Gravel

Gravel community: Let's use words of welcome for our sport.

Jim Cummins fired by race owners Life Time Fitness after describing police shooting of Rayshard Brooks as 'justified.'

How to train now for a gravel race.

Five days. 30,000 feet of vert. Catered camping. And a plan to race this year with a 250-person cap.

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Gravel racer Katie Kantzes works in medical research at the University of Texas, and has spent the past few months studying the spread of COVID-19. Kantzes is doubtful that mass-participant races can continue unchanged in 2020.

I dove deep down the rabbit hole of van conversion research, and let me tell you, it’s a slippery slope.

Gravel Worlds cancels due to travel uncertainty caused by coronavirus. Entries for this year's event can be deferred to 2021.

Event organized by former road pro Laurens Ten Dam drew more than 650 participants and saw riders around the globe grinding in tribute to Dirty Kanza.

How does it feel to ride 355 kilometers from the Colorado mountains to the Kansas border? Alex Howes and former VeloNews staffer Spencer Powlison share their experience.

With safety as a priority it may be unlikely, yet gravel organizers and athletes are staying positive.

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U.S. national road champion to ride from Colorado mountains to Kansas border with former VeloNews web editor Spencer Powlison.

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Most gravel riders with a single ring use a 42-tooth option. Ashton Lambie, who has set world records and won world-championship medals, is not most riders.

Dynaplug ups the ante on high-end, lightweight plug tools.

Road pedals, mountain-bike pedals, or 'gravel-specific' pedals? Here's my take after using all three.

How I keep the stoke fire burning, and how you can, too.

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Organizers cancel SBT GRVL, citing the safety of the Steamboat Springs community during the coronavirus pandemic.

A brief tale of Mr and Mrs Narwhal, the Dirty Kanza aero bars. Also, remote shifting? Yes, please.

Participants can defer their entry to 2021 or 2022.

The new gravel race in western Colorado will open registration to women only on Mother's Day, Sunday May 10.

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Hydraulic damping, hidden storage, and progressive geometry refine the gravel bike from the Big Red S.

Here is the gear I chose for a 140-mile, 14,000ft, local substitute for the actual Belgian Waffle Ride.

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Ted King's #DIYGravel events honor the original race calendar.

Why are we compromising on fit and convenience?

The Iowa City cyclocross event will be held October 9 - 11, 2020.

Alison Tetrick joins tech editor Dan Cavallari to chat about training during Covid-19, recovering well, and carrying positivity in a whiskey flask.

Before the lockdown, I took my new bike to Arizona. Here's the lowdown on the parts I'm using.

September 12 alone has four major gravel racing events. But will they happen?

Life Time and the Kaw Nation issue an open letter to the gravel community.

Gravel bikes have gone soft! Suspension has taken over in some form, from flex to decouplers to actual suspension systems. Is it necessary?

VeloNews reader poll selects the fifth Monuments of Gravel, joining The Mid South, Belgian Waffle Ride, Dirty Kanza, and SBT GRVL.

How some communities are using cycling to support small businesses, and give people a meaningful reason to ride.

Ride alone, pack your own snacks, know thy spigots, and other helpful rules for those who can still get out.

No matter your budget, here’s how you can spend wisely on your gravel gear.

Missing out on a race? Here are three suggestions for Plan B.

Registration for the mixed-terrain California event opens Tuesday, May 12 at 7:00PM PDT.

The 200-mile race will slot in the weekend after Rebecca's Private Idaho but on the same day as Grinduro California.

No-strap bags are made to fit each of Niner's frame sizes.

Nine questions with the WorldTour pro turned Queen of Kanza.

A story involving rider and doctor Kathryn Eastley Krughoff reminds Ben Delaney how to live with good humor and grace during these nervous times.

The marquee gravel race had to cancel its two in-person training camps. Now, they've invited anyone to join in a virtual gravel gathering.

Look sharp while riding rocks in our favorite gravel bike apparel selections for the year.

Look sharp while riding rocks in our favorite apparel selections for the year.

Betsy Welch and Ben Delaney picked out gear for 104 miles of Oklahoma mud at The Mid South. Find out how it all fared.

