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Can You Ride Gravel In A City? | GCN Urban Gravel Adventure
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Gravel rides are all about getting into the wilderness, escaping from the hustle and bustle of modern life and embracing the wild, right? Well Si doesn't think so, and has organised an urban gravel ride in his home city, Bristol in England, with Conor to prove it! Can you really have a gravel ride in the city?
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What does gravel riding mean to you? Let us know down below 👇
pure fun off and on road
Im not limited to roads.
Most important is that I can ride anywhere, and I can avoid traffic. Special gravel bike lanes and I can use off-road discover the world. It's fun. But it also means getting stronger and healthier
Riding on gravel ;)
getting out there off road and exploring. curious, what Canyon model was Si riding..?
I’m 61 years old and do a ride like this at least once a week. It makes me feel like a kid again. I cut through parking garages. I ride the hike and bike trail. I go through alleyways and through drainage pipes. Lots and lots of fun for this old man!
Love the idea that gravel riding is just going on wacky shit and having fun with the bike. I think that definitely gets to the "spirit" of gravel riding; just get out there and explore.
Absolutely. I wouldn't call it gravel riding maybe but it's one thing that I love about my gravel bike - that it will truly take me anywhere.
Agreed. When I do road I care about distance and speed, but gravel I just wanna mess around
I live in Bristol and during lockdown did some exploring and recently stitched all the parts, (Bristol-Bath ralway path, Two Tunnels, Millenium Way to Nailsea with spurs to Ashton Court and Hengrove, Portway, Pill, Portishead, Lawrence Weston Greenway) together to make a 100.2 mile, 90% traffic-free, road bike friendly ride
I love finding new routes close to home. Its mixed terrain and it's fun.
🤣Si and Connor are comedy gold! more like this please. We are fortunate enough to live in urban areas that still have excellent gravel close to hand, but we also like to start off right from our front door step, so this urban gravel is great to see.. Also love Si constantly reminding how few cars they have seen is brilliant
Loved hearing Conor's comments and watching his reactions. Well done Gandalf.
Hi Conor, Gandalf does not go "Grarh!" He goes: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" 😂
Here in Toronto we have the amazing trail system that follows the Humber River, Don River and the lake front "Martin Goodman trail" all of which have off shoots to take you from paved to single track anywhere along the trail system. It is all within the city boundaries and sometimes you wonder where the city is, it can be so peaceful and quiet.
After watching this I need to rush out and buy a gravel bike, my road bike is so delicate it might break if it sees some grass.
Yeah, the gravel bike for me is the freedom to go off road like a hard tail mountain bike, but with near enough the speed of a road bike to get there and back in a decent time.
This brought back a lot of memories for me. My close friend at the time and I would always be on our bikes and go exploring abandon houses or woodland areas. I probably rode more distance then than I do now. But it got me into cycling.
Connor is adorable. lol “I’m a gentle giant”.
He reminds me of Jerome the Giraffe from the Friendly Giant show that used to be on CBC television! 🤣😍
Cooincidentally, here in Tallahassee, FL, a friend and I put in 100km, mostly on trails and dirt roads, including some single track. I would say the ride was nearly 50% off tarmac. In fact, we have an event called the Urban Gorilla (Feb. 12, 2023) that takes participants on a 58-mile route that connects many of the trails. I have yet to do it.
Living near Newcastle were super lucky in that all the old Victorian (and earlier) coal wagon ways have been turned into gravel routes. You can literally head from coast to city to inland 100mile countryside on 95% off-road. Epic.
Love finding all the hidden routes around the city. My personal favourites are through the nature reserves (bikes are allowed) by the river and by the canal. But also making use of the old bridleways.
Spot on! When winter comes I spend more time on my gravel bike exploring routes away from traffic and the roads I barrel down on my road bike in the summer. I agree all the paths do not have to be "gravel" just car-free. Often as in this video, they are littered with branches, leaves, snow, or ice, and the occasional person with a dog. Urban obstacles make the ride interesting and different. It's all about change and exploring. Thank you! I hope it will inspire others to look for the back lanes and paths they wouldn't ride on when training "in season".
In Denver Colorado we have the Highline Canal Trail that is over 70mi (112km) long that is half gravel and half pavement. It starts in a canyon where you can see big horn sheep and goes north where you can see more of the city. It is not technical and relatively flat so you can enjoy seeing the cottonwood trees and mountain views while being in an urban environment. Definitely one of the best trails in Denver!
Was watching this while I had Zwift on in the background - the POV from the GoPro on the pump track played tricks with my senses. Felt as though I was going over them myself. Legs and stomach went light! New genre on GCN training video!!
