LITTLE RIDE ON THE PRAIRIE

In the dusty heartland of the United States, Cyclist Off-Road takes on the legendary Dirty Kanza, a 200-mile race across the flint-covered dirt roads of Kansas

JAMES STOUT

I’m blissfully unaware that I will soon find myself lying down in a creek, trying to keep myself from vomiting ‘Alexa, what is the weather in Emporia, Kansas?’ I have developed such a frustrating habit of shouting this nervously from my office in the last few months that my wife is becoming increasingly irritated with me. She has made the valid argument that, if I can’t be bothered to search the weather for myself, why on Earth would I think I have enough motivation to ride 200 miles on gravel. It’s a fair point, but Dirty Kanza does that to you. It gets in your head. It’s a bike ride so long that you need a spare battery for your bike computer, because when they make bike computers they don’t…

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Cyclist Off Road (Digital) - 1 Issue, Autumn 2019

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