meet the family

Meet Clem

We met Clem Shovel first at the European Singlespeed CX Championships in Mons-en-Pévèle back in 2015, not far from his home in Lille, northern France. A region which has been cycling-enthusiastic for decades, with having famous races like „Paris-Roubaix“, „Tour de Flanders“ or even the „Tour de France“ passing by every now and then.

”You simply will not meet anyone more 'up for' a ride than Clem.”

The moment we met him he told us about his plans to ride the „Transcontinental Race“, the starting point for our collaboration as we were just about to develop our Audax long-distance road bike and were happy to get feedback and advice of an experienced rider willing to switch his gear for ours. Since then Clem is part of the family, and riding a lot of long distance rides and races for us on different bikes since then, such as the "Tuscany Trail“, the "Highland Trail 550“ or the "French Divide“ , the "Malteni Gravel Bootleggers“ to name only a few - but still not missing his favourite rather compact cross races like the "3peaks“ in Yorkshire, UK, the "Gogo Hellcross“ or each Singlespeed CX European Championships. Riding keeps Clem always busy in-between his job as sales representant for our bikes in France, and full-time dedication to his family.