Same!
nice ride lads! it's really fascinating how much offroad-riding inside the city limits is possible. I explored some nice trails in my neighbouring city (smaller than Bristol) this summer on the gravelbike. nice shortcut on gravelrides around the city without any traffic.
To get the urban gravel bikes you need - do what happened in the '80's either get a saw and cut the curvy bits off your handle bars or fit a pair of flat bars - you have just reinvented the origins of mountain biking - just embrace it.
Yeah! mine is flat bar.
Open Street Map is great for plotting urban ‘gravel’ routes. When Covid lockdown started we did 100km with only very minor road use, and all within about 12km of home, and that didn’t touch the sides on what there is to explore within our city, and if you are willing to explore the links to the surrounding villages you get hundreds more km of off road fun. Canals, old railway lines, bridleways etc all add to the fun on top of the mostly tarmac cycle path network.
Brilliant video. This is exactly the kind of riding I love doing, getting lost and finding little paths and trails on the edges of the city. It's great fun.
Love it. Was the absolute spirit of cycling when we were all kids. Just getting out on our bikes and exploring the muddy paths on our bikes. Cycling for the joy of cycling.
Use to ride my road bike all the time but mostly ride a gravel bike now. If you are willing to give up chasing pure speed all the time gravel gives you many more options. Where I live in Utah USA lots of off tarmac everywhere.
Me too. 35mm tyres are much more comfy on crap roads.
Me too! I love doing off road on my Kona Sutra Touring Bike with René Herse Snoqualmie Pass tires 44mm. For what I can do at my skill, level it means I have a 'Gravel ' bike without buying another and the road bike languishes, because the touring is much more comfortable and almost as fast!
One of the best gcn videos yet! I was laughing so hard I was almost peeing myself! Especially as a Canadian! (Canadian wilderness! Really? Please! ) Here in Hamilton Ontario Canada we are blessed with some sweet off road possibilities: Niagara Escarpment Rail Trail, Hamilton-Brantford Rail Trail as well as the beautiful Dundas Valley Trails that Meghalie Rochette treated Manon to before the Paris to Ancaster gravel race.(Sadly, no "Mooses"/moose though.) The point is a good one. While technically not "gravel", there are lots of car free spaces/paths/pump tracks that you can explore in an urban environment!! Loved the dig at the UCI 'Gravel 'Worlds BTW! Loved the great spirit of fun you two! Now will someone please gently school Conor as to what a Frisbee really looks like? More great content like this please! What a great end to 2022!
Great to see my local pump track and regular off road sections being utilised for this urban crud riding video. 👌😍
Cracking way to ride your bike…I’m discovering all kinds of new (to me) routes in & around Belfast…it’s an amazing “Urban Gravel” city
We agree - keep exploring Nigel!
GCN at its best what a great year of content going from strength to strength while cycling tips is going down the drain
that might just be because GCN does advertorial and cyclingtips did journalism.
@@yoda112358 I’m looking at it from a pure entertainment point of view I liked the podcasts every week but someone was leaving every week I wasn’t a paid up member of cycling tips thank goodness
Conor's tires look like 26ers on that massive frame
Here in Hamburg (Germany) we have the "Green Circle" (Grüner Ring) which is a kind of official (advertised by the city) 100km "urban gravel" route around the city.
Sounds epic!
Thanks for sharing this ride, it was fun sitting home and watching this while recovering from Covid. Can't wait to get out there again!
I've been riding a gravel bike in the middle of the city for years! Urban roads can be quite bumpy in many parts and it's dangerous to be swerving or braking around bumps with medium to heavy vehicular traffic present. One obvious way to avoid that problem is use wide tires both for comfort and so you can just ride through the bumps instead of swerving around them all the time. And since gravel bikes have clearance for wide tires makes them perfect for this purpose. It's the main reason I bought a gravel bike even if I ride in the city the vast majority of the time!
Sort of route you can use any training type of bike on .. Bramble section would be out of bounds in the Summer when it starts to grow and spread.. Yeah as a kid we would be out on the old steel home made trackers in the woods. very similar to that stuff..
Wow I was amazed how much off road you guys got in, inspiring!!!
This is literally how we used to ride around as kids in the Seattle area; just bomb through parks, down berms, on side streets and alleys, on the board walks and bridges, anywhere there was room to get a handlebar through we would go on just to see if we could
i love just jumping on my cross bike and exploring. have found some amazing places to ride and seen things i would never see if i went that way in the car.i sometimes cycle to hertford from dunstable, then get on the river lea and head down to stratford. the views are great, not too many people.obviously pretty flat other than the odd lock
Very much the style of my commute! I do also do the occasional urban gravel London being huge fair bit of forgotten bits and bobs in surprising places!
