As I was a child I was ill, but every year was an improvement in my health, and a holiday of several weeks on the Catalan Costa Brava. The sun, the sea and the fresh air reminded me I was alive, and I always came out feeling a lot better. I learned much about that […]
The 2022 Sea Otter Festival in Girona, Spain, expanded to feature seven bike races, including the long-distance gravel ride, the Pirinexus Challenge. When Jordi Cantal traversed the Pirinexus route of 340km in the Summer of 2014, he did not know that at the end, deep in the night, he would have created a new challenge […]
The organizers have come up with something special for the fifth edition of the legendary Nibelungen Gravel ride. 34 participants took part in the first Nibelungen Gravelride five years ago. The event is now so well known that well over 200 gravel cyclists appeared this year. The gravel weekend started on Friday with a welcome […]
Ride a gravel bike and do good at the same time! Whether wildfires, floods or other disasters. Again and again, the dimensions of the beautiful federal state of Saarland serve to illustrate all these momentous events, without disturbing the actual beauty of the beautiful Saarland. As in previous years, all income from Saarvertikal goes to […]
The Traka was reaffirmed once again on the weekend of May 1st in Girona/Spain, as one of the leading gravel events in Europe. Event promotion company, Klassmark, has earned a reputation for hosting the best events in the European gravel scene. The 2022 edition of THE TRAKA wrapped up with 800 participants from more than […]
The “Ruta Vía de la Plata”, also known as the Silver Route, is an old trade route of almost 1,000 kilometers from the time of the Romans. The route follows the old military roads of the Romans from Seville in Andalusia to Gijon on the Atlantic coast in Asturias. The track can also be ridden […]
It’s almost the end of the season, but there’s always time for Timo Rokitta to squeeze in one last gravel event in 2021. At the end of a year when only a few gravel events took place, the organisers of the Nibelungen gravel ride invited gravellistas to their traditional “last season ride”. One week after […]
Part Two: Orbits Five to Eight Greetings! I am riding my fifth Orbit in the mountains of the Rhön. The Orbit is called BIG BANG and is 160 kilometers with a total ascent of 3,350 meters / 10,990 feet. This event happens close to an area on the former GDR border, somewhere I am familiar […]
