While I absolutely love the Eastern Sierra and this event, Mammoth Tuffest has been the distance I’ve avoided because of its difficulty far beyond what people perceived. Biking in the Owens Valley always goes against its stated numbers thanks to the high elevation and pumice that can suck your energy very fast. What I had […]
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If you’re looking for an entry point into gravel for any level of rider, you can’t find a better place than Bike Dog Brewing’s Thursday night Shred Dog ride out of In Velo Veritas. It all starts with community and Sacramento has one of the best along with its overlapping cyclocross scene. Part of what
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While an event as substantial as the Tour de Big Bear can rest on its laurels, every year they look to raise the bar and the Dirty Bear 50 is no exception. Already well known for the road rides, gravel has been relatively new and mountain biking was a new inclusion this year. This year’s
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In the information age there shouldn’t be that many gotchas, but the greatness of Yreka gravel should come as no surprise. There have been many times driving around California I’ve looked off-road and thought the riding would be amazing. Going through Siskiyou County there were more clues than normal seeing an abundant number of clean
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While this is a gravel page, biking Mont Ventoux is relevant to everything I’ve ever done. We ride bikes to expand our boundaries of adventure and every outing may not be of that variety, but each stroke we take leads us there. Mont Ventoux is part of a special subset of world renowned climbs, especially
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Chino Hills gravel hits a lot of high notes, but that’s also the reason some caution needs to take place. The two biggest questions I get about routes are how is the riding and what are the views like? The answers for Chino Hills are simple because it scores high in both, even providing a
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We’ve been trying to slant towards highlighting shorter rides that still bring a robust experience and Pismo Preserve Gravel fills up those check boxes. Last year I combined my family vacation with a SLO GRVL Send It up to TV Tower Rd, but while I like coming mid-week to make San Luis Obispo’s Higuera St.
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It’s hard to tell if you’ve never done a Taco Bell Century if it’s a good idea and maybe finishing one doesn’t clear it up either. Kevin and Priscilla of Grizzly Cycles are veterans with this being their fifth edition and perhaps the toughest. Doing a 105 mile clockwise loop out of Grizzly Cycles into
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While proms have themes, the expectation that something similar could encapsulate a particular Sea Otter Classic is a bit of an overreach. Every year innovations and trends always progress, but change in the bike world doesn’t happen at a rapid nor glacial pace. Instead, I call it at human scale as there are no instant
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We all want to make the most of an opportunity, but sometimes less is more. When I was coming out for my first Everyone Loves Raymond two years ago, I wanted to see it all and bike the ninety mile Kegger. Under ride organizer Henry’s suggestion instead of doing the combined routes, we did the
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