Riding the Kona Libre multisurface bike on Madeira

Some challenging terrain to show off Kona’s new carbon machine

Kona announced the new Libre back in August, with Kona-sponsored world solo 24 hour MTB champion Cory Wallace riding the bike at the 200 mile Dirty Kanza gravel bike race in early June.

Wallace finished Dirty Kanza in 14th place, despite a succession of flats, which meant that he needed to come back from hundreds of places down the field. There’s a link to the story of his ride here.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.