This was the second year Podia exhibited at the Berliner Fahrradschau, the perfect chance to meet new and old friends, ride bikes and see what’s the latest in the industry.

Campagnolo Potenza 11, represents the Italian company taking direct aim at one of the most popular groupsets around; Shimano’s Ultegra. We equipped one of the Roadventure ride guide bikes with Potenza in the 2017 season and here are our thoughts on it.

In 2013 Nathan Haas of Team Dimension Data (then with Garmin-Sharp) rode the Tour de Pologne for the first time. It was not just any race for Nathan, it was a chance to visit the country of his grandparents and learn more about his heritage.

The Red Hook Crits are a series of races that take place every year in New York, Barcelona, Milan and London. But these aren’t normal road bike criteriums, these are raced on fixed gear track bikes where the only braking is to stop pedalling.

Keira McVitty is a first year Pro-Cyclist with the British Women’s UCI Professional team WNT. She featured in our recent Spring Summer’17 lookbook we photographed in Catalunya where she is currently based. We took her aside when the cameras weren’t shooting to ask about her life as a pro.

In 2014 we visited the Bespoked Show in London and it became the first article on this blog. This year we went to see the show in it’s usual home of Bristol, England.

Would you like to read a first hand account of what a Podia Roadventure is like? You can do that in issue 6 of the highly enjoyable Far Ride magazine.

While attending La Résistance in 2016 we met Geoff Waugh, a photographer who was covering the event for British publication, Cyclist Magazine. We had the opportunity to stop and speak with him several times (a top finishing time wasn’t a priority for Podia) and hear some of tales of photographing races.

The Transcontinental Race (TCR) is an annual, ultra-distance race across Europe covering between 3,000 – 4,000km over 7-10 days. It began in 2013 and has been growing in popularity every year since.

Gravel grinding events have been around for a long time in the US but with the growth of the gravel genre in Europe, expect to see more and more over here. When the opportunity presented itself for Podia to go and ride one such event in the French Alps, we…