Nice one been graveling round London Thames path and other routes great fun. Will take route 4 home one day better in warmer weather!
i used to work in central Edinburgh & i'd try to find a different route in every day .. after about 6 months i knew most of the cycle tracks & quiet residential streets .. With Edinburgh's history there are so many old canal tow paths & narrow gauge train tracks , i guess many other citys that used to have working docks will be the same
A bike is a great way to explore the city - or the local roads and cycle paths!
Excellent video, looks like lots of my gravel riding
Living out here in Las Vegas if I’m going ANYWHERE in the city I only ride my gravel bike. I have gotten away with some HORRIBLY ROUGH tarmac and paths on my road bikes, but they are vintage steel so may be the durability factor that got me through haha
I’ve been cycling in loafers a lot lately and now I think this video has answered all my questions.
Living in Yorkshire I'm spoilt for routes to ride, on or off road. Over recent years sustrans has done a lot of excellent work on the transpennine trail, making it more accessible. Large sections are now fully tarmacked but you can still find yourself in mud through the winter. I've been riding it a lot of recent months, it great. You can ride on it for miles and miles without any traffic. Any time GCN want a tour I'll gladly guide you guys. 👍
There's definitely some great riding there - the Trans Pennine Trail is fantastic!
Love the most southern point of Bristol that track #2 is great!!!
Connor's jokes are saving this route. We all know the reason Si likes urban gravel. There are zero cows!
This reminds me so much of riding from my dorm close to city centre of Prague… apart from the nice singletracks, which I haven't really come across yet.
Sadly, I no longer live there, but Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a fantastic city to explore for “gravel,” as these two have broadly defined it. And not just short bits. Of course, middle of winter in Minnesota makes for a bit more difficult riding than you’ll find in England.
Agree finding new routes close to home is always cool found a cemetery in the woods one ride through a county park was wild 1800!!!
Connor and Si so funny. Cool wee tracks though. Well done chaps. 👍
Here in Kansas the land of Garmin unbound gravel means gravel means gravel LOL.
And in Kansas snow means snow. The UK folks are using terms loosely for sure.
Great video! Exploring your own city, riding the tiniest roads or whatever you call it. Through the city parks, using that tunnel. You can do all crazy fun stuff with a gravel bike or even a crappy city bike of 100 euros really. I know, cause I did this a lot in 2022
Sounds brilliant - what was the best thing you discovered?
@@gcn these tunnels and secret bike passages avoiding cars, avoid traffic lights, keep riding, connecting with long routes. Several of these bike lanes were once the main and only roads in some directions. Some roads were once used for horses to tow a ship to get goods into the city. Now several of those are fast and interesting bike lanes. And of course discovering more of the long history of my city (but thats a different channel)
I want more of Conor aka Gandalf 🥰 he was epic like woaa! 😂
My city is very big in terms of area but only half a million people, so almost third of the city is forest or park areas, so there is plenty of “gravel” to find.
The helmet has a really nice design and I like the fit! Perfect for me.
Gravel bikes are a great idea for urban areas, at least in Toronto, because the roads are generally pretty terrible. The extra tire size really help mitigate potholes and large cracks
Something linking canal paths with disused railway lines is always good for me, with maybe a linking bridleway or small country road, just like the iconic Bath Two Tunnels Circuit in your own backyard.
We have some flowy gravel and trails here in Johannesburg. I ran my gravel bike when my hardtail wasn't available. I would do that again any time.
Cycling can always be fun, even on a gloomy, cold day. Good idea to think out of the box and go off-road in the city. No cows is a plus, too.
Yesss! Urban gravel - an underrated genre. I'd like to see Sam Pilgrim on a gravelbike 😉
For his riding style it won't work.
I’ve done some Urban Trails walking in Glasgow and fancied riding it, some lovely ‘rural’ type spots in a massive city 👍🏽🏴
This was excellent viewing 👍🏻👍🏻
Seeing the boys having fun made me happy! Thank you 😊 I need more of it!
Good ride but I bet the GMBN are quaking in the boots after seeing the jumps and how you tackled the gnarly bits 😅
Sometimes urban gravel is just connecting cyclocross courses together with road.
A hybrid lol
Starting and finishing in my two favourite coffee shops in Bristol any ride has to be a good one!
urban gravel biking is a ton of fun
cool video! It is fun taking a road bike into some skateboard parks.
I couldn't help but notice all of the fine artistic work (aka grafitti) throughout your video. Is that typical of your town? I have done rides like this before in my town but there are areas where i don't think i would take an expensive bicycle....like the tunnel you and Connor went through or some neighborhoods.
