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Community Spotlight: Benky goes big!

Our community spotlight this week is Kevin Benkenstein:

He totally crushed over 500km of cycling and 10 000 m of elevation gain in one shot – talk about epic, right? ⁠

Here’s what he had to say about the adventure:⁠


¨The 500km loop from home is deeply personal to me. It was my first real solo-and-very-long ride back in 2017 and as I have learned and explored the area more I have added to, taken from and fallen more in love with the roads and trails that it covers. These are roads that I’ve raced, trained, toured and honeymooned on. Every metre of the route is full of stories and memories for me, good and bad, and linking them all into one big day out just feels special, and is a celebration of riding for me. For a few years it was my mid-winter suffer fest too, but it’s definitely a celebration now and I prefer it that way…even if it still hurts a bit :)⁠ ¨⁠

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