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Racing for joy: How Ian Boswell balances family, work and gravel’s new era

The former WorldTour pro reflects on life after the peloton, honouring Sule Kangangi and navigating gravel’s commercial evolution

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This bike has won Unbound Gravel two years in a row - but getting your hands on one may be difficult

The Rose Backroads FF reviewed

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'Winning Unbound gave me the career I always wanted' — Five Unbound Gravel champions on how the Kansas race rerouted their futures

'The race that everyone loves to hate' continues to define the gravel discipline and the lives of its winners

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'My body needs some proper rest' – Breaks, bone density and REDS concerns lead Carolin Schiff to call early halt to 2025 gravel season

'For quite a while I haven't had my period so right now the most important thing is getting that back on track, taking this seriously' says 2023 Unbound 200 winner

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'Gnarly conditions', a long breakaway and searing sprints – Rosa Klöser and Matt Beers victorious at Lauf Gravel Worlds in Nebraska

Sticky mud splits race with $100,000 prize purse, leaving Klöser and Geerike Schreurs in 200km break as Beers beats Keegan Swenson in sprint

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'I’m certain we’re going to see more collaboration in the coming years' – Are gravel domestiques coming?

Good artists copy, great artists steal. Gravel is coming for the roadie antics

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'You're not going to fake it up Columbine' - Keegan Swenson returns sights on fifth win at Leadville Trail 100 MTB

Four-time men's champion could go under 5 hours, 30 minutes as 'the race gets faster every year as people get more comfortable with altitude'

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From wild card to Unbound winner: Could Kiwi mountain biker Cam Jones be the first to dethrone Keegan Swenson in the Life Time Grand Prix?

Cameron Jones on racing on his own terms and forging his gravel future

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Pinarello takes Dogma off-road with new GR race bike, transitions Grevil to long-haul adventure

Pinarello Dogma GR ignores big tyre clearance in favour of aerodynamics and handling, while Grevil gets... a pannier rack!?

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'We were shattered. It took an eight-hour chase' – Rob Britton recalls overnight pursuit, catch and pass of Lachlan Morton for dramatic win at Unbound Gravel XL

'I look at a globe and decide where I want to go, not a calendar' says Canadian endurance rider about his second career on a bike

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'A bomb went off in my world' – Colin Strickland adapts to restoring collectable autos after stopping racing in 2022

Former Unbound Gravel winner reconnects with Kansas race in small ways this year but 'into a whole different space'

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UK brand Ribble just threw down a whole range of gravel bikes, and they're already taking podiums at some of the big US races

The carbon Ultra-Grit is used by the Ribble gravel team at UCI races while the Allgrit line-up includes titanium and electric options

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Ribble reboots its gravel lineup with two new off-road bikes

'Ultra-Grit' model joins the growing pool of big-tyre race bikes, while 'Allgrit' meets the demands of everyday gravel riders

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Unbound-tested: TRP Vistar may just be the drivetrain rival gravel riders have been waiting for

From Oregon’s forests to Arizona’s harsh deserts and the prairie miles of Unbound Gravel, we’ve pushed the new TRP and Classified drivetrain to its limits. After a month in the saddle, here’s what stood out

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Opinion: crashes at Unbound are inevitable, and that’s okay

"Crashes are horrible, but they’re part of the game. If we try to over-regulate Unbound, we risk killing the very thing that makes it special," writes Joe Laverick

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Elite riders feeling the squeeze in Kansas amid lightly vetted fields and chaotic aid stations - Unbound Gravel 'needs standards, not red tape'

'Gravel is not the quirky cousin of road racing anymore. I want it to be fair, safe and professional,' says former Unbound 200 champion Lauren De Crescenzo

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Unbound Gravel rider left injured, in ditch for 90 minutes before aid arrived - ‘I wanted to leave my body’

Klara Sofie Skovgaard calls on Unbound organisers to improve emergency access

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Unbound Tech Gallery Part 2: More bikes, a TRP x Classified groupset, 350-mile XL hacks and a whole heap of fun stuff

The final flurry of nerdy details found among the 5000+ bikes that swarmed Kansas

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The race-winning bike setups of Unbound Gravel 2025: Which tyres and drivetrains ruled the Flint Hills?

Here are the battle-tested rigs that crossed the line first. What they have in common just might surprise you.

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I came to Unbound just for the Shake-Out Rides

Instead of racing, I participated in 201 miles worth of group rides

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'Good day until blood came out' - The Unbound Gravel mishaps and misadventures that took their toll in 2025

A catalogue of the crashes, broken wheels, barbed wire encounters and wrong turns that ended races and curtailed results

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Unbound Tech Gallery Part 1: Disc wheels, five new bikes, strange two-valve wheels and a five-week-old kitten

The first instalment of the weird, wild and wonderful bike tech found in Emporia at Unbound Gravel

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Unbound Gravel shakes up women's Life Time Grand Prix wildcards as Cameron Jones slots into series with tie for third on men's overall leaderboard

Three top women's wildcard contenders after Sea Otter Gravel all DNF at Unbound 200, leaving them out of running

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From surprise Unbound 200 win in 2024 to a crash, wrong turn and fourth place in 2025 – ‘That’s racing' says Rosa Klöser

'I will, for sure, come back next year and try to better that result,' defending champion says about Kansas campaign

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'Completely wrecked' – Cecily Decker clinches runner-up spot at Unbound 200 despite botched feed setback

'Obviously attacking at mile 40 and going off the front was super, super risky but it was really worth it' says podium finisher

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