{"id":3379,"date":"2026-08-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/piotr-havik-wint-badlands-colnago-g4-x\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","slug":"piotr-havik-wins-badlands-colnago-g4-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/piotr-havik-wint-badlands-colnago-g4-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Piotr Havik wins Badlands in his ultra debut: 800 km in 36 hours on a Colnago G4-X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A debut to remember: gravel racer <strong>Piotr Havik<\/strong> had never raced in an ultra-distance race before, but won it immediately <strong>Badlands 2026<\/strong>. He laid the space <strong>800 kilometers<\/strong> with more than <strong>13,000 vertical meters<\/strong> from Granada and back to <strong>36 hours and 15 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg.jpg\" alt=\"Piotr Havik on the way in the arid landscape of the Badlands\" class=\"wp-image-3378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/piotr-havik-badlands-onderweg-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On the way on the second day. Photo: Nils Laengner \/ Colnago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">His Colnago G4-X<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Colnago G4-X in size 54<\/li>\n\n\n<li>SRAM Red XPLR with an aero front fork and 1\u00d713 cassette (10-52) from Garbaruk<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Oquo RP50LTD wheels of 50 mm with Continental Dubnital tires of 50 mm<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Colnago CC.01 Wide handlebar with adapter for an aerodynamic position<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A custom-made 3D-printed saddle from Posedla and bags from Apidura<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our perspective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Striking is the 10-52 cassette with one blade: in the Spanish mountains with luggage, a small setback is not a luxury. The fact that an ultradian debutant wins immediately shows how closely gravel racing and ultra cycling have come together in recent times. Incidentally, Colnago has just launched the successor, the G5-X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colnago.com\/en\/news\/a-dream-ultra-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colnago<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravel racer Piotr Havik had never raced in an ultra race before, but immediately won the Badlands: over 800 kilometers and 13,000 meters of elevation gain around Granada in 36 hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cr_score":"","cr_oordeel":"","cr_plus":"","cr_min":"","cr_prijs":"","cr_koop_url":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fietsen","category-nieuws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclingreview.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}