Garden Route Giro Announced: A Six-day Gravel Stage Race
Gravel racing has grown and matured in recent years, stand alone events and series have gained popularity, and now the time has come for a truly world-class gravel stage race. The Garden Route Giro promises to be that and more. A six-day stage race through the stunning Southern Cape region, featuring ascents of some of […]
The all-new Specialized Diverge promises more gravel gnar
Press Release The freedom, the adventure, the community—it all begins where the pavement ends. This is gravel and we’ve been doing it before it even had a name. Whether you’re dropping the hammer on the gravel scene, bike packing into the unknown, or shredding flowy single track, we have the bikes and the gear to […]
Review: Titan Racing Switch Gravel Bike
A gravel bike can be tricky to justify if you’re not fully committed to the discipline. They are not an absolute replacement for a road bike nor can they compete with the capabilities of a mountain bike. In which case a gravel bike is often relegated to being a third bike or fourth bike. Every […]
Cannondale let’s you define “road-riding” with all-road range
For those ready to venture onto the dirt, the gravel, the backroads and beat-up byways, the bikes in the Cannondale SE Collection are your ticket off of the paved and predictable. Specially equipped with bigger tires, wider rims, and lower gearing, the SE versions of these road bikes offer more comfort, more versatility and more […]
Gravel Grinders: A journey from Houw Hoek to Vermaaklikheid
Like many good adventures, this one was born over a cup of good coffee one lazy afternoon in Stellenbosch. The initial plan was to cycle from Cape Town to Knysna over two days on mountain bikes, but this had been done before. After looking at the routes, it was clear that gravel grinders were the […]