• I like this trend towards fat-tyre drop-bar bikes. You can do anything easier than blue/red MTB routes just fine, which is like 95% of the off-road miles in this country (when you account for hiking trails and the like). And, importantly, you can put 35mm slicks on and you've got a perfectly useful commuter or tourer. Can't really do that with a hardtail (at least not without being laughed at)

    Zipps for gravel though, get out.

  • Zipps for gravel though, get out.

    That's because you haven't experienced the sweet sound of deep section carbon when you're cruising at 40km/h on flat, hardpacked grus.*

    *or struggle to keep over 20 because of the headwind.

  • The sound might be nice, but the performance gain (with those 2" tyres) is probably a few milliwatts...

    (What I really mean is "I'm too poor to own Zipps and it's frustrating")

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