Vittoria simplifies and expands its gravel tyre range

Vittoria simplifies and expands its gravel tyre range

Today Vittoria launches its updated gravel range, adding a new gravel tyre liner and a T50 mixed terrain tyre. It also renames some tyres in order to help riders find…

Dropbar options added to Shimano CUES

Dropbar options added to Shimano CUES

New dropbar-flavoured Shimano CUES and Shimano ESSA product series announced. The news includes the launch of Shimano CUES U6000, U3000 and Shimano ESSA U2000 products. Here’s the Press Release and…

Brompton goes gravel

Brompton goes gravel

Billed as the brand’s “biggest launch in over 50 years” the new Brompton G Line sees the adoption of 20in wheels and gravel. The new bikes also feature revised geometry,…

Genesis announces new range of Croix de Fer, Tour de Fer and Vagabond gravel and adventure bikes

Genesis announces new range of Croix de Fer, Tour de Fer and Vagabond gravel and adventure bikes

While some brands are trimming down their ranges, Genesis continues to offer a wide range of choices across its gravel and adventure bikes. Whether you’re looking for a ‘is this…

The Grit.cx View Of Eurobike Gravel

The Grit.cx View Of Eurobike Gravel

Chipps takes a look at some of the gravel, travel, drop-bar and ride-far components and bikes on display at the world’s biggest bike show. As well as keeping an eye…

Cyclists Not Welcome At This Spanish World Cup

Cyclists Not Welcome At This Spanish World Cup

This weekend, January 21st, sees the UCI Cyclocross World Cup descend on Benidorm. And before you say ‘Eh, what?’ – it’s a cracking course – dry, dusty and fast and…

3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross: No Gravel Bikes Allowed

3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross: No Gravel Bikes Allowed

The latest tweak to the Bike Regulations in the 3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross rule book confirm the event’s cyclo-cross intentions. No suspension forks or frames (but suspension stems and seatposts still…

Match Your Gravel Bike To Your… Lamborghini?

Match Your Gravel Bike To Your… Lamborghini?

For the corners of the world unaffected by the cost of living or fuel prices, there’s a new bike/car pairing specially for you. If you’re in Miami at the Miami…

Entered the Dirty Reiver? Don’t Panic!

Entered the Dirty Reiver? Don’t Panic!

If you’ve entered the Dirty Reiver, maybe you’ve got your training plan all worked out and are full of good intentions. Or maybe you’re just a little bit worried about…

YT goes gravel with the SZEPTER

YT goes gravel with the SZEPTER

How do you pronounce that then? YT Industries has always been a mountain bike brand but now it’s getting into where mountain biking first started: gravel. And because it is…

ENVE G Series Dropper for Gravel and Racers

ENVE G Series Dropper for Gravel and Racers

The ENVE G-Series Dropper post weighs 395g, can be cut to fit the riders need, features stealth routing, has a drop-bar specific lever that is accessible from both the hoods…

East Anglian Way is a 500km bikepacking non-event

East Anglian Way is a 500km bikepacking non-event

What is The East Anglian Way? It’s a route around East Anglia (funny that) that takes in some Napoleonic forts, castles and cathedrals. Basically loads of back country roads filled…

“40-50mm of travel simply isn’t enough stroke to take any meaningful impacts”

“40-50mm of travel simply isn’t enough stroke to take any meaningful impacts”

Cotic has nailed its colours to its marketing mast by coming out against the new breed of gravel suspension products. A newsletter from Cotic just arrived in our inbox with…

Campagnolo goes gravellissimo with new Levante wheelset

Campagnolo goes gravellissimo with new Levante wheelset

Campagnolo has announced its first wheelset for gravel bikes. Called the Campagnolo Levante, the wheelset is named after an easterly wind of the Mediterranean. Because Campagnolo. Campagnolo Levante Wheelset nutshelled:…

Tailfin’s new dry bag storage system and cargo straps

Tailfin’s new dry bag storage system and cargo straps

The new Tailfin Cage Pack System aims to do exactly what it says: to be a better way of attaching dry bags to your bikepacking rig. The most straightforward method…

Salsa Journeyer ditches The Man and embraces everyone

Salsa Journeyer ditches The Man and embraces everyone

Previously known as the Journeyman, the renamed Journeyer is Salsa’s do-as-much-as-possible bike. Dropbar or flatbar. Covered in bosses. Nice paintjobs. Salsa Journeyer nutshelled 6061-T6 aluminum alloy 12 x 142 mm…

Garbaggio Nutmegger – Built to forgive bad decisions

Garbaggio Nutmegger – Built to forgive bad decisions

Hannah is out at the Sea Otter Classic in California, USA. It’s a four day festival of racing and a huge expo area. There are races for every type of bike, but…

Spotted at Sea Otter: Prototype Vitus Gravel Bike

Spotted at Sea Otter: Prototype Vitus Gravel Bike

Hannah is out at the Sea Otter Classic in California, USA. It’s a four day festival of racing and a huge expo area. There are races for every type of bike, but…

Fox 32 Taper-Cast Gravel Fork finally made public

Fox 32 Taper-Cast Gravel Fork finally made public

Looking every inch (or should that be every two inches?) like a 90s MTB fork from Marzocchi, here is the Fox 32 Taper-Cast.

