ILCOSO: The winner of bikepacking.com's “Gear of the Year 2023”.
We are happy to share exciting news with you: our product “ILCOSO” has obtained the coveted title of “Gear of the Year 2023” by bikepacking.com! It's a…
We are happy to share exciting news with you: our product “ILCOSO” has obtained the coveted title of “Gear of the Year 2023” by bikepacking.com! It's a…
We are pleased to introduce our new ambassador, Max Prieur of Fastclub Café, who has chosen Miss Grape as his adventure companion for his long bikepacking routes.…
Alexia, Giulia and Ramona are the REBELS, three friends passionate about outdoor and cycling adventures, who have joined together to explore the wild nature. Self-sufficiency characterizes not only the…
Omar Di Felice faced his most extreme test ever: he had to say ENOUGH just when everyone had their eyes on him, when the media pressure...
Sofiane Sehili after winning the 2021 edition, decided to tackle the Silk Road Mountain race again to defend her title. You took first place at Atlas…
Omar Di Felice is a factual dreamer. He or she dreams of taking incredible bicycle trips, but when he wakes up those trips he turns them into reality. A reality that sometimes…
When a passion is strong enough to become your everything, at that point the best thing to do is to turn it into a job. This is more or less…
Our Mattia De Marchi is enjoying it, and with him also his "partner" Enough Asja Paladin. Last March 19th they loaded their Miss Grape bags - as little as possible - because the goal was to win the GranGuanche Audax, an anomalous 700 km self-sufficiency gravel race in the Canary Islands. How is it possible to cover 700km of gravel on small islands like the Canary Islands? Well, you just need to be able to catch the ferry. During the GranGuanche Audax, the time limit is marked by the departure of the ferry to the next islands, and whoever reaches the last ride to the last island in time proves to be “Audax”. A classic ultra-cycling race, but in Audax spirit. Participants can run in groups and help each other to never arrive late for the next ferry. The breaks are almost timed and the average speeds must be strictly respected. If you do everything perfectly, covering 600km with 14,000m of altitude difference should take 32h 35min by bike, averaging 19.3km/h, plus 5h 25min on inter-island ferry transfers. Anyone who knows a little about the world of gravel ultracycling knows well that this is the type of race that appeals to the Enough guys. And in fact there were 6 Enoughs who prepared the bikes and set off. Rapid Red Carbon wheels with Pirelli Cinturato M 700x40C tyres, with the lightest possible gear choice for the Campagnolo Ekar: 38 at the front and 10-44 at the rear. MissGrape Internode bags and a Cluster 7, waterproof and nice compact. In front are two Buds for the important things, just the essentials for sleeping: no sleeping bag, but bivy and emergency blanket. We could use a hundred different phrases to describe the Enough guys' GranGuanche Audax, but we could never convey their passion as much as their words. “To make a long story short it was all incredibly intense and beautiful for everyone. We cycled day and night in the most diverse and incredible scenery we have ever seen. And yes, we got some results, which never hurts. Mattia and Manuel are first and second in the individual ranking, Fede and Frank second in the pairs ranking and Asja finished second in the women's category”. When we talk about Enough and races we know that the general classification is also among the objectives, and it is no coincidence that the 2022 edition was won by Mattia De Marchi ahead of his partner Manuel Truccolo, and that Asja has finished in second place. You say Enough, you say fun, friendship and relaxation. But between the start and the finish line it's competitive spirit and a knife between your teeth.
One of Hanna Lutz's craziest adventures was her trip from Geneva to Nice on a fixed-gear bike. Not so much for the distance of "suns"...
Hanna Lutz is one of those cyclists who couldn't go a day without pedaling, a cycloaholic. German woman from Ludwigsburg, a small town on the outskirts of Stuttgart, on the banks…