{"id":7215,"date":"2018-08-15T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:15:43","slug":"at-the-coulee-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/at-the-coulee-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Coulee Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7218 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee2.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over a misty field\" width=\"354\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee2.jpg 598w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 85vw, 354px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad and Matt are at it again, this time taking on the 1200km Coulee Challenge in Minnesota and Wisconsin. We remixed their TransAt bikes for this new event. This ride differs from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/transat-project-update-we-win\/\">TransAtlantic Way<\/a> they took on last month in the quality of the road surfaces (thus the switch to 700c wheels) and the type of climbing they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>From the ride description:<\/p>\n<p><em>Our RM 1200k route includes great roads and bike trails in Minnesota and Wisconsin with a focus on the challenging coulees of Southeast Minnesota and Southwest Wisconsin. The terrain will have some hilly sections, with multiple, occasionally steep, hills crossing ridge lines followed by pastoral valleys and quiet, bucolic roads. Along the way riders will enjoy passing through a number of small towns in the coulees and river towns on the Mississippi River.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A coulee is a deep ravine, one of the defining features of the terrain in Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is no flat, mid-Western romp,so we reconfigured Brad and Matt\u2019s bikes for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Coulee Remix bike is a progressive gravel bike that features a number of innovations, special offers, and incentives. It\u2019s also available for a very limited time. The Remix employs the SRAM Force 1 group set with mechanical shifting and hydraulic brakes, aiming for the lightest weight, simplest design, and purest performance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7217\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee1-1.jpg\" alt=\"two riders ride away on a county road on a sunny day\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee1-1.jpg 596w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee1-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coulee1-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 85vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad and Matt are at it again, this time taking on the 1200km Coulee Challenge in Minnesota and Wisconsin. We remixed their TransAt bikes for this new event. This ride differs from the TransAtlantic Way they took on last month in the quality of the road surfaces (thus the switch to 700c wheels) and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/at-the-coulee-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the Coulee Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[969,967,968,364,18,41,12,691,145,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-7215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-1200km","8":"tag-bradnmatttrouvailles","9":"tag-coulee-challenge","10":"tag-evergreening","11":"tag-featured-product","12":"tag-friends-of-seven","13":"tag-mm-racing-matt-mo","14":"tag-randonneuring","16":"tag-seven-racers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17967,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/17967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}