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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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,…

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…

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…

Wausau, Wisconsin - October 19, 2019 It isn’t often that we see a gravel race come to central Wisconsin, so when the Ironbull Granite Grinder was announced in Wausau, Wisconsin,…

Wausau, Wisconsin - Most wouldn’t expect that cyclists would find an epic ride on the backroads in Central Wisconsin, but racers at IRONBULL’s inaugural Red Granite Grinder found just that…

The second edition of the Rainmaker RollerCoaster, organised by HotChillee, ran between October 5 and October 11, 2019 in South Africa. Covering 600km from Swellendam to Plettenberg Bay, it took…

"The Talladega National Forest contains some of the most scenic and serene gravel in the entire southeast. Starting from the Warden Station Horse Camp, racers travel 45 miles filled with…

Part One of the inaugural Southern Brewery & Distillery Tour kicked off on October 5, 2019 at the Gator Grind, hosted by the Omaha Brewing Company and promoted by Jo…