rolling out the next addition to the AX line today, by adding a top of the line version of their AX aluminum wheels with the new EA90 AX Disc. The wheelset starts with a tubeless ready aluminum rim with an asymmetric rim bed for balanced spoke tension and increased durability. Notably the AX…
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Ride To Extraordinary – The TNGA
Ride To Extraordinary is a new on-demand documentary series. Season #1 focuses on the TNGA (The Trans North Georgia Adventure). TNGA is more than a bikepacking race. It’s a test of will and endurance. It’s 357 miles filled with more than 50,000 feet of grueling climbs, wicked downhills, river crossings, hike-a-bikes, wild bears, boars, snakes…
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Allied Able Gravel Racing Bike
Allied dropped a teaser video for a new bike last week, today we’ve got the goods. And a sweet video of the Allied Able in action. The world’s most famous gravel race is June 1st, Able’s official launch is today, May 30. Coincidence? I think not. No doubt we’ll see someone racing this rig this…
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2019 Giro d’Italia Stage 18 Recap: Breakaway barely survives
Damiano Cima (Nippo-Vini Fantini Fanzine) took a very unlikely win on Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia today as the breakaway barely held off the quickly gaining peloton in a nailbiting finale. Cima launched his sprint with about 200m to go, beating not only his two break companions but also holding off a hard-charging Pascal…
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Ruta del Jefe
In February, Sarah Swallow hosted Ruta Del Jefe, a 125-mile self supported adventure race following dirt roads around the Santa Rita Mountains, the lair of one of the only North American Jaguars to live in the U.S., El Jefe. Set in Sky Islands region of the Sonoran Desert, in the US/Mexico borderlands in Southern Arizona…
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EF Education First announce riders for Dirty Kanza
Ted King is going to have some WorldTour level competition at Dirty Kanza this year as EF Education First is slated to send some top names to the premier gravel racing event. I gotta say, I’m really enjoying watching the trajectory of this EF team: 2018: Were going to focus less on Euro bike racing…
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2019 Giro d’Italia Stage 17 Recap: Peters solos, Movistar looks strong
Nans Peters (Ag2r-La Mondiale) soloed to victory on Stage 17 of the 2019 Giro d’Italia today after launching a bold attack with 16 kilometers to go. The Frenchman took his win in the biathlon stadium at Anterselva after building a 1:34 margin over the next best man, Esteban Chaves (Mitchelton-Scott). Peters and Chaves were both…
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2019 Giro d’Italia Stage 16 Recap: Ciccone wins, Roglic and Yates lose more time
Despite the Passo Gavia climb being removed from Stage 16 due to avalanche risk, today’s stage at the 2019 Giro d’Italia still saw plenty of action. It was a miserable, rainy day of racing in northern Italy, but Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) rose to the challenge and took the stage win from the breakaway ahead of…
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Video: Panic as Jumbo-Visma team car stops for toilet break just as Roglic suffers mechanical
Awesome video of the moment of panic inside the Jumbo-Visma team car when Primož RogliÄ was hit by a mechanical during Stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia. The Slovenian needed a bike change at 20km left to race, but his team car was nowhere in sight as the sports directors had stopped for a toilet…
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Cycling the World
I don’t think you could be any less prepared to cycle around the world than I was. The morning I cycled out of London, I had no idea that I would be away from home for so long – I just wanted to see how far east I could ride! Three years later I arrived…
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Lance Armstrong ‘wouldn’t change a thing’
Lance Armstrong has no regrets when it comes to using illegal performance-enhancing drugs that ultimately led to him being stripped of seven Tour de France titles. In an NBC Sports Network special with Mike Tirico that will air Wednesday, Armstrong explained he “wouldn’t change a thing” about what happened: “I wouldn’t change the way I…
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Ottolock’s New and Improved Lock Cut in Seconds
$75 lock cut in seconds with a pocket-able tool. LockPickingLawyer has taught me that there’s absolutely nothing I can do to ever truly secure my bike. The only safe option is to never stop riding.
