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    Dirt and distance

    Aug 31, 2021 6 minutes
    By Phil Brown

    I already owned a road bike and a mountain bike. Did I really need a gravel bike? Was the latest cycling trend just a lot of industry hype? After initial hesitation, I decided to get one, and since then I’ve ridden it a few hundred miles on dirt roads, logging roads, easy single-track trails and, when necessary, pavement.

    I was having so much fun that I sensed my girlfriend Carol was envious. For her birthday, I surprised her with her own gravel bike. That weekend we took the bikes out for a ride I had scoped out a few weeks earlier.

    We started near Cranberry Lake and rode more than 18 miles to Horseshoe Lake, following logging roads, an old railroad bed and a dead-end dirt road. We were on pavement for only a mile. Though it was a sunny Saturday in June—and the Ampersand Mountain Trailhead parking had been full when

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