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Rather than race for a professional team, he built his own portfolio of individual sponsors, without the benefit of a past WorldTour career. Along his journey, Strickland redefined what it means to be a professional American cyclist racing in his prime.

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Then, Strickland transformed himself into the don of American gravel racing at the exact moment that off-road cycling cracked the mainstream. Over the past five years Strickland has stayed one step ahead of cyclingвЂ™s latest fads and fashions, blossoming from a roadie into the king of fixed-gear criteriums as that racing format hit its zenith. вЂњHeвЂ™s curious about everything, and the way heвЂ™s followed these projects has directly contributed to where he is today.вЂќ Photo: Brad Kaminski |

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вЂњWhen Colin is out riding, he isnвЂ™t thinking at all about riding-heвЂ™s thinking about other projects and stuff he wants to work on,вЂќ says pro and longtime friend Payson McElveen. HeвЂ™s also a natural entrepreneur, and he has his hand in an ever-expanding number of business partnerships and schemes. In truth, this strange aspiration is just another way in which Colin Strickland is unlike any professional cyclist in the country.ДЄs we have learned on our trip to Austin, Strickland is an endless tinkerer. Running a Texas honky-tonk may seem like a bizarre dream for one of the countryвЂ™s top pro cyclists. You can charge like $3,500 bucks a pop for a space like that-thereвЂ™s nothing else like it out here for miles.вЂќДЄs it turns out, Colin Strickland, the countryвЂ™s fastest man on a gravel bicycle, is also a real-estate speculator, a talented carpenter, and an aspiring wedding venue operator, among other things. вЂњThe goal is to make it an event space for weddings and stuff like that. вЂњWeвЂ™re going to build it out to look like a legit Texas saloon from the 1880вЂ™s,вЂќ Strickland says, his eyes widening. This building, he tells us, is his future. Photo: Brad Kaminski | ДЄs we roll into the postcard-sized town of Lockhart, Strickland points us to a nondescript building on a city block that looks like the set of a Clint Eastwood western. Colin Strickland speeds along the dirt roads outside Lockhart, Texas. These days, the areaвЂ™s lattice of dirt roads are StricklandвЂ™s preferred training grounds as he prepares for gravel cyclingвЂ™s biggest events. When Strickland worked full-time as an environmental scientist several years ago, he performed a biological analysis of the local hillsides before they were plowed up for a five-lane freeway. Strickland has brought us to this rural corner of Texas to show us why it sits at the center of his past, present, and future. The speedometer edges upward: 20, 23, 25 miles per hour. Strickland crouches low in the same aerodynamic attack position that became the lasting image of his Dirty Kanza victory. This story appeared in the March/April 2020 print issue of VeloNews.ДЄ Texas-sized dust cloud fills our nostrils as we edge our rental car closer to Colin Strickland, who pedals a stiff gear along this gravel road south of Austin. Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro dвЂ™Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a EspaГ±a, and everything in between when you

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