Cyclocross Bike For Dirty Kanza

The year before alison tetrick won the women s race on the slate cannondale s 650b aluminum gravel bike.

Cyclocross bike for dirty kanza. We ve picked six different gravel bikes that can help you conquer kanza. Mat stephens 2019 dk200 factor vista gravel bike. Is this a mountain bike race. Colin strickland s 2019 dirty kanza 200 allied able.

Dirty kanza 200 is a solo self supported non stop 200 mile long bicycling endurance challenge on the gravel and dirt roads of the flint hills region in east central kansas. The once and current king of kanza ted king won his first dirty kanza 200 in 2016 aboard cannondale s 650b and front suspension equipped slate. Cannondale has a good record at dirty kanza. This year king opted to run cannondale s superx cyclocross bike.

He ran an ultegra r8000 crankset with a stages crank arm power meter and a 46t wolf tooth chain ring. This open letter is in direct response to recent activities on social media and elsewhere which are designed to bring discredit to the dirty kanza event and force a change to the event name. Good bike choices include. An open letter from life time and the kaw nation to the gravel cycling community.

Ted king rode to his second dirty kanza victory aboard cannondale s superx cyclocross bike ted king. That s the theme for dirty kanza 200 inarguably one of the hardest single day gravel races going with around 2 500 racers lining up for the full double century and another 1 000 having a go at the abbreviated 25 50 and 100 mile courses. Schuster cyclocross magazine we saw strickland on a double last year but like both rockwell at dk and ortenblad at lost and found he opted for a 1x setup for dirty kanza. In the coming days rba editors troy templin jon hornbeck and rba contributor janel holcolmb will be heading to emporia kansas to tackle the longest bike race any of them have ever attempted.

Schuster cyclocross magazine he also had a fresh coated ufo chain he was saving just for the dirty kanza. For the fourth year running road bike action is readying a team to compete in what is arguably the toughest biggest gravel race on the calendar the dirty kanza 200. Cole house oneida tribe of wisconsin a former pro racer with bmc and 2017 fat bike national champion who raced dirty kanza in 2019 said that he felt lots of native athletes would prosper at. Stephens saved a ceramicspeed ufo coated chain just for dk.

Cannondale superx slate. Tetrick opted for the same platform as the one we tested in california adding a few personal touches including a srm powermeter and schwalbe g one tires. Tetrick starts with a clean slate last year ted king won the dirty kanza on the cannondale slate a unique bike with a lefty suspension fork with 30mm of travel and 650b 27 5 wheels.