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Jackie Tyson

'1,000 women is the baseline, not the goal' - Unbound Gravel and Lauf Gravel Worlds raise the bar in off-road cycling for women

Unbound Gravel.

Women represented somewhere between 20-23% of registered riders who took part in two of the largest gravel events in the US last year - Life Time Unbound Gravel and Lauf Gravel Worlds. They both have lofty goals to push those numbers much higher, even doubling the numbers in the near future.

There are more than 4,000 riders who now claim a bib number and plan to take on one of five routes at Unbound Gravel, May 30-31. So if just over 1,200 of those riders are women, is that a good number? 

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