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Art Imitates Adventure: an Interview with Quind...

Art Imitates Adventure: an Interview with Quinda Verheul 

Multi-media artist and PEdALED athlete Quinda Verheul finds inspiration in exploration. Navigating her ever-broadening horizons on two wheels, she translates the diversity and disparity of natural and manmade landscapes alike...

Migration Gravel Race – Riding The Maasai Mara

Migration Gravel Race – Riding The Maasai Mara

A successful race starts with a solid plan—and that goes for competitors and event organizers alike. First introduced last summer, the inaugural Migration Gravel Race invited riders from East Africa...

Chatting with an ATLAS Mountain Champion: Robin...

Chatting with an ATLAS Mountain Champion: Robin Gemperle

We first introduced Robin Gemperle following his ultra-racing debut, a gargantuan effort in last year’s Transcontinental Race that earned the Swiss rider an impressive seventh-place finish. To kick off the 2023 racing...

Tour Divide Talk With Jay Petervary

Tour Divide Talk With Jay Petervary

The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route bisects the center to the United States, carving out a roughly 2,700-mile course along the length of the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico....

The Long Road to Ultra-Cycling with Sofiane Sehili

The Long Road to Ultra-Cycling with Sofiane Sehili

Based in the southwest of France, Sofiane Sehili’s love for adventure predates his passion for cycling—a sport he came to incidentally on a 2009 backpacking trip through Southeast Asia.

Robin Gemperle's Transcontinental Race

Robin Gemperle's Transcontinental Race

Prior to the TCR, most of Robin’s long-distance cycling journeys came in the form of bikepacking trips on his fixed-gear, challenges which helped prepare him for his first ultra event.

WATCH: #171 The Transcontinenatl Race Journey

WATCH: #171 The Transcontinenatl Race Journey

The brainchild of late-racer and legendary rider Mike Hall, the Transcontinental Race remains a truly unique institution in the world of ultra-distance bike races.

WATCH: The inaugural AMANI Migration Gravel Race

WATCH: The inaugural AMANI Migration Gravel Race

The inaugural AMANI Migration Gravel Race, held in Kenya in June 2021, has been a game changer for some of the top cyclists in East Africa. But this is only...