Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Doing a great job of looking like it has a quill to ahead converter in that pic

I don't get the placement of the mudguard stays on these guards, especially the rear one. You can see how the curve of the guard doesn't follow the tyre, as a result of that I think (there is now way to dial them in perfectly).

I think that bike woud be a lot better with unpainted mudguards and black tyres. Still a bit silly, but not as bad as it is now.

The more I look at it the worse it gets. In better news, I think it has cured my desire for a Speedvagen so my bank account is grateful.

Going back to this I hate the look of deep rims and fat tyres on gravel bikes. It looks like a fat bike.

For that matter in most cases I don't think 50mm rims are justified when you're cruising on 47mm tyres with mudguards, upright geometry, 3 bottles, etc. And given that it's a gravel bike, you're probably going up and down a lot of hills, so if you want carbon rims surely you're better off with super lightweight 25mm rims in 90% of cases.

I'm sure small riders are glad that deep 650b wheels exist though