#Repost @quocgravel ・・・ New on The Pedaler: Jan Heine Interview: Allroad Origins, Randonneurs & Wider Tyres . If you want to trace the origins of the current ‘Allroad’ movement, the bike industry’s (occasionally) successful attempts to blend the best of road and trail bikes into one do-it-all ride, you need look no further than Jan Heine @compasscycle. . Having first coined the phrase back in 2007 to describe the bikes he and his Bicycle Quarterly Team were building for themselves, this softly spoken German has become the bike community’s de-facto doyen of gravel cycling, exposing false traditions and reasserting lost truths in an effort to bring the bicycle back to the complete, self-sustaining machine the mid-century French long-distance cyclists first envisioned. . “I become fascinated by these French randonneurs,” says Jan, chatting with The Pedaler over coffee and hot chocolate one misty morning in Seattle. “They had beautiful bikes and did these incredible rides, like the Raid Pyreneen, where they rode from the Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean, over the Pyrenees; across 18 mountain passes, non-stop.” To read the full story, click link in our profile. .
