Introducing Unpaved Podcast

With the announcement of Episode 01 this morning, the wait is over for a UK-centric adventure cycling and bikepacking podcast. Unpaved is a new podcast that explores how and why the off-road cycling movement is booming, and investigates stories from riders, route makers, and their local trails. Hosts Katherine Moore and Tom Bonnett travel the length and breadth of the UK, seeking out the very best off road riding in the wild and wonderful British Isles. They’re seeking out the folks who help you get the most out of leaving the tarmac behind.

Unpaved Podcast’s introductory series of four episodes explores the fundamental concepts of what it means to ride off road; exploring cycling history, how new communities are being born all over the country and how attitudes are changing more than they have done in decades. Unpaved investigates what happens when riders take this growing discipline of riding to the extremes and how the cycling industry is responding to the surging all-terrain appetite.

Unpaved is not a studio podcast. Host and producer duo Katherine and Tom join their guests as they showcase the very best of their local gravel, come snow, rain or shine. With each episode, the route and highlights are shared on the Unpaved komoot account ​so that listeners can go and enjoy the locals’ best off road trails all over the UK too. Guests from this series include some of the fascinating people behind The Woods Cyclery, Brother Cycles, Pannier.cc, Second City Divide, The Bicycle Academy, Mercredi Bikes, The Racing Collective and current pro road racer, Lachlan Morton.

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  Katherine Moore
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  Tom Bonnett

Katherine Moore is a gravel and bikepacking enthusiast, cycling writer and guide, formerly a presenter at the Global Cycling Network. You might recognizer Katherine’s name from her recent Guide to Bikepacking on Your Period. Tom Bonnett produces a diverse range of radio programmes for BBC Sounds, as well as capturing cyclists at the limit of their endurance to produce the Transcontinental Race and Trans Pyrenees Race podcasts.

Unpaved Podcast is on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts as well as YouTube, Pocket Casts, Deezer and Overcast. Episodes will be released weekly for the first series of four. Episode one is out now and features a gravel ride from The Woods Cyclery in the New Forest, along with Brother Cycles.

Learn more and find the first episode over at UnpavedPodcast.com.

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