On this week's episode we discuss The Mid South's decision to continue amid the coronavirus pandemic. We also speak to race winner Hannah Finchamp.

Beer-can shims, peanut-butter mud, and mud-puddle bike washes. Racing in Oklahoma was wild.

Nurses, doctors, EMTs, and firefighters are truly grinding it out right now. Let's say thanks.

Tequila feed zones? Mariachi bands? The Spirit World 100 and other grassroots gravel races succeed by putting the experience ahead of the competition.

VIDEO: Amanda 'The Panda' Nauman won the 100-mile Oklahoma gravel race in 2018 race, and she returns to Stillwater to contest for the win.

All riders who registered for the San Diego BWR will be automatically transferred to the November 8 date.

But as concerns over the coronavirus grow and recommendations for social distancing evolve, the organizers of the world's marquee gravel event know that things could change at any minute.

Payson McElveen's normalized power was 323 watts for his winning ride. Hannah Finchamp's normalized power was 202 watts - for 8 hours.

The Mid South was held as the global pandemic around COVID-19 escalated. This is what the race promoters, local authorities, and participants had to say about the event.

Colin Strickland, winner of the 2019 Dirty Kanza, is among the favorites for The Mid South, being held March 14 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He'll be racing this new-graphic Allied Able with matching new Rapha Meteor x Allied kit. More than 2,000 racers signed up for the 100-mile race on the burnt-orange clay roads, but fewer than that will take the start because of the coronavirus. For the design, Strickland provided designers references from the hills around his home in Austin, Texas.

It's been a long, strange trip for many who are in Stillwater for The Mid South gravel race, but spirits are high even as mud is likely.

Danny Summerhill trained hard to qualify for the Olympics, but the U.S. men's team didn't make it. He's redirected that fitness towards gravel.

In muddy years at The Mid South, a singlespeed with huge clearance is a great option. And that's exactly what the Stormchaser is.

I'm headed to The Mid South, hoping to get the line first for the famous Bobby Wintle hug. Oh, and here are my coronavirus-avoidance tips as a long-time bike racer...

Six students from the Thaden School in Bentonville, Arkansas head to Stillwater for their second event as a school-sponsored gravel team.

My colleagues Betsy Welch, Brad Kaminski, and I are headed to Stillwater to race The Mid South. Will our plans match reality?

Rain, orange mud, and riders with Paris-Roubaix and Tour de France experience all scheduled to descend on the first Monument of Gravel.

Big Sugar's organizers will earmark 100 spots for women after initial registration numbers were lower than expected.

No matter which bike you pick for the Crusher, at some point it's going to be the wrong choice.

What drew elite riders to SBT GRVL? Sure, there's the challenging course, beautiful scenery, and great spot on the calendar. But for some, the $28,000 in prize cash was more than enough motivation to race.

How can a first-year event become a Monument? In 2019 the SBT GRVL race became one of the most popular in the country by offering cash payouts and striving for gender parity.

From singletrack and gravel to the Grasshopper Super Sweetwater on Canyon Grail models from $1,899 to $4,999.

We check out Michael Marcxk's Canyon Ultimate. You've probably never seen a gravel race bike with a 55t chain ring and Speedplay pedals.

The Belgian Waffle Ride's punishing course and huge media footprint have attracted elite riders from multiple disciplines and helped drive them toward gravel racing.

What tires and other gear should you run at Dirty Kanza 200? Ask the woman who should know.

Dirty Kanza 200 was our only unanimous selection to the VeloNews Monuments of Gravel list, and it's easy to see why. The 200-mile race has become the most famous and prestigious gravel event on the planet.

Peter Stetina and Kristen Faulkner won Saturday's Super Sweetwater, the original event of California's Grasshopper Adventure Series.

Revelate has a full suspension frame bag on the market that fits just about any bike with horizontally-mounted suspension. We took it bikepacking and to our local lunch ride to see how it fared.

After 10 years of training for top-level road racing, I'm now charting a new course with my coach Scott Nydam.

How committing to an event improves your whole season.

King offers her experiences of riding late into her pregnancy, and what she learned along the way. She and her husband—retired WorldTour pro and current gravel racer and ambassador Ted King—are expecting a girl on March 17.