• Looking ahead to finally having a proper job after years of studying-induced austerity, and half thinking of a new bike. I’d like it to be a versatile road bike that can do a bit of gravel and touring as well as general riding/commuting. Ideally I’d like steel/Ti, hydro disks and decent clearance for guards, with budget stretching to max 2k So far I’m thinking:
    Condor Fratello Disc
    Fairlight Strael 2
    Planet X picknflick/tempest (wait for good deal)
    Bosrdman ASR

    What’re the hive mind’s thoughts on these? Any obvious ones missing?

  • Condor Fratello Disc

    I have a calliper one - nice audax bike, except when the audax takes you on a muddy bridlepath and you have to take the wheels off and scrape the mud out of the mudguards. Not a lot of fun on big gravel either - the kind of pebbly stuff you get on a lot of UK ‘gravel’ paths. The disc version spec says 28mm as well, so don’t see how it’ll be much more flexible terrain-wise.

  • Basically the calipers version is just a traditional British audax bike that only have a tiny bit more clearance than road bike.

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