Holy Spirit of Gravel

This is a groundbreaking episode in Gravel Podcast history. TWO different meme accounts talking to each other and getting truly in the weeds about what it's like to be hyper fixated on a niche sport AND have a platform to joke about it. You already know TRmemes. Good from their quality use of reels, carbs per hour humor and dialed use of fonts. Now you can meet the human behind the account. If...

In this episode of the privateer deep dive series we bring in not one but two young gravel heads to find out what's going down in the world of gravel U23. Are the kids indeed alright? We talk to Mach1Devo team member Oskar Stack-Michasiw and substackian bike journalist Kyle Dawes about Unbound in particular but also what the general vibes of being a U23 athlete is all about and what the media...

who is the Wemby of gravel? who is the Cape Verde goalkeeper of gravel? do you not know what I am talking about because seemingly many cyclists do not know about other sports? BWR Utah and a UCI gravel race in France happened and we might be one of the only gravel pods that mention it? Maybe not! But we drop some names regardless. We talk some post-Unbound content and run a vibe check on the overa...

Fan favorite Maddy Nutt explains ultra racing to me (someone who thinks 100 is a long ass ride) and I don't really get it but you can imagine me nodding along like you do when a crazy person is telling tall tales. Except the tales here are all real!! Maddy got second at Unbound XL just a month after winning Traka XL. She tells me how to rode through thunder and lightning, walked for 5 (FIVE) hours...

I went to Unbound Gravel, the SUPER BOWL race formerly known as DeeKay 200 and I was there to WORK. It's not at the end of the season but it's still the most important race of the season. Even though I was kept busy the entire time, I still managed to have lots of fun. I work better after a few cold ones anyway. But more important than myself, the race was really activated. Wheel swaps, sp...

My Traka experience brought to you Girona sponsored by G-Town. As always, vibes based analysis and deconstruction of a race, a sport and its place in hearts and minds.

The meme admin x privateer collab the world has been waiting for..... HSOG x SOFIA SCHUGAR. Yes, THE Sofia, as we call her. The world of gravel has longing for this meet up and Traka 2026 in Girona it finally happened. If I am the meme admin who dreams of being a pro athlete, Sofia is like my counterpart, the pro athlete who dreams of memery. And in this pod episode it shows. It's the nearly t...

The season is official underway! (even though marquee races and other leagues have been going on for weeks now) But still, it was Sea Otter weekend! A trade show-cum-influencer showcase, in case you hadn't heard of it. It was also the start of the Life Time Grand Prix. A series with consequences. Really good stuff for a meme sport! My cohost watched 15 minutes of the Sea Otter Gravel Classic l...

or in other words, How My Podium at Rattlesnake Gravel Saved the Sport of Gravel Racing topics include: - the spirit of gravel - gravel racing - gravel bikes - gravel cycling - my life - my rich aunt - my podium - rattlesnake gravel - VCletsgetit being a good influence on young men - Bridgerton - being non-verbal - new life time website - life time grand prix pregnancy policy

Winner of the Men's Midsouth Elite/Pro/Friday racer/Privateer/normie XL race, we had Durango native Cobe Freeburn of Trek Driftless on the pod to chit chat about how he rode 28c tires to the win (maybe a bit wider) and how that finish went down, what exactly is the Cliff Family Foundation, why Fort Lewis college is cool and what his plans are for the rest of the year. My audio is a bit glitche...

Those vibe check snipers on the rooftop will make sure of it.

I was at Valley of Tears gravel race in Turkey, TX and I got high-key activated! I don't really know what I was doing there to be honest...vibe checks, instagram story coverage, gravel dad mogging, dirt crit alt-stream analysis, camping with my friend, drinking lonestar beer...a bit of everything. All the instagram stories and some reels are up on my instagram page but listen to this episode t...

This podcast is what happens when two friends are having a post-race weekend Facetime catch up and decide, in the middle of the call, decide to turn it into a content fodder for the gravel machine. A post-modern gravel race recap for the ages. We get sincerity-coded for a bit and talk about love, life, winning, losing and the crashes that happen in between. We also dig into her most recent race, H...