Cannondale Topstone Carbon shock-less full susser

Cannondale Topstone Carbon shock-less full susser

Cannondale Topstone Carbon sees improved geometry and Kingpin shock-less suspension. Designed to go anywhere and ride everything.

‘Proper Charlie’ gravel trouser range

‘Proper Charlie’ gravel trouser range

Our very own Charlie has decided that local competition is good, and is dipping a toe – or rather both legs – into the trouser market. Inspired by his years…

New Hutchinson Tundra Tyre – What Tyres For Wet Gravel?

New Hutchinson Tundra Tyre – What Tyres For Wet Gravel?

Ah, the long dusty roads of Kansas, the white ribbons of the Strada Bianche… these are the dreams on which we are sold ‘gravel’. Off we go, out the door,…

Salsa Stormchaser: for when dirt turns to mud

Salsa Stormchaser: for when dirt turns to mud

Salsa Stormchaser is a gravel bike built for "adverse conditions". Designed for comfort, confidence and durability.

New Assos Mille GTC: Gravel Specific Gear

New Assos Mille GTC: Gravel Specific Gear

Love your Assos kit but don’t want to wear your road gear on the gnarmac? Mountain bike baggies spoiling your gravel grinding? Fret no more: Assos has now brought out…

The Stanton Switchpath Ti – Gravel with a grin

The Stanton Switchpath Ti – Gravel with a grin

Stanton Bikes has launched its first ever bike that’s not a mountain bike: the Switchpath Ti. If you count measuring your tyres in mm rather than inches as the criteria…

New Surly Ghost Grappler

New Surly Ghost Grappler

The Ghost Grappler is a new ‘drop-bar trail bike’ from Surly. Is that going to be the next thing? Drop Bar Trail. Soon to be followed by Drop Bar Downcountry?…

New Sonder Camino – even better than before?

New Sonder Camino – even better than before?

When Hannah reviewed the Sonder Camino, it was only finances that stopped her buying it and keeping it forever. It was, in short, a very good bike. So how could…

New Cotic Cascade – just what sort of bike is it?

New Cotic Cascade – just what sort of bike is it?

The new Cotic Cascade is a…erm…what is it? It’s a bike that sits between the Cotic Escapade and the Cotic SolarisMAX. It’s designed for drop bars, but the angles mean…

British Success at 2022 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships

British Success at 2022 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships

Not giving it away in the headline, in case you’ve yet to watch the racing in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but it was a weekend of great results for Britain in the…

New Canyon Grail – Alloy and Carbon – In Stock Now

New Canyon Grail – Alloy and Carbon – In Stock Now

The 2022 editions of the Canyon Grail are now available on the Canyon website. For 2022, there’s a return of the Canyon AL alloy model, plus a range of component…

Donate and Win: The Dream Gravel Bike by World Bicycle Relief

Donate and Win: The Dream Gravel Bike by World Bicycle Relief

Fancy a new gravel bike? Here’s your chance to win a very nice one while also making a donation to World Bicycle Relief. Or your can just admire what’s a…

New Orbea Terra – For the fun and faster side of gravel

New Orbea Terra – For the fun and faster side of gravel

Orbea’s press launch is at some pains to point out that the Orbea Terra is not a jack-of-all-trades gravel bike. They’re not claiming it’s amazing at everything, has no limits,…

New Giant Revolt – Revealed and in stock now

New Giant Revolt – Revealed and in stock now

First issued in 2013, the Giant Revolt now exists as two models: the Advanced Pro and the Advanced. The Pro is the lighter model, using an Advanced SL composite fork…

SRAM Launches ‘XPLR’ – Its Wireless Suspension Gravel Groupset

SRAM Launches ‘XPLR’ – Its Wireless Suspension Gravel Groupset

Today is a good day to be a gravel rider (whatever that is, but we’ll get on to that…) as SRAM is launching ‘XPLR’ – a gravel groupset with a…

Grinduro Wales – Pushing The Limits Of Gravel

Grinduro Wales – Pushing The Limits Of Gravel

Last week Amanda attended her first gravel bike race in Machynlleth, Wales. Grinduro aims to be the best elements of a mountain bike enduro with a gravel-style road race. Did…

Can you read this press release without dying a bit inside?

