Frontier 300 is back on the cards for 2021. 10 Forests, 20 gravel sectors, 30 hour limit. “We live on an island, everyone should ride across it at least once!”…
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2021 Canyon Grail Bikes Launch. Same Frames, New Spec.
The end of August used to mean that eyes would turn towards a bit of winter ‘cross racing. Canyon already has it’s top-end Inflite model, as ridden in the ‘cross…
Lauf Announces ‘Direct To You’ Direct Bike Sales
Today, Lauf has announced that, going forward, all sales of its True Grit gravel bikes and Anywhere road/gravel bikes will be done direct from its home base in Iceland in…
Santa Cruz Extends Reserve Wheels Reach To Road And Gravel
You’ll know of Reserve wheels thanks to its launch by parent brand Santa Cruz. However, given that Santa Cruz is also part of the family that holds the Cervelo road…
Canyon Inflite | Cyclocross Race Bike Gets Spec Update
Canyon’s cyclocross race bike, the Canyon Inflite, gets an update for this year. Will there be a race season to put them through their paces? With the Yorkshire Cyclocross points…
3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross Race 2020 Cancelled
It has been announced that the 3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross Race has been cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19. The Race Organiser issued this statement on the event website: Cancellation of…
All New Cannondale Topstone – Full Suspension Gravel. And Electric too.
Cannondale has updated its popular rear ‘suspension’ gravel/adventure bike with new models like the Topstone Carbon Lefty 1 and 3, with a matching 30mm travel Lefty Oliver fork. And to…
New Specialized Diverge – A Proper Modern Gravel Bike?
Specialized isn’t new to this gravel business, it would like you to know. Does anyone remember the ‘Rock Combo’ bike from 1989? We don’t blame you, it was only around…
Salsa Warroad Gets 2020 Update And UK Availability
The Salsa Warroad was reviewed previously by Tom Hill. This year’s model keeps the same frame, but you get new colours and new build kit options. Salsa offers three different…
Salsa Stormchaser | Hipster Niche or Tough Tourer?
Salsa launches the new Salsa Stormchaser – a singlespeed gravel bike. Priced at £1200 for a frameset, this is no student hack bike. The marketing says it’s for when the…
Review: The Kona Libre AL steers clear of niches
I’ve never been a huge fan of the term “gravel”, as applied to bikes. I can see the need for a term to describe machines that sit somewhere between cyclocross…
Bontrager Releases New GR2, wait… what? Gravel Shoes
Ha! Bet you didn’t know that you needed special shoes for riding gravel, did you? Bontrager begs to differ and has just launched the new Bontrager GR2 gravel shoes in…
Medals For UK At CX World Championships
The social media chat around the CX Worlds in Dubendorf was largely about whether the course was too boring and non technical, but that doesn’t detract from British success at…
How To Watch CX Worlds This Weekend
It’s the CX World Championships in Dubendorf this weekend – always exciting and worth a watch. Lucky for UK viewers, there’s both BBC coverage and riders to cheer for! Schedule…
RIP John Rawnsley. Organiser of the Three Peaks Cyclocross
We’ve just heard, along with many, many other cyclocross fans from the official Three Peaks Cyclocross social accounts that John Rawnsley, the creator and organiser of the Three Peaks Cyclocross…
Nukeproof Digger Gets Shimano GRX For 2020
What “started during an intoxicated conversation some years ago”, the Nukeproof Digger ended up as a cult product in Nukeproof’s range. And for 2020 it’s getting Shimano’s dedicated GRX gravel…
Halo Wheels Launches Dynamo Range | Get Lit!
Halo Wheels has teamed up with SP Dynamo to produce what it claims is the widest range of dynamo wheels on the market – and if they don’t have what…
EF’s Lachlan Morton’s First Go At The Three Peaks. A film by Rapha
Lachlan Morton, a pro road racer for UCI team, EF Education First seems to have a fairly benevolent and understanding employer. Given that his day job involves racing road bikes,…
Roval launches new top end gravel wheel set, combining super lightweight with MTB strength
Roval goes wide and light, but unfortunately not cheap for its gravel range
Rapha gets ready for winter with first ever range using GORE-TEX
First pairing of brands leads to three new jackets that should keep the worst of conditions at bay
Outdoor Provisions: A new kind of energy bar, with compostable wrappers
All natural products and flavours inspired by the UK National Parks. Sound tasty!
Is e-bike touring the new gravel riding?
Story from Ampler bikes shows that e-bikes are already opening doors to touring for more people.
Moots Announces UK Distributor – Titanium lust just got easier to get
American brand and titanium specialist Moots has quite the cult following, and is just about to get a lot easer to buy over here, with the announcement of a new…
Fizik Powerstrap X4 gravel shoe launches
The gravel revolution continues with specific shoes from Fizik
The Bombtrack Beyond Junior lets your children explore as far as you do
Our favourite bike of Bombtrack's 2020 range is too small for us to ride...
3T launches “entry level” version of Exploro model
Lower price point for the high-end aero gravel bike. It might not be "entry level" as we see it, but it sure looks good.
Introducing Spanner Bike – the Titanium Tailor for Discerning Gentlefolk
We love getting these emails. Every now and then, someone lets us know they have created a new bike company. Whether the end result is a bike that we’d like…
New SRAM AXS Force/Eagle combo available for 3T Exploro
3T joins a handful of manufacturers offering mix-and-match SRAM AXS
Grinduro Japan Launches This Saturday. Race Is October 12th
Grinduro, the seminal gravel experience where having a good time at the party is just as important as going fast in the race, has announced the location of its inaugural…
Kona launches aluminium version of its Libre gravel bike
Aluminium frame lowers the price point of one of our favourite gravel bikes
7mesh introduces modular jersey pocket approach – the Anything System
Before we go on, I’ll admit, it took me a couple of reads of this press release to get what was going on. We think it is probably one of…
BMC launches all-new gravel bike: be unrestricted with the URS
BMC takes its mountain bike knowledge and applies it to its first gravel bike: the URS. Check out how short that stem is though!
Spank Industries launches Vibrocore to the gravel market
Company brings mountain bike tech to gravel
Pivot Launches The New Vault – Now It Does Gravel
When the original Pivot Vault was launched, a half dozen years ago, there wasn’t really such a thing as ‘gravel’ riding or racing as such, so the original Vault was…
GT Announces All New Grade Gravel bike
The classic Triple Triangle remains, but it's all change everywhere else on the new Grade
Trek releases new Crockett models
Trek redesigns it's aluminium 'cross bike, adding a T47 threaded bottom bracket.
Shimano launches new gravel racing shoe – the RX8
Gravel specific shoes? Shimano shaves weight off mountain bike riding kicks.
Meet Stayer Cycles – builders of custom steel and now off-the-peg
London based Stayer is offering an off-the-peg option of its Groadinger gravel bike and we want one
A chat with Rapha – the Rapha Foundation, inspiring riders and more
Rapha launches charitable foundation
Entries For The 57th Three Peaks Cyclocross Race Go Live This Week
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Suddenly it’s time to start worrying about what tyres, what wheels and what shoes for the world’s most iconic cyclocross race, the Three…
The Highland Trail 550 starts this weekend and there’s a new way of tracking it
Get your popcorn ready to watch the action unfold

