As a top-tier professional hanging up your racing wheels, there have been a few traditional routes down which retirement might be expected to take you. Team management is an obvious and well-trodden option, while opening a bike shop or becoming a winemaker seems to have been a popular one over the years too.
But in the past 10 years a new vocation has emerged that has proven increasingly popular with anyone left with a hankering to race on their own terms: gravel. This vibrant branch of bike racing has attracted former professionals in their droves, from Lachlan Morton, to Greg van Avermaet and Geerike Schreurs.
