<Back to News Home | Monday Motivation: Event Day! The training is done, the gear has been selected, and now you find yourself at the venue for the event. If you are a bit nervous, that’s par for the course. Worries about having everything with you? That’s normal. Forgotten something? Just improvise. Event day is always […]
<Back to News Home | Checkpoint: I’ve been running the Gary Sweep OS bars every chance I could get between cold snaps and being sick since the introduction which you can check out HERE. One thing I wanted to cover regarding the comments on that first post is that this bar doesn’t compare to any of […]
<Back to News Home Shimano announced today that several new road bike components were coming and of the crop listed this time, Tiagra 10 speed and the new road disc brake mounting standard are what grabbed our attention. Let’s start off with Tiagra and how things have changed from the previous version. Tiagra has […]
<Back to News Home | Monday Motivation: Wind- A friend of mine remarked to me after I had told him what I thought about the weather for the day by saying, “You cyclists are pretty sensitive about the wind, aren’t you?” I had to admit that he was right on the money there. But hey! You […]
<Back to News Home | Riding Gravel has just taken delivery of a Fuji Tread 1.3 bike that Fuji bills as a “Lifestyle-Cross Terrain” bike, but are eager to have known as a good choice for a gravel road/back road rig. The 1.3 sits in the middle of a three model range that tops out […]
<Back to News Home | Editor’s Note: With this being the first “Riding Gravel Rolling Review”, we are introducing some new terminology with the tried and true “long format” review process I have employed since 2005. The first post- the “Getting Rolling” post- will be an introduction and “first impressions” post. Stick around for the […]
<Back to News Home | You might remember the Riding Gravel Radio Ranch podcast with Gary Mendenhall when we discussed his event, the “Great Gator Gravel Grinder. (You can listen to that episode here) Well, they did a nice little, seven minute plus long video with some great drone shots that we wanted to […]
<Back to News Home | Monday Motivation: Solitude- Sometimes this day and age can drive you nuts with all the digital connectedness, social media, and constant barrage of information. There are times when shaking off the shackles of 4G and everything it streams is good. Just get on your bike and ride…….for miles. The clearing of […]
<Back to News Home | After a period featuring some cold, frigid Wintry stuff, I am back out on the Gevenalle GX shifter set up introduced back in January here on RidingGravel.com. (Click here for the introduction post) These shifters provide the path to getting the wide range DynaSys mountain bike cassettes and the […]
<Back to News Home | Monday Motivation: Open Roads! For many of us in the Upper Mid-West, the season is changing over from Winter to Spring. Along with that change we are putting away our fat bikes, getting out the gravel road bikes, and looking forward to March and April when the bulk of the […]
