Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Because it offers a far superior ride to aluminium, especially off road

Any frame material can have any riding properties you want..

For instance if you have a tube of aluminium and titanium with the same dimensions and wall thickness the titanium tube will have a higher modulus. A higher modulus means more rigid/less comfortable.

Surface erosion of titanium is, as you put it, way better than aluminium. Not as good as stainless though. And let's be honest, matte grey is a bit boring..

Dunno what you’re chipping paint on if you’re not locking up.

Mud and grit.

You do know 'gravel' bikes can be ridden off road, don't you?

washed after every ride

^ Cyclocross, innit.

Scandium sprite cans!

Random word generator?

Yep. I’ve ridden mine in anger off road and the home done rattle can paint job is chipless

it has resulted in his hip breaking

No that was me. Who else has cycled with a fractured ischial wing?

8 speed cassette have similar jump to those SRAM 10-42 cassette.

Actually welcome it, sometime it nice to Not shift as much, I found I worn my chain out on the 11 speed road cassette cause I took advantage of the smaller jump all the time.

Aluminium steerer in specs? OP was talking about new not second hand .

So apart from he was asking about new and steel/ti yours was a great suggestion ;-)

Again, I haven’t looked at the specs and it wasn’t an actual suggestion.
Mine is full carbon which is why I said.
And I’m aware he’s talking about new. I was merely explaining the reason I haven’t looked at the spec lists.
So srsbsns round here

The Arkose 4 has a full carbon fork, Arkose 3 and below is alloy steerer

The Arkose 4 has a full carbon fork, Arkose 3 and below is alloy steerer

Is that 2018 or earlier?

I should stop jumping off stuff on my Arkose 4 then???

The new ultra and tiagra came with 34t cassette option and that's the official capacity, wouldn't be surprised if it take 36t comfortably.

Not sure, I was looking at the framesets a couple of weeks ago. So probably 2018 models, yeah.

Ah right, good to know. They should have done it 3 years ago! And they also should have done a 1× road/CX/gravel groupset! I don't know what they're playing at

I'd be happier on a full carbon fork than some bonded fork, either way they should both be safe for jumps under two feet :)

They should have done it 3 years ago!

Been there done that with 8 and 9-speed, still can. 10 & 11 with tanpan or Di2.

they also should have done a 1× road/CX/gravel groupset!

All Shimano groups are 1x compatible, why should they make something 1x specific?

Normally you would only call rear derailleurs with a clutch and maybe a long cage variant 1x11 compatible.

Pretty sure mines 2014 or 15, full carbon

Full carbon is stronger than alloy bonded to carbon

I thought that was during an SBC ride.