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As we covered in Part 1 (Are Gravel Bikes Just 80's Mountain Bikes?), although vintage mountain bikes are not the same as modern gravel bikes, I think that with a few tweaks they can be turned into incredibly capable alternatives...
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Featured, Guides, Interviews, Journal, Routes
Local exploring has really been a theme for 20/21, mainly out of necessity, but...
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No, mostly. But also yes, sometimes. Although the gravel bike has graduated...
Featured, Journal
If you grew up in the UK in the late 20th Century, you’re likely to have...
With the advent of increasingly wide drop bars (anything from the modest...
In the late summer of 2020, my partner Charlotte and I decided to have a crack...
Featured, Journal, Routes
Many of us dream of touring in Scotland: the mountains, rugged beauty and...
In the book of Genesis, God said: ‘Let the water under the sky be...
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The New Year is usually a time for reflection, celebration and goal-setting for...
Featured, Interviews, Journal
Mechanic Joel Jones of Wayfarer Cycles, an independent bikeworkshop based in...
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Kicking off their world tour by bike, Lost Captures is the story of Yorkshire...
Wow, what a response to our AUTMNL ADVNTR photography challenge! Over the last...
Bucket List Rides, Events, Featured, Journal
A testing new string of bridleways, forest tracks, byways, field crossings and...
With Welsh ancestry, Chris Lansley’s journey through Wales on his first...
Round-the-world cyclist and serial adventurer Vedangi Kulkarni is no stranger...
Professional photographer and ADVNTR’s gravel correspondent in the...
Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, Routes
In early September 2020, Marcus Nicolson from Glasgow, Scotland, took part in...
Summer’s warmth might already feel long-gone, and the once dusty, dry...
As I rolled down to the start of the inaugural Great British Escapade, I...
When riding is central part of your life and things happen, you adapt, and...
Journal, Routes
Filmed on the Drovers Trail, a new 331 kilometre (206 mile) gravel bikepacking...
The icy rain blew up the pass, driving into our exposed cheeks like stinging...
Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, News, Routes
Sewing together a real patchwork of different landscapes from chalk downs to...
When we saw London-based off-road enthusiast Natt Williams preparing for...
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Matt Bark and his pals James and James embark on a rail journey with a...
I’d spent some time riding in Germany in the last year and had a memory of an...
Riders from around the globe pedalled out the miles on May 30th for Dirty...
The Dirty Kanza is a focal point of many international riders’ gravel...
There’s nothing like a country-wide lockdown to get you thinking about...
Andrew Cullen resides in Edinburgh and most weekends, hops on the train with...
If you’re an ultra-endurance fan, you’ll be aware of the Silk Road...
One of the best things about being a parent is having a good time with your...
Shimano are the dominant component supplier at Worldtour level with a 66.7%...
I don’t really know how I ended up on the start line of Further, with what...
An adventure exploring the wilderness of the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan...
The brief was simple. Build the most capable and fastest gravel bike possible....
When Focal Events, the creative force behind gravel classics like Dirty Reiver...
Suffolk is hardly the first place you’d pick when thinking of gravel...
From the Mid-West to Mid-Wales… Back in 2014 Gravel bikes hadn’t...
The 29th September marked the date for the inaugural Backyard Breakaway, hosted...
The 3 Peaks Cyclocross attracts competitors every year from all over the world....
In a bright, top floor studio on a cobbled back street of Edinburgh’s New...
Pathfinder: The slightly different Gravel Event No planned route…just follow...
At ADVNTR we love the big glossy bike shows, meeting up with the...
Another contribution from Alpine Gravel Junkie, Gairy. Having built up his...
Dirty Reiver 2019 As recounted by the pocket dynamo otherwise known as Cheshire...
Say hello, wave goodbye We have had a Sonder Camino on test for over 600km. All...
Yorkshire True Grit – Dark Skies Regular readers will probably be familiar...
A Winter’s Tale I last visited Rovaniemi in 2015, to take part in the...
Rapha Prestige Rapha Prestige is a worldwide series of unsupported and...
Now in its second year, the Dirty Boar is the Belgian take on the dropped-bar,...
“Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call,...
A dream come true? Imagine the situation. You have been engaged as a...
So, just what is Grinduro, an overhyped American export, or the best thing to...
Gritfest 2018 was a two day, stage race. Headquarters was in an out of the way...
The dust has settled on the third Yorkshire True Grit and this year there was a...
A weekend break in Derbyshire We all know that the point of a holiday is to...
Another ride report from on of our regular contributors, The Cheshire Cat, who...
Patrick Kinsella pops his gravel biking cherry by joining ADVNTR founders,...
Now in its third year, the Dirty Reiver 200 is firmly established as THE long...
The Cambridge Pork Pie Run is a 200km Audax taking riders from Girton, (just...
ADVNTR Regular, Bengt Feil decides to stick to the asphalt and climb the iconic...
Typically a destination for road cycling, Mallorca has a lot to offer those who...
Since its inception in 1989, London-Edinburgh-London has been Audax UK‘s...
Bucket List Rides, Journal, Routes
“Tour Divide is an ultra-cycling challenge to pedal solo and...
A week ago we told you about our Café Racer plans, and we all know about the...
Back in November we posted news on a bikepacking event taking place in January...
Rovaniemi in Finland is most famous for being the “Official home of...
The Bear Bones 200 is not so much a route as a concept. Since it’s...
Today, I dipped my toes into the arcane world of the ‘Audax‘. I...
I’ve kind of fallen for the Gravel/Adventure/Dropbar-lunacy scene. The...
Break out from the trail centre and see the wider world on this 100km ride...
Living in East Anglia you have to accept the trails you’ve got, there are...
I am a great fan of grass roots events, as opposed to the more corporate...
Keilder really is a long way away from Suffolk. Going to sleep at midnight and...
Oh man, the Tour Divide. What a ride, a dream come true, taking part in the...
