The Calm Before the Burn | Registration Day at Gravel Burn 2026
Day 0 of the Nedbank Gravel Burn 2026 — registration day in Graaff-Reinet. Tomorrow it starts: 7 stages, 691 km of racing through the Great Karoo. Today is the calm before the burn — the activation ride on the first kilometres of the course, picking up race number 339, carb-loading at the Drostdy, the most incredible bike park we’ve ever seen, and the race briefing the night before Stage 1. “I don’t even think it’s this good overseas.” Canyon brought a full all-terrain team, the owner of Factor is here, Pinarello, GCN… and yet cycling remains the great equaliser.