October 09, 2019
Hail, Rain, Sun, and Snow at the California Grinduro
Weather Underground,Dark Sky, AccuWeather. Quincy, California. Refresh, refresh, refresh. Weather Underground,Dark Sky, AccuWeather. Quincy, California. Refresh, refresh, refresh. If you like to ride bikes in the dirt and you like to party in the mountains, you probably followed this cadence repeatedly over the final week of September, leading up to...
September 26, 2019
Bike of the Week: Blue White and Green UP
No matter the season, no matter the location, the gravel fever seems to know no end. This week, we're excited to feature a breathtaking Open U.P. The mission? To build a super fast all-terrain rig ready to take on the the mountainous backroads of the Colorado Front Range. We mixed...
September 25, 2019
Getting my Feet Wet in Gravel by Jumping Head First into a 140 Mile Grinder
As a recovering triathlete married to a road cyclist, most of the chatter I’ve heard around gravel racing is skeptical. You often hear things like “gravel is for Instagram” or when you get dropped in a gravel race, you can just say you were there to “have fun”...among other things....
September 22, 2019
Riding the Cadex 42s: The Way Too Early New Wheel Review
It seems that almost every morning, upon checking my email inbox for the first time of the day, I'm hit with a barrage of new cycling products that have just launched. Rims, saddle bags, revolutionary flat fixing devices, apparel pieces that will take me to before unheard of levels of...
September 19, 2019
Bike of the Week: A Single Speed Sarto
Today, we share an especially unique build. A road bike, stripped of its gears and derailleurs for single speed journeys, with the ability to flip to fixed for days on the track. A custom carbon frame built our Italian friends at Sarto, ready to be ridden in the rolling hills of Northern...
September 18, 2019
A Vertical Quarter Mile of Pain: Red Bull Bay Climb
The beauty of bike racing is the plethora of unorthodox avenues anyone can pursue these days. While "gravel" might take the spotlight as the hyped up alternative to both traditional road racing and even cyclocross, even that looks mainstream compared to the activities thriving in our sport's subcultures. Even looking...
September 12, 2019
Chad's Prova Speciale
No matter how good something looks or how well we get along with a builder, before we take on a new custom bike brand, it's essential we have a bike of our own built. We need to understand their process from start to finish, and need to experience first hand how...
September 09, 2019
So What is Prova Cycles, Anyway?
Sometimes, you see a bike and you just know it’s something special. That’s what we thought when we saw our first Prova, the disc-brake modern road Speciale model. “I’m not even a disc guy but that’s a hot looking bike,” our founder, Chad, recalls thinking. The bikes kept popping up...
September 05, 2019
Prova Cycles: Now Available at Above Category
Here at Above Category, we're a selective bunch. From the bikes we ride, to the apparel we wear, to the roads and trails we traverse we're on a continued journey seeking the best and most unique the cycling world has to offer, testing it all exhaustingly before we deem it...
August 29, 2019
Bike of the Week: Our Enve Summit Sarto Seta Plus
If you've been keeping tabs on our social posts or made a visit to our studio in the last month or so, this week's featured bike might not come as a surprise. If you haven't, then we're excited to show you something new. We've quietly been building our relationship with Sarto over...
August 29, 2019
All of the Builders, All of the Bikes, All Under One Roof: The Enve Builders Summit
This is the third and final installment from our visit to Enve earlier this month. ICYM check the previous entries here: Premium Performance Built in the USA and here: Diving Blind into Utah's Prime Gravel. You might be wondering what exactly we were doing out in Utah in the first...
