Gravel, Grit, and Glory: The Maddy Nutt Interview

Gravel Racing is a rapidly growing discipline in cycling that blends elements of road racing, mountain biking, and endurance riding. It takes place on unpaved roads—typically gravel, dirt, fire trails, or mixed-terrain routes—and has become popular for its adventurous, inclusive, and challenging nature. Races are held on a mix of surfaces—gravel roads, forest tracks, farm lanes, and even rough singletrack. Courses can range from smooth … Continue reading Gravel, Grit, and Glory: The Maddy Nutt Interview

Chapeau

BY STEWART SLATER 2012 may have been a banner year for British sport, but 2008 wasn’t bad either. I was working in Singapore at the time, and whiled away many a happy phone-call back to London bantering about our latest gold medal in Beijing – “Oh, we’ve just won another one” regularly punctuating conversations. But I have one standout memory of that golden summer, the … Continue reading Chapeau

Cycle Nazis

BY MARK WELSH Freedom. Though I was far too young to grasp the concept, that’s exactly what my first bike represented. Shorn, eventually, of stabilisers, those first few tentative pushes on the pedals of my tiny Raleigh opened up a whole new world. Endless possibility awaited, mine to discover as I managed those first few wobbly yards alone. The mysteries beyond the end of the … Continue reading Cycle Nazis