Can you read this press release without dying a bit inside?

Gravel teams are now A Thing, and LOOK has thrown its bucket and spade into the sandpit with a new gravel team and a press release. As we opened our…

Is Scott’s New Addict Gravel The Most Aero Gravel Bike Yet?

Is Scott’s New Addict Gravel The Most Aero Gravel Bike Yet?

Scott Bikes has had an Addict Gravel bike for a few years, which it developed on the back of the cyclocross bike of the same name. Now, however, the new…

Interview: Meaghan Hackinen, BC Epic 1000 Winner

Interview: Meaghan Hackinen, BC Epic 1000 Winner

The BC Epic 1000, a 1000km gravel event across BC, has been won by Meaghan Hackinen in a new Fastest Known Time for a women, and the second fastest known…

Three Peaks Cyclocross Cancelled Again For This Year

Three Peaks Cyclocross Cancelled Again For This Year

In ‘not very surprising’ news, we’ve just heard from the organisers of the Three Peaks Cyclocross that the 2021 running of the event has been cancelled. “But why is it…

Spotted: Fox Gravel Fork Prototype

Spotted: Fox Gravel Fork Prototype

Maybe it’s a deliberate tease, or maybe the sun and heat of Moab has gone to Geoff Kabush’s head, but his Instagram shows a new Fox gravel fork that we’re…

Cotic Tonic – A Limited Edition Titanium Gravel Bike

Cotic Tonic – A Limited Edition Titanium Gravel Bike

If you like the Cotic Escapade but are put off by the weight of steel, there’s now a solution for you: the Cotic Tonic – based on the Escapade’s geometry,…

CX World Champs Race Director Issues Statement on ‘discriminatory and hateful’ decision

CX World Champs Race Director Issues Statement on ‘discriminatory and hateful’ decision

Brook Watts, the Race Director of the CX World Championships in 2022 which are due to take place in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has issued a statement following the passing of recent…

Movie: Never In The Way

Movie: Never In The Way

If ever there was a short film arriving at the right time – it has to be this new gravel adventure from Trek and Anthill Films ‘Never in the way’.…

New Cane Creek eeSilk suspension seatposts – now cheaper and lighter!

New Cane Creek eeSilk suspension seatposts – now cheaper and lighter!

Cane Creek has updated its eeSilk suspension seatposts, now offering you an alloy model at a lower price, and a lightweight carbon model at only a slight premium. Don’t let…

Nicolai Reveals Gravel Bike: Argon GX

Nicolai Reveals Gravel Bike: Argon GX

Nicolai is known for making distinctive bikes – so what would a Nicolai gravel bike look like? Now, we can find out. ‘Blurring Road and Mountain Bike’ The Argon GX…

New ENVE Foundation AG25 and AG28 Gravel Wheels Launch

New ENVE Foundation AG25 and AG28 Gravel Wheels Launch

It’s not just mountain bikers that are benefitting from carbon wheel technology. The benefits of hookless beads and carbon’s light weight and impact resistance work very well on gravel bikes.…

The New Focus Atlas Gravel Bike

The New Focus Atlas Gravel Bike

“Made to Lose” Today, Focus is launching a new range of Focus Atlas gravel bikes, with a great amount of fanfare (it’s the brand’s first dedicated gravel bike, after all)…

Halo Releases Gravel Tyre Range

Halo Releases Gravel Tyre Range

The all new Halo Gravel Tyre range consists of three distinct tread patterns to cover all conditions and surfaces. Developed over a three-year period the range has been refined to…

Giro Launches The Helios Spherical Gravel Helmet

Giro Launches The Helios Spherical Gravel Helmet

Giro has been cranking out some fine new helmets in the last couple of years, with the top-end helmets, the road bike Aether and the mountain bike Manifest helmet, using…

2021 National Cx Championships Postponed, plus other cancellations

2021 National Cx Championships Postponed, plus other cancellations

If you were hoping to finally get out between the race tape, the opportunity has disappeared like grip on wet limestone. Along with the National Track Championships, the 2021 National…

New Highline XC/Gravel 27.2 Droppers from Crankbrothers

New Highline XC/Gravel 27.2 Droppers from Crankbrothers

Whether you’ve got an older frame you want to fit with a dropper, or you’ve got a wholly new fangled gravel bike which you want to take down more extreme…