The Good Steward of Cycling around SoCal is a man named Garnett Whitmire III. He is the social media influencer and cycling pioneer behind Crit Whit. Through our interview, his ambitious personal approach to cycling and the big ideas behind it became clear. Garnett Whitmire III’s passion is palpable over the phone. He is sitting in his office on base in SoCal as the day is wrapping up as he tells me, “I love helping people, love dealing with junior troops who are people that work with me, I love inspiring them, encouraging them, listening to them, mentoring them, tutoring them....

Rachel Nolan becomes the first female to win Ireland’s epic TransAtlanticWay endurance cycling race. We caught up with her to see how she fared on her Spinergy Zlites. Rachel Nolan is an avid adventurer who bikes hard and explores endlessly. She runs an adventure tour company called Rachel’s Irish Adventures taking people on rugged escapades to experience, discover and taste the best of Ireland. In September, Rachel completed an epic one stage self-support endurance cycling race called The TransAtlanticWay. This race started in Derry in the north of Ireland and followed the Wild Atlantic Way down to Kinsale in county Cork, a staggering...

Kathy is a former downhill world champion and a mountain biker. She has recently taken up gravel riding and completed her first successful race this past weekend in Cody, Wyoming taking home 1st place in Women’s for “The Ugly”, a 100-mile course in the Fistful of Dirt gravel race. She talked to us about her trepidatious start with gravel to her recent success achieved on a set of Spinergy GXX wheels that we sent her. How did you first get into gravel racing? I completed the Belgian Waffle Ride last year and I just showed up as a person who used to race downhill mountain...

Last post was about nutrition and what it takes for me to get through my training days as well as Belgian Waffle Ride. Now we are going to move on to the fun stuff which is the actual machine that will get me to the finish of every Power Gauntlet race I have planned for this year as well as the training rides leading up to each race. For me, hands down the items that have concerned me the most on the bike are the wheels and tires as these are the main components which have to work flawlessly to...