I only intended to ask Chase about BWR Arizona and let him ramble about getting dropped in the single track but then we start talking a lot about bikes (remember I have his 2024 Lauf), and wintering in Arizona and legos and mario kart and fast food oh and Drew Dillman crashes the pod does his "Dizzle" thing. If you listen to his and you aren't a gravel dad or like me a gravel dad int...

In this week's episode we talked to Euro-coded American gravel privateer Andy Lydic. He's raced all over the USA and Europe and is pursing his dreams in a way different to most young bucks who are born and raised in the USA. He's raced with the big boys at UCI Gravel World Championships but also the gravel dads at your goated mass start Colorado races and lived to tell the tale. We tal...

Has the gravel season started? Or does Santa Vall not count if everyone was felt kinda meh fitness-wise? More ruinations on euro-gravel vibes. What is a team and what do tactics mean in 2026 Gravel culture? Who is the Lindsey Vonn of Gravel? Who is the Ilia Malinin of Gravel? Why did I finish one step off the podium at my gravel race? Why do people act insane around me when I ride my new (to me) L...

We are still in pre-gravel season, lots of incoherent rambling about nothing. No mention of gravel cycling, any privateer or any brand in Epstein's emails.

We're back for season two of this thing. Unlike a viral Netflix series the VFX budget has not doubled and the cast did not negotiate for better contacts. But much like Alexey Vermeulen's 10 year ENVE contract we have signed on to do this til we reach true AI singularity. This week’s topics include: - decade long contracts/indentured servitude - new Specialized team - how to care about this sport i...

It's been a minute since the last episode, you could say we had an OFF SEASON to enjoy this American holiday but really we just had nothing to talk about til HSOG put silly tires on her gravel bike and the With Pace team uploaded their Big Sugar episode. Yes, you read correctly, our very own Holy Spirit of Gravel meme page admin was featured on what Forbes, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the...

Welcome back to  Holy Spirit of Gravel: The Podcast, the only gravel podcast willing to say out loud what everyone else is whispering into their Wahoo head units:  Did Lifetime just deal Gravel Earth a quiet, corporate deathblow… or are we finally watching two gravel series split into their true identities? LTGP came out with a star studded female line up and a unknown-ish euro coded male line up...

The end-of-season list highlights notable achievements within the sport, including, but not limited to , exceptional performances and landmark moments. This is a not an exhaustive list , and the omission of certain events or individuals does not imply a lack of significance, but rather reflects the necessarily selective nature of such a compilation and the mental duress of what it takes to produce...

Hannah Shell and Holy Spirit of Gravel meet up in the digital space after meeting in the real one to discuss all things Gravel Racing, International Travel, Sponsors, Why Gravel Mexico is so cool, What Happened at Unbound, The "Real" Gravel Worlds, Elevating The Women's Field, Road Being Stressful, Does The Feed Have Beef With HSOG?, Schedule Planning and much more. Hannah Shell has...

Just when you thought the season was over and we could all go back to our normal lives not having to care about the most niche sport thats ever existed...GRAVEL BURN in South Africa debuts. It's extremely dialed and activated, probably because its put on by the same people who do Cape Epic (an MTB race I'm forced to care about because it is gravel-adjacent). Call it the Matt Beers effect!!...

Big Sugar Gravel in Bentonville. Last stop in the Life Time Grand Prix. Your dad's favorite meme account (where he only gets like half the jokes), Holy Spirit of Gravel, was there! And once again she didn't actually ride. Instead of commentating on the race, this time she was embedded with a privateer - and a legacy privateer at that - LDC aka Lauren De Crescenzo and her partner-in-crime/m...

Two big Gravel races happened and neither were even Gravel races. (Does anyone still capitalize the world "Gravel" or is that just us?) Anywho, join the Holy Spirit of Gravel meme page admin ("Holy" for short) and her Gravel Dad best friend has they discuss Little Sugar MTB race and the UCI Gravel World Championships. Like I said neither was what we come to expect from your typ...