Blog – Viathon Bicycles

The Gravel Family Tree

Nov 01, 2020

There is no denying that gravel bikes have taken the cycling world by storm in the last few years. The chances are that if you’ve...

In Indiana, One Father Figure’s Quest to Bring Kids to Cycling

Jun 19, 2020

Jake Fitzmaurice is a difficult man to track down. He rises in the dark each morning and is usually gone from his Huntington, Indiana, home...

Meet the best all-around, race-capable modern mountain town crusher

Jun 08, 2020

When it comes to silver linings, certainly cycling has remained one of the things keeping us all sane and human over the last couple of...

Bike to Work Week was postponed, but Cycling is booming

May 26, 2020

By Aaron Gulley Aaron Miller, a soil scientist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, misses his daily bike commute. Most days, he’d spend around 45 minutes...

This Mother’s Day, Let Her Ride

May 05, 2020

This Mother’s Day we can’t rely on the traditional routes of showering mom with flowers, spa days, or a nice brunch at a local restaurant....

6 Reasons Hardtails Rule

Oct 30, 2019

Judging by advertisements in the bike media and the stream of edits on Vimeo and YouTube, you’d be forgiven for thinking that if you’re in...

Gravel is the New Road

Oct 16, 2019

WHY ROAD CYCLISTS ARE TURNING TO GRAVEL By Aaron Gulley On July 23, 1989, when Greg Lemond powered down the Champs Elysées in Paris to...

The Best Roads You'll Ever Ride

Aug 30, 2019

Chris Bagg and the Caffeine and Watts team experience the best roads you'll ever ride at the Steamboat Gravel race in Colorado.

GCN’s Simon Richardson Samples The New Viathon G.1 Gravel Bike

Jul 12, 2019

While taking in some Idaho sun and experiencing the Sun Valley cycling scene, Simon threw a leg over the Viathon G.1 gravel bike on a...

Sub-12 at Dirty Kanza on 11 Hours per Week

Jun 27, 2019

Back in February, the day after setting up my yearly events on TrainingPeaks, a notification simmered into view on the home page of my training...

Caffeine and Watts at the Dirty Kanza

Jun 12, 2019

With over 3,000 riders rolling away from the starting line in Emporia, Kansas, Dirty Kanza has become one of the most popular gravel races in...

Preparing for a Gravel Race Like The Belgian Waffle Ride

Jun 07, 2019

Gravel races are hard, take longer than road races, demand more muscular strength than flat-out speed, require you to eat and drink more often, and...

So You Want To Go Bikepacking?

Feb 11, 2019

Few activities are as liberating as packing your gear onto a bike and setting off into the woods for a few nights. There’s something elemental...