Culture & Opinion
Dirty Kanza was the first race for the EF Education First riders on the alternative racing calendar. Two hundred miles of of riding over flint under the hot sun is no joke, even for Lachlan Morton, Alex Howes and Taylor Phinney. EF Gone Racing did a great job of documenting
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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
Culture & Opinion
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!
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With 32 days til Kanza, Ted hits the road and goes clear across the country to test his form at the Belgian Waffle Ride. Ripping throughout San Diego County, Ted catches up with the traditional cadre of gravel rippers, but sees some new faces in the crowd. Pete Stetina, Eddie
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This is a wild adventure, six weeks of bikepacking and skiing from Germany all the way to the beach in Nice. Skiers Jochen Mesle and Max Kroneck start their biggest and most extraordinary ski tour so far. Their mission: Bikepacking across the alps and skiing some iconic mountains along the
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Admissions of an Amateur Bikepacker is a new film by Ben Johnson. Not far into his trip Ben realized his limited biking and backpacking skills might not have prepared him for a solo bikepacking adventure through the Peruvian Andes. Ben, from Johnson Studios, had the “brilliant” idea of bikepacking and
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Tristan Ridley is on a 100,000-kilometer bikepacking trip around the world in aid of Build Africa, a charity that aims to fight poverty through education in rural Kenya and Uganda. In the video above, he documents his most recent ride along the 650-kilometer Jordan Trail.
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This is a great and wholesome watch. Dan Clark takes us along on Koby Clark’s journey over the Baja Divide. Koby tells the story of his ride and gives some highlights of the challenging 1700-mile route. Bikepacking as a family in a foreign country definitely looks like an adventure.
Culture & Opinion
Want to suffer like Steinbeck? Five Australians dive deep into the heart of America. “The Bikes of Wrath” feature film showed publicly for the first time this past April at Five Point Adventure Film Festival in Carbondale, Colorado. The movie follows five Australians as they attempt to cycle 30 days
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Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) won his third stage of the Tour of Oman today and took another defining step towards securing his second consecutive overall win at the race. The Tour of Oman’s queen stage concluded on the 5.7km/11% climb of Green Mountain, as usual the slopes delivered
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Wild Horses is a look at the first year of the Silk Road Mountain Race, an absolutely brutal (26,000m of climbing), long distance (1670km), self-supported bikepacking race with very little tarmac that follows the trading route. The clock never stops and there are no prizes. What an incredible adventure.
Tech & Data
This is a great video on race tactics. Nate Pearson of TrainerRoad clearly has a big motor, but power only gives you the opportunity to win, tactics and some luck seal the deal. I hope to see many more videos from TrainerRoad like this, it’s a great format for