$251-THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR. HIS FIRST DAY IS MAY 6TH. ## THOUSANDS OF CYCLING FANATICS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE HERE ON THE CENTRAL COAST FOR THE PREMIER CYCLING FESTIVAL.. THE SEA OTTER CLASSIC..

Many of Durango’s top off-road bike racers headed to Monterey, California this weekend for the Sea Otter Classic. On Friday, some of the top off-road racers competed in the men’s elite and women’s ...

LAGUNA SECA — Before its commonly accepted history dating to the early 1970s, mountain biking must have had earlier iterations of happenstance. Friends likely rode their bikes through the woods or on ...

The top 10 of the 2024 Sea Otter Classic men’s and women’s elite fields were filled with Durango’s top off-road racers. This year was different. Not a single Durango-based rider finished in the top 10 ...

LAGUNA SECA — Keegan Swenson had an adventurous sporting youth. He played soccer, rode lightweight motorcycles in the dirt and raced on snow skis. But pedaling fat-tired bicycles on high-altitude ...

Monterey, California — The 90-mile Sea Otter Gravel race served as the series opener for the Life Time Grand Prix on Thursday. The event did not disappoint as USA’s Keegan Swenson and Haley Batten ...

Hordes of cycling fans shuffled through the serpentine aisles of the Sea Otter Classic this weekend for the 34th edition of the four-day festival of cycling. With 70,000 attendees and a record-setting ...

The 2025 Life Time Grand Prix kicked off with Thursday's 2025 Sea Otter Classic Gravel Race. The 90-mile gravel race replaced the Fuego XL mountain bike race that the Grand Prix used last year. In the ...

Welcome to Velo’s Sea Otter Classic coverage, where we share our favorite things we’ve seen at the 2025 show. Bikes, components, everything racing, and more: if we think it’s cool, you’ll see it. See ...

Back at Interbike 2018 in Reno, we stumbled across the Poseidon X, an aluminum cyclocross/gravel bike with a Shimano 2x drivetrain for just $599. The bike offers up a hydroformed 6061 aluminum frame, ...