May 25, 2025
Bound for Unbound
It's that time of the year when everyone who signed up for, what is concievably the biggest gravel race in the World, Unbound starts to panic about their preparation. They start to look at weather forecasts and imagine if they will be sweltering in the heat or slogging in the...
May 02, 2025
Video Showcases Marin and Big Brennan Wertz
The latest video from Scott USA features Above Category's Professional Gravel Racer Brennan Wertz and the video put on display all of the things we love about Marin. From the amazing stretches of gravel roads surrounding Sausalito, to the stunning vistas from Mount Tamalpais the video perfectly encapsulates what makes...
May 02, 2025
BOTW: Pinarello Fat Tire Goodness
Pinarello bikes are fast. Pinarello bikes are sexy. Pinarello bikes are created to look great. Pinarello bikes are designed to win races. It’s not often a company can please both the design snobs and the racer snobs, let alone do it across multiple disciplines. But Pinarello has done just that...
April 26, 2025
Skyler and Sarto: A Match Made in Marin
UPDATE: SKYLER WINS! SKYLER WINS! Marin's very own Skyler Taylor takes the top step of the podium at the 2025 UCI Highland Gravel Classic in Fayeteville, Arkansas. The very same race Brennan Wertz won last year. From the results it appears he won it in a two-up sprint, but we will...
April 16, 2025
The Otter behind us and Levi's Out Front
When the winner of the first big race of the season crosses the finish line and immediately tosses his cookies you know it was a ripper. Following the race on Instagram we got some sense of the speed and, for some, the danger, but we thought we would reach...
April 09, 2025
Behind the Scenes of Wertz's New Bike Day
The long and windy gravel road to a successful new bike day video launch is much more complicated than one might imagine. The mulitiude of logistics is mind boggling. It starts by finding the perfection combination of bicycle and bicycle rider. In this case we are talking about the National...
April 03, 2025
Sea Otter: Gravel Season Prepares to Kick Off
Above Category’s gravel professionals, Skyler Taylor and Brennan Wertz, roadtripped last week to Monterey to recon the 2025 Sea Otter Gravel Race so you don’t have to. “I love how versatile the course is,” said Taylor. “From paved climbs, to cross wind sections, singletrack, loose fireroad descents and steep climbs,...
April 03, 2025
BOTW: Glittering Green Mosaic with a Touch of Gold
Sometimes we find ourselves just sitting and staring at a set of Mosaic titanium welds. We can't help starting, mesmerized by the rows and rows of of titanium beads, their meticulous consistency, awed by the craftsmanship it takes to create something so beautiful and yet so functional. This must be...
March 20, 2025
BOTW: Starry-Eyed Over a No. 22 Great Divide
Just like people, some bicycles love to be photographed and some bikes play hard to get. This Bright Nickel and Rose Gold No. 22 Great Divide loved the camera and the camera loved it. No matter the angle, no matter the light, this bike was a supermodel’s supermodel. From the...
Julius Berith
March 20, 2025
At MidSouth When The Fires Rolled In
At MidSouth we were starkly reminded that there’s so much more to life than nutrition and choosing the best tire… It was late afternoon the day before the big race. Everyone had their game faces on and we were ready to go. The entire course had been pre-ridden. Dinner had been consumed. Race day...
March 06, 2025
BOTW: Responsorium Romance, Wedding Anniversary Pegorettis
His and Hers Pegorettis Most romantics know the first anniversary is a gift of paper and the fifth is wood. While the 7th and 8th are copper and bronze. What you probably didn’t know, and what Heather and David manifested, is that the 12th Anniversary is a gift of an...
Julius Berith
