Erwin Vervecken: UCI Gravel World Series, racing in 2025 and beyond...

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 guest: Erwin Vervecken

• Erwin Vervecken, UCI Gravel World Series
• Gravel Union Talks podcast with 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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On this episode's guest:
Erwin Vervecken, Mr Gravel at the UCI, the world governing body for cycling. As a former multi-time world champion in cyclocross, Erwin is pretty adept at riding off-road on a dropbar bike. It would be fair to say that gravel racing since the arrival of the UCI into the gravel racing scene, has seen stratospheric growth. Today we’re going to be chatting to Erwin about the UCI’s plans for gravel racing in 2025 and beyond...
What's cooking on Gravel Union website:

• Armchair Adventure - Across the Andes
  • Ultra-distance gravel event riders seem to be a different breed to mere mortals, riding incredible distances in short periods of time and surviving on tiny levels of sleep, unimaginable to ‘normal’ riders. But is there a point where the safety of riders is being overlooked in the pursuit of ever greater challenges? When he took part in this year’s Across Andes, Mark Livesey was pushed to his absolute limit and wonders whether the spirit of gravel is being lost somewhere out there in the wilderness?
• Gravel Adventure - Canyon’s gravel review of 2024
  • It’s that time of year where we all probably start thinking about what the future might bring, but also reviewing how this year went. What went well? What do we need to work on? What shall we just gloss over and pretend never happened? It’s not just Joe Public who do this of course, the cycling industry having been doing it too. Canyon sent over their version of a “year in gravel” featuring two of their sponsored riders, former Unbound winner Carolin Schiff and ‘the original gravel privateer” Pete Stetina. We’ve cherry picked some of the highlights from their year to share with you.
• Armchair Adventure - Getting cross in Antwerp
  
  
  • “Do you fancy going to see one of the rounds of the cyclocross world cup later in the year? We could take our gravel bikes and make a long weekend of it?” As a veteran of numerous CX world cup and world championship viewing weekends over the past twenty years, Olly thought he knew how to make a mixed CX/gravel weekend fun. Despite the fact that only one of his regular gravel riding buddies actually ride or race CX, everyone else were keen televised CX racing fans and jumped at the chance to see it in real life. Plans were made, tickets booked and the #fridaygravelgang were soon on their way to Antwerp. Read on to find out how they got on.

Розділи

1. Erwin Vervecken: UCI Gravel World Series, racing in 2025 and beyond... (00:00:00)

2. Olly on what's cooking on the website GravelUnion.cc (00:01:46)

3. Interview Erwin Vervecken (00:07:05)

4. Outtro and credits (01:09:13)