The Pedaler

An occasional series of visual stories from the road and trail. In this edition, a no-Strava Sunday ride from San Francisco’s East Bay to Treasure Island, urban exploring with race rims and lace-ups.

After selling out earlier in the season in most sizes, this week we finally restocked the Gran Tourer gravel bike shoe in all styles, along with updated editions of our Black Camo and Green Camo silhouettes.

For our very first Gran Tourer collab, there was no one better suited than Rodeo Adventure Labs. We love their bikes, their rider-centric mentality and their unbridled enthusiasm. Rodeo's founder, Stephen Fitzgerald has ridden our regular GT into the ground. Except it’s not in the ground - it’s still going strong.

Salzburg cyclist Stuart Marven gives the Night Mono road cycling shoes a shakedown over the Austrian Alps. With camera in hand and strudel in our jersey pockets, we went along for the ride.

With the recent launch of Weekend, our new performance cycling sneaker, we spoke with company founder and designer, Quoc Pham about the concept behind the shoe, his design process, and the problems that come when you build from scratch (and why it’s always worthwhile).

Eco-tech innovator Bloom, a Mississippi-based brand that supplies the footwear industry with plant-based performance-driven foam, is on a mission to replace the EVA in your sneakers.

The festive season is here, and with it comes the Quoc Road Cycling Gift Guide: a handpicked selection of Hors Categorie products that any fan of the blacktop would be pleased to have plonked under their front wheel come the special day. Enjoy.