Kerry MacPhee - Variety is the spice of life

Gravel Union Talks

Gravel Union Talks is a podcast series full of inspiring stories, news and events from the world of gravel biking. Each month hosts Carlo and Olly will be chatting with guests who are passionate about riding off the beaten track… adventure riding, bike packing and gravel racing.
In this episode of the Gravel Union Talks podcast, we’re going to be chatting with Kerry MacPhee. We always try and give a quick overview of each guest, but Kerry is almost impossible to pigeonhole. She has competed for her home country of Scotland as an elite MTB racer, has won what is arguably the world’s hardest cyclocross race, the 3 Peaks Challenge, she is a gravel event organiser, she has set numerous FKTs on bikepacking routes all over Scotland and she is a voluntary director of three non-profit organisations, all geared up to help get more people outdoors and onto bikes. Away from riding and racing, Kerry is a fluent Gaelic speaker and spends half her week working in the renewable energy sector as a community liaison officer.

In this episode:

• Kerry MacPhee
• Gravel Union Talks podcast with hosts Carlo van Nistelrooy and Olly Townsend.
• GU’s editor-in-chief Olly on last month’s most popular articles on the Gravel Union platform.

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Links for the notes

• Gravel Inspiration – Connecting with the gravel community through guiding
  • Working as a guide on a gravel camp involves so much more than just physically managing your group and getting them safely from A to B. Your role is also to inspire, motivate, teach and encourage. It’s not a job that suits everyone, but Claudia Gerosa has been bitten by the guiding bug and has now worked as a guide at three United We Are Gravel camps.
• Travel Gravel - Brittany contrasts - French coastal gravel for the whole family
  • Underbiking? Family-friendly gravel trails? Hunting for shells on the beach? A family trip to Brittany proved to be a destination which ticked everyone’s boxes as Erwin Sikkens reports. If you ever wondered what the riding is like in this region of north-west France then read on to find out!
• The Metamorphosis - From MTB to monster gravel bike
  • Ten years ago, when gravel riding was first taking off in Europe, riders tended to stick to smoother, wider off-road trails. Now though, with the introduction of better technology, an influx of riders coming from a mountain biking background and the never-ending search for the “new best thing” a growing number of gravel riders are looking for more adventure in their away-from-the-road rides. Timo Rokitta decided this was a good excuse for some bike building experimentation and the result is a fantastic looking monster gravel bike. Will it ride as well as it looks?