Bristol is famous for it's street art. Threr are some areas that embrace it. and there are also the less artistic versions. mostly the less artistic respect the artistic, which is nice.
There are many city roads in my city of Ottawa, Canada where I would not ride a road bike. So my gravel bike is aka Ottawa Road Bike. That being said there is plenty of excellent riding in the city as well as the surrounding areas.
That's an understatement! We used to always bring our bikes from Cobourg when visiting Ottawa. Such amazing off road paths! A true gem!
The pump tracks with snow look super fun.
I call them Urban Assault or Mixed Terrain rides. I put gravel tires on my mtn bike & do these type of rides all the time to stay in shape & stay off main roads, so fun!
When Si says, “To be fair even the World Championship had easier gravel than this” I was😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Gravel to me is riding off the tarmac/pavement and venturing out on a non-MTB. Love gravel as a great training option as well due to the increased resistance.
"Just messing around" sometimes those are the best rides. No particular route or timeline, just having fun and seeing the city you live in from a different perspective. Great video!! Still loath gravel though.
I think Connor should have used his 36" wheeled bike.
I would scream, wakey, wakey, in the middle of that tunnel to help the Connor out 🤣
That route is just like my doorstep rides getting out of the urban
"Oh, naw goes down there..." ? - I didn't really aurally understand Si there, but I know what he means and agree wholeheartedly. I bought a Gravel Bike this summer and boy-o! has it widened my horizons!
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That's some dubious product placement from Nike.
Now this is my kind of ride!
Nice Video. Looks like my routes in Berlin.
Could you make some science-video about riding bikes and Herniated disc of the cervical spine?
My joke is that the best gravel riding are the streets of LA. Cracked asphalt, potholes, man hole covers, LA streets are tough on a road bike. So I ride 35mm slicks on my Moots YBB and just bomb it. No need to find a line, I just roll over everything. Quite civilized really.
this, so much this. this is where a gravel bike shines, I can explore my metropolis (Boston in my case) with pretty few limits on where I can go if it's permitted, there's no cars, and if I am hungry or have a mechanical, no worries, civilization is right there. For me, its the strava global heat map as my planning tool, because you can see if other bikers have been somewhere.
I also recommend taking a look at OpenCycleMap (derived from OpenStreetMap data). There’s loads of gravel tracks in it near my location. It also has “named” long-distance cycle paths.
This is basically integrated into Komoot. One can switch to the opencyclemap map.
In our area of north Manchester, we have miles and miles of off road routes that connect the areas of the conurbation. Old railways and canal paths. You can ride within the city boundaries all day and hardly touch tarmac at all.
Sounds great - when are you next heading out?
Conor is a gem he is so adorable!!!
That flying disc that Connor found, looks like an Aerobie flying disc. They fly well in windy conditions as well as much further than a regular Frisbee.
Personally, this time of year here in Canada I would rather ride Zwift and miss out on the cold, wind, rain and snow. Another highly enjoyable video.
Thank you for the video!
Why hasn't anyone invented a ride DH with a road bike 😁
Si with his peak down at last!
Congratulations Connor for keeping it shiny side up this time, but where was elalto?
I've looked for the gravel in Tokyo, still haven't seen grass let alone gravel.
You Gents are having a Grand Ole Time... I'll stick to the road on my Trek Domane 2.0 with 28mm tyres in the good old USA. Enjoy GCN and GCN+ Tom from Cincinnati Ohio
Please come and do urban gravel in and around Copenhagen!
Forget the maps. Exploring new routes is the most fun on a gravel! Even those times when you get lost.
In Kansas USA we really have gravel backroads not just mixed terrain ❤
"Urban" seems so nice in your England. NYC has a few options, all consisting of more garbage and red lights than the last haha.
Gives new meaning to Bristol Fashion
Portland Maine has top tier mixed surface riding. Might be the ultimate gravel city in the northeast
What’s the icon next to Archery on the sign at 10:59? Hunting humans for sport? At least they have to get a permit.
I live in Leeds which is a big urban area. Lots of great gravel if you go looking for it.... not too many hills though. Great video guys!
Thanks - where's the best urban gravel in Leeds?
@Global Cycling Network . I live in South Leeds so often ride up around Garforth/Scholes/Aberford etc or over towards Wakefield. There's also loads of options off the Leeds/Liverpool canal as you get over to West Leeds!
Dirty Leeds
I live within the M25 on the Surrey/London border - and we’ve got some epic routes …. and even more when you venture the other side of the M25 …