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About Pedal Brief
A free newsletter and a shelf of reference guides for road and gravel riders who already know how to ride and would rather not read another launch-day press release.
What it is
Pedal Brief goes out twice a week, Tuesday and Friday. It covers the tech that changes something for your bike, the compatibility gotchas that come with it, and the few deals that are actually deals. The site holds the longer reference material: guides on tires, pedals, power meters, trainers and standards, and free calculators for tire pressure, gearing, FTP, chain length, derailleur capacity, calories from power and saddle height, a cycling power and speed calculator (speed from watts, or watts for a target speed), a TSS and Intensity Factor calculator, a what-to-wear lookup that sets brands' own temperature guides side by side, a printable what-to-wear card, a printable tire pressure card, a printable heart-rate zones card, a printable TSS card, a tire clearance lookup for gravel frames, a chain wear threshold lookup, a how much tubeless sealant lookup, a tubeless valve length lookup that sets valve makers' own size guides by rim depth side by side, a tire size converter, a rim and tire width checker that sets the ETRTO table and rim makers' charts side by side, a hookless gravel tire checker (is your tire approved, and its max pressure), a VO2max estimator that sets three published equations from cycling power side by side, a carbs and fluid per hour lookup that sets published fueling guidelines side by side, with a sweat-rate calculator, a cycling size finder that sets apparel brands' own size charts side by side, a smart trainer fit checker (your axle and cassette against popular trainers), a printable trainer setup checklist, and a printable gravel race prep checklist, plus event prep pages such as SBT GRVL 2027 registration, Lauf Gravel Worlds 2027 registration and The Traka 2027 registration, plus Big Sugar Gravel registration and the UNBOUND Gravel 2027 lottery.
How we work
- Specs, compatibility rules and prices come from the brands' and shops' own pages, and every claim links to where it came from.
- Prices carry the date we checked them. Prices move, so the shop's page always wins.
- We have not tested most of the products we write about, and each guide says so in its disclosure note. We don't write "we tested" when we didn't.
- When a source is wrong or a page changes, we fix the guide. Send corrections to [email protected].
- The sourced datasets behind several tools are free to download as CSV and JSON on Open data (CC BY 4.0, credit Pedal Brief with a link).
- The calculators are free to embed on your own site, with a credit link.
- Written with AI assistance, edited by a human.
How it is paid for
Reading is free. The plan is to cover costs with shop affiliate links and, later, clearly labeled sponsorship. Neither decides what we cover. The details, including which programs we have and haven't joined, are on the disclosures page.
Who runs it
Pedal Brief is an independent publication run from Denmark, launched in September 2026. It is small and new, and we would rather say that than dress it up.
Contact
Corrections, questions, partnerships and sponsorship: [email protected]. Sponsors: see Advertise.