Gravel Resources
Everything we’d actually send a rider to: planning tools, vetted routes, tire math, training, and the racing worth following.
Plan a route
ridewithgps.comOur pick
Ride with GPS
Where most organizers publish their courses. The planner's surface overlay and cue sheets set the standard.
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komoot.com
Komoot
Surface-aware planning and a deep library of community gravel routes. Strongest in Europe, useful everywhere.
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strava.com
Strava Global Heatmap
Shows where people actually ride. Street-level zoom needs an account, but it's the fastest scout there is.
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gravelmap.com
Gravelmap
Community-mapped gravel roads and sectors. Coverage is patchy, but where it's good, it's gold.
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trailforks.com
Trailforks
Better known for mountain biking, but the gravel layer is strong wherever local clubs keep it fed.
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epicrideweather.com
Epic Ride Weather
Forecasts along your route at your pace, not just at the start line. A few dollars, quietly indispensable.
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Routes someone already vetted
dirtyfreehub.orgOur pick
Dirty Freehub
A nonprofit hand-building five-star ride guides: surface, water, history, all of it. Deepest in the American West.
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bikepacking.com
Bikepacking.com Routes
Hundreds of documented routes across fifty-odd countries, each with maps, photos and honest logistics.
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adventurecycling.org
Adventure Cycling Association
The nonprofit behind America's touring route network, with a growing shelf of unpaved maps.
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Bike setup & repair
parktool.comOur pick
Park Tool Repair Help
The repair reference. If the part exists, there's a patient walkthrough for it here or on their channel.
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silca.cc
SILCA Tire Pressure Calculator
Pressure from rider weight, measured width and surface, by people who test this obsessively.
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axs.sram.com
SRAM Tire Pressure Guide
The quickest of the calculators, and it accounts for your rim width.
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renehersecycles.com
Rene Herse Tire Pressure Calculator
Built from years of real-road testing. Gives you a soft and a firm number and trusts you to choose.
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bicyclerollingresistance.com
Bicycle Rolling Resistance
Independent lab tests of gravel tires for speed, puncture resistance and weight. Numbers instead of vibes.
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sheldonbrown.com
Sheldon Brown
The eternal archive. Twenty-year-old pages that still answer questions forums can't.
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Training & fueling
intervals.icuOur pick
Intervals.icu
Free, serious training analysis built by one person who cares. Syncs with everything. Most riders never need more.
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trainerroad.com
TrainerRoad
The big name in structured indoor training, with plans built for gravel race demands.
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trainingpeaks.com
TrainingPeaks
Where independent coaches sell plans. Dylan Johnson's evidence-first gravel builds come up most.
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fascatcoaching.com
FasCat Coaching
Gravel plans and coaching from an outfit that's been at this for decades. The podcast answers real questions.
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precisionhydration.com
Precision Fuel & Hydration Planner
A free planner that turns your race into carbs, sodium and fluid per hour. Practice it before race day.
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Read
bikepacking.comOur pick
Bikepacking.com
The original. Route journalism, gear reviews and photography that makes you want to ride further than you should.
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theradavist.com
The Radavist
Bike culture with taste. Beautiful builds, honest reviews, essays from the dirt side of the sport.
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escapecollective.com
Escape Collective
Member-funded journalism with no advertisers to please. The sharpest race and tech writing in cycling right now.
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velo.outsideonline.com
Velo
The gravel desk of record for American racing. Results, analysis and the Grand Prix beat.
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gravelunion.cc
Gravel Union
The European scene's home, with stories, routes and rides from where the roads are older.
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thenxrth.com
The NXRTH
Wisconsin, Minnesota and the UP, covered with a care no national site can match.
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gravelstoke.com
Gravelstoke
Southern California's gravel culture, gear and group rides. Regional and proud of it.
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Listen
thegravelride.bikeOur pick
The Gravel Ride
Craig Dalton's interview show with organizers, builders and racers, one thoughtful conversation at a time.
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groadio.libsyn.com
Groadio
Gravel racing talk from people who actually pin numbers on. Loose, funny, informed.
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iamtedking.com
King of the Ride
Ted King on endurance and where the sport is headed, with guests who say real things.
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Watch
youtube.comOur pick
Dylan Johnson
Training advice from the research, not the group ride. Regularly upends cycling folk wisdom.
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youtube.com
The Ride with Ben Delaney
Gravel bike and gear reviews from a veteran journalist who tests things at actual races.
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youtube.com
Path Less Pedaled
The case for party pace. Gravel as culture rather than competition, with sharp takes on gear marketing.
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youtube.com
GCN
Skip the challenge videos; the maintenance and skills how-tos are a free mechanic school.
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The racing worth following
lifetimegrandprix.comOur pick
Life Time Grand Prix
The American super-series: six races, the deepest fields, the storylines that carry the year.
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ucigravelworldseries.com
UCI Gravel World Series
The world championship pathway. Qualify at any round, race for the rainbow jersey in the fall.
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gravelearthseries.com
Gravel Earth Series
The adventure-first world series. Wilder courses, smaller fields, a different idea of racing.
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belgianwaffleride.bike
Belgian Waffle Ride
The unroad originals: brutal mixed-surface courses that never decide if they're road or dirt.
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grasshopperadventureseries.com
Grasshopper Adventure Series
NorCal's spring institution. Low-key entry, seriously fast fields, courses with reputations.
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gravelnats.usacycling.org
USA Cycling Gravel Nationals
The stars-and-stripes jersey, settled on gravel.
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Find your people
Organizing an event?
Listings are free. Clubs and race series also get a free organizer page, linked from every event they list.
Know a gravel resource this page is missing? A planning tool, a training guide, a podcast, a community? Tell us and we’ll add it.