Saoirse Pottie with advice and tips on how to try out bikepacking for the first time.

Gravel Union Talks

Gravel Union Talks is a podcast series full of inspiring stories, news and events from the world of gravel biking. Each month hosts Carlo and Olly will be chatting with guests who are passionate about riding off the beaten track… adventure riding, bike packing and gravel racing.

In this episode:

• Saoirse Pottie from Bikepacking Buds
• Hosts Carlo van Nistelrooy and Olly Townsend.
• GU’s editor-in-chief Olly on last month’s most popular articles on the Gravel Union platform.

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Links:

• The Gear - Kinesis Fernweh
  • Not many people get to design a bikepacking überbike tailored to their every need and with even the most minute of details perfectly executed. But then most people aren’t Emma Osenton. Kinesis Bikes brand ambassador and one of the most passionate and enthusiastic away-from-the-road riders you will ever meet, we suspect Emma wore down the team at Kinesis just by her sheer energy alone.
• Gravel Inspiration - Gravelling with your paintbrush
  • For many of us, when we take on a physically demanding multi-day gravel ride, trying to capture a smartphone snapshot of the different scenes that we witness along the way is the best we can hope to achieve. But for Nuri Galbe, gravel riding and sketching have become indelibly intertwined and is her way of bringing home some physical memories of what she encounters on her journeys. We chatted with Nuri after she took part in the recent GranGuanche komoot Women’s Rally in the Canary Islands.
• Travel Gravel - Mount Kenya by gravel bike
  • Was it possible to ride a gravel bike to the 5000m summit of Africa’s second highest mountain, Mt Kenya? That was the question that was keeping elite-gravel rider and event organiser Janosch Wintermantel awake at night. With the help of two local Kenyan riders he was determined to try and find out the answer.
• Bikepacking Buds
  • A non-competitive, supportive space where people live more adventurously. We connect people of all different levels and experiences that want to go on bikepacking adventures.