A collection of news, stories, videos and adventures written by Gravel Bike California focusing on Northern California Gravel.
RSVP for June 24th on Facebook or Strava to keep up on details! To follow up on a promise made earlier this year…GBC is coming back! After having to cancel our first ever Send It Marin this January because of wet conditions, we’ll be returning Saturday, June 24th ready to run it back. The route …
If you follow our yearly Best Ofs here at Gravel Bike California, you’ll know this Send It is a special one as we’ll be covering last year’s top entry: Big Sur! This will be different from our other rides as this Send It will be purely for the scenery with many stops to enjoy this …
Exploring is a fun part of gravel, but tackling Midpen gravel made me happy to have some guidance along the way. Mike and Andy have some of the most extensive trail knowledge in the Bay Area to a Beautiful Mind type level, so handing over the planning of this ride took a lot off of …
GBC has been eager to explore the northeast corner of the state, but would Butte Meadows gravel deliver? It’s hard to gauge this part of California because info available online is mainly proportional to the number of people riding, so you have to rely a lot on local knowledge. Fortunately, our Facebook group is a …
Being Gravel Bike CALIFORNIA, all of our Send It rides have been out of Los Angeles obviously because of convenience, but the goal has always been to expand this community across the state. While the local rides have built up a good sized base, going outside my bubble has always been a question factoring in …
GBC LIVE covers Zack’s recent trip in Northern California presenting a Lost Coast Slide Show with Vic chiming in about some of the ride’s details: Lost Coast three day route on Ride with GPS:
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We’re all looking for excuses to ride around Monterey Bay and Aptos Creek gravel fulfills that need. Just to the east of the county seat Santa Cruz, this town has of discreet population of twenty five thousand tucked in a collection of villages between the coast and hills. Being on the southern tip of the …
Cover Photo: Andy Wong With all the great experiences Gravel Bike California has come across recently, you would think that our state would run dry on amazing rides like our water supply, but I welcome the opportunity to be overwhelmed at any point. I had seen through the Gravel Ride Podcast Slack group a number …
Sometimes it might take years to come full circle, but I’m definitely at the point where I can appreciate the offerings of Berkeley Hills Gravel. In what seems like a lifetime ago, I attended Cal and lived close to the campus, but I wasn’t much of a biker or explorer into the parks above. Ironically, …
