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Adventure, Colin Strickland, gravel racing - December 31, 2020

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 candid about his decision not to race in the pro tour after being offered a contract with EF -- Education First.

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 ex-roadie-turned-gravel-pro rolled into the driving rain and the inky dark and set a course south. King didn’t know it at the time, but by the end of …

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Parlee Chebacco one-year review: Light, fast, and built for all roads

Twenty years ago, the boatbuilder Bob Parlee decided to make a change. Drawing on his experience with composite materials, Parlee started up a bike company in Massachusetts and set to work building custom carbon fibre bicycle frames. By 2002, his creations were being raced in Grand Tours. In the two decades since, Parlee Cycles has …

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Crusher in the Tushar cancelled for 2020

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Today, yet another mass participation cycling event was forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Crusher in the Tushar, the challenging mixed-surface race through Southern Utah’s Tushar mountains, was preparing for its 10th anniversary. That milestone edition will now have to wait until 2021. Race founder and former professional cyclist, Burke Swindlehurst, sold the …

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Laurens ten Dam, WorldTour hardman turned gravel racer

Life tends to settle down once a rider leaves the WorldTour. They get to spend more time with their family, life becomes less regimented and more relaxed, and the world opens up in an exciting (and sometimes scary) way. All of those things are true for Laurens ten Dam, but the Dutchman also seems to …

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Colin Strickland’s New Frontiers

Ted King’s ridiculous 23-hour gravel ride across an entire state

Parlee Chebacco one-year review: Light, fast, and built for all roads

Crusher in the Tushar cancelled for 2020

Laurens ten Dam, WorldTour hardman turned gravel racer

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