The Strade Bianche may have a short history compared to some of the events on the UCI cycling calendar, but the annual trek across the Tuscany region of Italy continues to grow in prestige.

The 2024 Gravel World Championships are happening this weekend in Belgium, and all eyes are on one rider—Mathieu van der Poel. The Dutch star is back after his incredible victory at last year’s Road World Championships, and now he’s targeting the gravel rainbow stripes. The 182km course, packed with punchy climbs and fast, flat sections, is perfectly suited to van der Poel’s aggressive style. It’s no surprise that many are calling this race his to lose.

Here's how to watch the 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships on FloBikes, streaming only in US and Canada. The 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships brings the fight for the rainbow stripes to Flanders in north Belgium. This year's races will start in Halle and finish in Leuven adding up to a 135km ride for women elite and 182km for the men elite riders, kicking off at 8:15 a.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday.

In the medieval city of Citadella in Italy’s Veneto region, gravel racers will for the first time be awarded a UCI rainbow jersey. The inaugural 2022 UCI Gravel World Championships will take place this weekend, October 8th and 9th.

Here's how to watch the 2022 UCI Gravel World Championships on FloBikes.

Every year, there are one or two riders in the vast world of competitive cycling that capture my attention and imagination, not just as a cycling journalist, but as a fan of the sport. Recent examples include Remco Evenepoel’s debut WorldTour season on the heels of his annihilation of the junior men’s 2018 world championships, Christopher Blevins and Kate Courtney en route to their Olympic debut, and basically everything Mathieu van der Poel does.

The self-proclaimed “World’s Premier Gravel Event” is set to take the small town of Emporia, Kansas, by storm. On June 4th, the 2022 edition of the Garmin UNBOUND Gravel is expected to draw the event’s biggest attendance in its 17-year history, with 4,000 participants signed up to ride across the rugged Flint Hills of Kansas.

The Life Time Grand Prix is a competition comprised of six iconic off-road cycling races, which will be tied together for first time in 2022. The series combines three mountain bike races and three gravel races into an elite competition featuring 60 cyclists competing for a $250,000.

This weekend in Japan,  Taylor Phinney will zip up his EF Education First kit for the last time. He’ll pin on his numbers, and clip in for what is the final professional race of  a career that’s been beautiful, frustrating, and everything in between.  From the Olympics to the Tour de France to the cobblestones of Roubaix, there’s no one who’s done it quite like Taylor Phinney. He won numerous junior titles on the track and competed in the individual pursuit at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finished fourth in the road race and time trial at the 2012 London Olympics four years later, completed two Tours de France and last season came in eighth at Paris-Roubaix, his favorite race. He fought back from a career-threatening leg break sustained in 2014, and along the way began to ponder a life outside of professional racing. Eventually, the side of him hoping to explore art and music, the side of him hoping to dig deeper into a place rather than a suitcase… that side won out. We talked to Phinney about his decision to move on from road racing, how he reconciles the expectations held by others for his cycling career with his own ambitions and dreams, and what’s next.   

Colin Strickland has made a name for himself by producing big rides in off-the-beaten path races. After winning four consecutive Red Hook Crit titles, Strickland turned his attention to the burgeoning American gravel scene.

Below, you'll find Alison Tetrick's actual training plan from the run-up to the 2018 Dirty Kanza 200. A Carmichael Training Systems athlete, Tetrick has worked with coach Dean Golich since 2012. Tetrick put together this training program, and the "pro tips" included in our videos with the help of CTS.

Below, you'll find Alison Tetrick's actual training plan from the run-up to the 2018 Dirty Kanza 200. A Carmichael Training Systems athlete, Tetrick has worked with coach Dean Golich since 2012. Tetrick put together this training program, and the "pro tips" included in our videos with the help of CTS.

To call myself a retired professional cyclist would be taking a bit too much liberty with both the words “retired” and “professional.” A more accurate description of my current existence would read: “I am in recovery from a brief foray into the lower echelons of the professional peloton.”

By Reese Ruland

Below, you'll find Alison Tetrick's actual training plan from the run-up to the 2018 Dirty Kanza 200. A Carmichael Training Systems athlete, Tetrick has worked with coach Dean Golich since 2012. Tetrick put together this training program, and the "pro tips" included in our videos with the help of CTS.