Next up, the Best Race Coverage award. It rewards the best non-livestream coverage of a gravel race, including Instagram coverage, highlights, recaps, and any other form of race coverage.
And the winner is...
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Who was the best team in gravel racing 2025? The winner of our Best Gravel Team2025 All Gravel Award happened to sweep the men and women categories.
The honor goes to
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Part 2 of my 2026 Gravel Power Rankings is out. This time, we look at the top 25 pro women.
Tough one!
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Next up: The Most Exciting Newcomer - Women at the 2025 All Gravel Awards.
Gravel Hall of Famer Amanda Nauman Sheek pays tribute to the receiver 👇
The winner of the Most Interesting Setup - Men 2025 All Gravel Award is...
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Are we heading into a Gravel Bubble? Had the great Maddy Nutt on to explore that question.
Do we have too many races? Is it getting harder to be a gravel pro? How many days can normies race? This and more: open.spotify.com/episode/7mvo...
Whether you need to hide from your family or are about to ride your trainer too much, here's all the gravel-coded content for your holiday season escapism needs.
Plus, a Gravel Power Rankings sneak peek.
Over on EC, Alex Hunt has all the details on Santa Cruz announcing the htSQD is folding. The end of an era.
Y'all now what's the next domino to fall.
Map of the courses at The Rift.
The Rift adds a new 330 km race across Fjallabak to its menu. And normies can pick a new 60 km option. The 140 and 200 km races remain as is.
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You can apparently buy bib shorts at Zara Athleticz and a limited edition gravel bike from Ángel Cycle Works that is the result of a collab between the two.
Seems like gravel is fashionable, I guess?
I may have said it before, but I'd really like to ride the CheckOUT one day. It looks like a fun bike and Miles review confirms my impression.
Will have to check in with my LBS, who happens to be a Trek dealer, and see if I arrange a test ride...
Packed double header pod just dropped 🎙️
First, I talked to Morgan Aguirre about entering the Life Time Grand Prix next year.
Then, Holy Spirit of Gravel came on to close the book on the 2025 gravel season by revisiting our favorite storylines.
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Paris-Roubaix is moving in the gravel direction. Will we get a unified broadcast further down the road as well? (And would that be good or bad for the women's race?)
Who's your MVP?
If you haven't yet, you still have 3 days left to vote on the 2025 All Gravel Awards: escapecollective.com/who-is-grave...
Find out how to vote on the 2025 All Gravel Awards. Plus, my main takeaways from our UCI Gravel World Series roundtable conversation with Erwin Vervecken, Manager of the series, Rosa Klöser, and Paul Voss.
All in the latest The Gravel Stack edition:
Who is Gravel's MVP in 2025?
The nominations are in and now it's time for you to vote. From Most Valuable Riders to Most Exciting Newcomers, From Best Team to Race of the Year. Who you got?
Vote on the 2025 All Gravel Awards now. escapecollective.com/who-is-grave...
Alex Hunt continues to drop his great interview-based gravel topic exploration pieces over on EC.
This time around he talked to Rosa Klöser about equipment choices, course design, and more.
Read it here:
Invited Rosa Klöser & Paul Voss to a roundtable discussion with Erwin Vervecken, Manager of the UCI Gravel World Series (UGWS).
We talked safety, pro women's racing, coverage, and future vision for the UGWS, and much more.
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"Even with Grand Tours and Monuments in his pocket, Pellaud says training for the Life Time season pushed him into unfamiliar territory. 'The fitness is totally different to road racing.'"
Great profile of Simon by Alex Hunt on EC. Incl. some clues re his new setup next season.
Suvi Loponen sat down with Roman Arnold to talk about his return to Canyon's CEO seat and his future plans for the brand.
Good stuff. Even though I hope Roman sees gravel as more than a pathway to buying MTBs 😅
Whenever I see John Collins, it takes me a moment to realize I'm not watching J.R. Smith.
I just saw that I hadn't replied. I def typed an answer here but somehow must have forgot to send it 😅
Alas, I still don't know :/
Aaaand we made it. My All Gravel Awards ballot frenzy comes to a close. But not before I tell you who I voted for as Best Gravel Team and Most Interesting Setup.
Was a proper marathon 🤪
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The All Gravel Awards craze continues.
In today's edition: Most Impressive Performance, Gravel Race of the Year, and the Best (Live) Coverage awards.
Including my 1st flip-flop since talking to JP.
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I looked at the 2026 Life Time Grand Prix rosters and all the fresh faces joining the party.
From being star-struck on the women's side to discovering a new men's field that has all the ingredients to surprise us, it's all in my new piece over @escapecollective.bsky.social
You can also hear me not, for the life of me, remembering Jeff and Stan van Gundy's names "live" on air. 😅
But in general, sneaking in a bit of NBA talk in a gravel podcast never hurts, does it?!
Who is the 2025 Gravel MVP?
I had JP aka The Stable Cyclist on the pod to discuss our (preliminary) All Gravel Awards ballots.
From Most Valuable Riders to Best Teams, from Most Exciting Newcomers to Best Live Coverage, we had a lot to hash out.
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Thank you so much and I'm glad you do! 🙏
