UNBOUND Gravel 50

UNBOUND Gravel 50

Eighty kilometres of Kansas gravel, and the race that opens UNBOUND to riders who are not ready to spend fifteen hours in the saddle. The roads are the same ones the professionals ride later in the day: flint, ruts, low-water crossings and short steep climbs, on open country where the wind is a bigger factor than the gradient.

It finishes on the same street in Emporia as everything else, in front of the same crowd. This page belongs to the 2027 edition of the UNBOUND 50. On Livebib, friends and family follow the rider on the real route with a live position and an arrival estimate for the finish — worth having when the whole race can be over before a spectator has worked out where to stand.