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Video: Cape to Cape, a must-watch documentary about one incredible ride
Freezing rain, searing heat, illness, personal conflict, mob violence – this is one hell of a cycling adventure.
Bikepacking the Iron Curtain: A ride through European history
Join Markus Stitz as he bikepacks through history on the Iron Curtain Gravel Trail.
From The Service Course: Tajikistan - The Not Knowing
Wild, remote, unforgiving. The roads of Tajikistan are known for the ancient silk trade, but for Christian and Peter, this trip was about...
Colin Strickland's New Frontiers
In the lateset episode of Wahoo's Frontiers series, Colin Strickland talks about racing Red Hook, winning Unbound Gravel, and is quite ca...
Video: "I mean, what is gravel?"
Gravel riding means something different to everyone, and this video does a pretty great job at showing the convergence of cycling backgro...
Unhurried: The joy of slowing down
Markus Stitz is an Edinburgh-based filmmaker, photographer, writer, and the founder of Bikepacking Scotland. You might recall the two pre...
Gravel bikes were not meant to be ridden like this
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you put an enduro rider, decked out in lycra, on a gravel bike? Well, evidently the answer is...
Svein Tuft and Christian Meier, still connected
Christian Meier and Sven Tuft first met in 2005 when Christian was invited to join Canadian Continental Team Symmetrics as a junior, and ...
How to bikepack across dangerous countries
If you've spent any time at CyclingTips over the past few years you've probably come across Alee Denham's videos. Through his CyclingAbou...
Sarah Sturm is badass. Here's why
The measurement of success for athletes of all levels is oftentimes determined by the results in a race or a challenge. What is often mis...
What you missed at the Paris-Roubaix that never happened
There's no race as ardently mythologised as Paris-Roubaix. Raced through the working-class heartland of France on narrow farming roads an...
Video: Bikepacking for conservation in Colombia
In February 2020, ultra-endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox, adventure rider Joe Cruz, and filmmaker Rugile Kaladyte traveled to the Colombian ...
EF Gone Racing - Badlands
Before Lachlan Morton took on the Giro, he had other business to attend to. Truly mind-blowing business. Lachy finished the 700 kilometer...
This German adventurer is tackling the ultimate round-the-world expedition
German adventurer and ultraendurance athlete Jonas Deichmann is no stranger to obscenely hard expeditions. Among his many mind-boggling a...
Lachlan Morton's latest: 719 km in 43.5 hours through the Badlands of Spain
Lachlan Morton set off on Sunday from Granada, Spain, and is already back, 719 kilometers later, after racing through the remote, ragged ...
Video: A homage to the book 'The Rider' by Tim Krabbé
A homage to the book 'The Rider' by Tim Krabbé
An exercise in pointlessness: Emma Pooley on her world-record Everesting
Last month former world champion Emma Pooley broke the women's Everesting record, eclipsing the previous mark set by fellow Englishwoman ...
Ride to the race: Ultracycling becomes our climate conscience
GBDuro sees riders traverse the length of Great Britain following a 2,000 km route from the island's toe to tip. It is run by The Racing ...
How to make the most of your cycling during stage 4 lockdown
As of Sunday August 2, Melbourne is in six weeks of stage 4 lockdown to help fight the spread of coronavirus. Among the new restrictions:...
How to find the optimal cycling route
Here’s a thought experiment for you. Say you went out and rode every street in your suburb. What would the distance of that ride be? What...
Ted King's ridiculous 23-hour gravel ride across an entire state
Three weeks ago, on a damp night on the Canadian border of Vermont, Ted King set off for a very big bike ride. With a chipper ‘ciao’, the...