SAMI SAURI

WHO IS SAMI SAURI?

Sami Sauri is the Spanish cyclist-filmmaker who built an entire cycling career outside the World Tour ladder — alley-cat racing in Barcelona, the Red Hook Crit, LA Sweat road racing, then long-distance gravel and adventure rides for Komoot, Velocio and Thereabouts. Her work matters because it is the cleanest example of how a non-pro can make cycling their life through storytelling, photography and adventure rides without ever signing a WorldTour contract. For amateurs who love the sport but don't want to chase a results career, she is the model.

KEY IDEAS

The major positions Sauri is known for in cycling and endurance sport.

• →You don't need a WorldTour contract to make cycling your life — adventure, filmmaking and storytelling is a parallel career path that bypasses the racing ladder entirely.
• →Saying yes to a trip you haven't trained for produces some of the best riding of your life — 280km on Route 66 at 31kph from a fixed-gear racer's base is the case in point.
• →Cycling careers branch — fixed-gear → alley-cat → Red Hook Crit → road → adventure gravel is a real path, not a series of unconnected hobbies.
• →The Roadman name as a gender-neutral marker of respect is intentional — riders are riders regardless of gender, and the editorial position should match.
• →Photographic distinctiveness matters — a film with a surfboard strapped to a gravel bike on a remote Atlantic island is what gets people to engage with cycling who otherwise wouldn't.