During the abbreviated gravel season for 2020, my highlight was undoubtedly the Greffelründsche (the name comes from a German dialect and means “Gravel around Frankfurt”), a 303-kilometer long gravel race around the metropolis of Frankfurt! Almost 100 riders were registered for the event, but due to the Coronavirus pandemic, participation was adjusted to factor in […]
What does a bike race look like in the time of COVID-19? This is a question that, like many, I thought could only be rhetorical. Nearly everything got canceled. The 2020 race season calendar stood empty. After a scary and uncertain spring, the rest of the year spooled out in an unstructured haze of solo […]
The 2020 Arkansaw High Country Race set new race records and pulled ultra-endurance cyclists from 10 states to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to compete in the self-supported 1,000-mile bikepacking race. Starting and ending on Fayetteville’s Historic Downtown Square, this year’s race featured a 1,017-mile looped course that took riders down some of Arkansas’s most scenic, backcountry roads, […]
The inaugural edition of BWR Cedar City, Utah, was held this past weekend, Saturday, October 17. Running such a large and well-attended event during this time of Covid-19 (hopefully, one we can all look back upon in the future, FU Covid!), is a risky proposition, but we understand appropriate safety protocols were taken by the […]
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” TS Eliot The Salty & Stupid Gravel Fest in Wendover, UT/West Wendover, NV happened this last weekend and it proved conclusively, that harrowing amounts of moondust and fun can coexist. The Gravel Festival included three gravel events: the Stupid Pony 220-mile ultra race, the Salty […]
Important Words from the Promoter “Despite all the challenges, we pulled off the race and we believe did so in a professional and responsible manner. We had 125 registered riders, of which 117 started. We did a staggered start of waves of about 10 riders, each separated by six feet and wearing masks. We only […]
On November 8th, 2019, fifteen of us riders and an army of enablers did something profoundly stupid and pointless: we rode across Utah’s remote West Desert on bicycles ranging from flyweight CX bikes to fully-loaded 29’er touring bikes. The inaugural Stupid Pony race/ride/informal luncheon started shortly before dawn in below-freezing temps at the Frontrunner train […]
The second annual “The Quick & The Dead” Gravel Road Race was held Saturday, September 28th. This year we had 163 racers line up at the start line for what would be an adventure most would soon not forget. With the warmer than anticipated temperatures which reached well into the mid-eighties, it was a long […]
