Six years ago, for a span of four months, I lived in a county that had exactly TWO (2) paved roads. Both were highways -- one north/south, one east/west. I started riding gravel because I was a long-time roadie and I wanted to keep riding a bike every day.
Since then, for the last six years, I've lived in a county that has no gravel roads at all. ZERO miles. The nearest gravel road is an hour away by car . . . two hours to any county with enough gravel to make it fun. So, for six years, I've been riding gravel only for the races in Oklahoma and Kansas -- 800+ miles away. I still put a lot of miles on my gravel bike, but the vast majority of my GRAVEL miles are racked up during out-of-state races. (My warmup before the Open Range 200k Gravel Race were my first gravel miles, of any kind, for the year.) I enjoy the grassroots gravel racing in the mid-continent.
Last edited by FlashBazbo; 07-08-19 at 09:11 AM.