The (Tandem) Day Across Minnesota – The DAMn 240mi Gravel Bike Race for 2024: by Nicholas Garbis
The DAMn is Back I don't remember the day, or the time, or where I was, but I remember the feeling. Sometime late in 2023, I learned that the DAMn…
Race Report: 2021 Spring Valley / Almanzo 100 – Meteor Theory vs Heat Wave, Gravel vs Skin
This article comes to us from our good friend, Nicholas Garbis, founder and host of the Gravel News Network (GNN). Quick Background on Almanzo (and Meteor Theory) The Almanzo 100…
Race Report: The FILTHY 50 – finally filthy, so very filthy (Stewartville, Minnesota) – by Nicholas Garbis
One of the greatest mysteries in the Minnesota gravel cycling scene is how a race called the "Filthy 50" has gone so long without really getting filthy. I mean, it's…
Ride Report: The DAMN – Day Across Minnesota – 249 Miles of a 240-mile Race, by Nicholas Garbis
For a while, I'd heard it was not going to happen. The Day Across Minnesota, "The DAMn", which was run for the first time in 2017, was a massive undertaking.…
Ride Report – Germany – Gravel Adventure in Lower Alps of Upper Bavaria – by Nicholas Garbis
I learned a lot from cartoons growing up. Things like blues, opera, country twang, vaudeville, and that you can survive an anvil landing on your head after jumping into a…
Race Report: 2018 Almanzo 100 – Spring Valley, Minnesota by Nicholas Garbis
Almanzo 100, Spring Valley, Minnesota - May 19, 2018 It's the Saturday after Mother's Day in the town of Spring Valley in the southern corner of the state of Minnesota. …
Ride Report: 2018 Miesville 56 Gravel Ride (Minnesota) by Nicholas Garbis
April 29, 2018 Twelve days ago there was twelve inches of snow stacking up on the roads and fields here in Miesville, fifty miles southeast of Minneapolis. This morning was…
Race Report: The Day Across Minnesota – by Nicholas Garbis
The news of the "DAMN" -- the "Day Across Minnesota" -- spread pretty quickly through the gravel riding world of the North. For me, it was momentarily intriguing and then…