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Coronavirus, Culture, Features, Rides - July 28, 2020

How to find the optimal cycling route

Here’s a thought experiment for you. Say you went out and rode every street in your suburb. What would the distance of that ride be? What if you did it again, but tried to keep the distance as short as possible? How would you go about finding the optimal route? And how do you think …

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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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When the world went grey, cycling brought the colour back

There’s a wedge of bush – a kind of green island in suburbia – running over a freeway tunnel near my house, crowded with dense scrub and cut by two creeks. At the southern verge, a rough trail drops from the paved bike path and takes a serpentine route through the gum trees, over a …

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The space between us: Chasing distance in the wilds of western Scotland

Markus Stitz is an Edinburgh-based filmmaker, photographer, writer, and the founder of Bikepacking Scotland. You might remember his inspiring journey through Kazakhstan, as featured on CyclingTips earlier this year. In his latest adventure Markus bikepacks his way around the Argyll region of western Scotland in a journey that sees him explore the differences between social …

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Adventure, Alex Howes, Features, Rides - May 30, 2020

Forget Everesting, this is quite the opposite

There’s a stretch of gravel road that points straight through Eastern plains of Colorado, aimed at Kansas like an arrow. It doesn’t bend or turn, not once, for forty miles. There are roads that haven’t seen a tire for years. No human nor vehicle. Only hooves. The ride from Alex Howes’ mountain-town home in Nederland, …

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