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…
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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…
Frontier 300 – Will You Make Brunch on The Beach?
“We live on an island, everyone should ride across it at least once!” So say the folks behind the new Frontier 300, a coast to coast event organised between the…
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…
The 2020 Naughty Frontier – Gravel Enduro Launches
The team behind the hugely popular Naughty Northumbrian mountain bike enduro race has just announced a gravel version, called the Naughty Frontier. What it ISN’T is a long 200km non-competitive…
I Just Want To Ride – Lael Wilcox and the 2019 Tour Divide
There was a bunch of controversy around this year’s Tour Divide, with the lead up to it marked by the kind of kerfuffle that the internet breeds best (or worst).…
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…
Review: The Nukeproof Digger Comp puts the grin into gravel grinding
Nukeproof is a name that a lot of you will recognise from the mountain bike world, where the company has a high profile on the DH scene, and its Mega…
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!
Spanner Bike Haute Gravel Review | Titanium Twin Tube Madness!
The Spanner Bike Haute Gravel is a titanium drop bar bike that’s something of an exercise in ‘because you can’, demonstrating what you could do with the help of Spanner…
Gravel gets rad: First Look – Stayer Groadinger
We get our hands on Stayer's off-the-peg steel graveller
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…
Meeting the Mehteh: a review of Brother Cycle’s new gravel bike
The Mehteh is a big clearance Brother, but this ain't no drop handlebar mountain bike. Find out what we thought of this bruiser of a gravel bike.
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.
Pathfinding again. Reviewed: Sven updates its stainless do-it-all and we ride it
Two years on from the original, does the Pathfinder still hold its own amongst a new wave of rowdy gravel bikes?
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 Bike Packing Event | Dunoon Dirt Dash
Details of a new bikepacking event: the Dunoon Dirt Dash, organised by a couple of familiar names. You probably know who Charlie the Bikemonger is. Now, he’s Charlie the Ex…
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!
First Look | Open Wi.De – bigger tyres, tiny frames
Hannah takes a first look at the new Open WI.DE, which she got to ride around the dusty trails of Sun Valley, Idaho. Open Cycles was started by Andy Kessler…
Review | Genesis Fugio 30 – Classic Steel Looks, Modern Capabilties
Hannah takes on the top-end Genesis Fugio. Find out she got on.
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