Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Yeah they are, live the next village south and there is an abondance of lovely off road paths.

Not sure I'd call any of it 'gravel' though. You need a Mud'n'Chalk bike. Although I just ride my touring bike as in the summer it's all perfectly manageable.

For 'gravel' you need to head to the New forest, where you can legit do just 'gravel' loops.

I was cycling home with my wife last night and someone on a grav wav bike popped out a side street in bibs and a short sleeve shirt, with a rapha handlebar bag and a musette, oakleys and a moustache. My wife immediatly said '...watches one video with Lachlan Morton in it...'

and I've never been more in love with anyone ever.

boast post thread >>>

ok I just got a Rapha EXPLORE collection email and now last two pages feel like an elaborate marketing campaign

#ADVENTUREONYOURDOORSTEP

I rode my "gravel bike" across America before it ever went off-road so fuck all y'all, it's my bike and I'll ride where I want to, ride where I want to.

Anyway, someone give me some 700x45 tyres now please?

hope your wife didn't take it too badly.

Same here. Checked the "collection", who uses an uncapped water bottle on gravel anyway?

I tried to see what you're all on about, but once again when faced with Rapha's execrable excuse of a website I decided once again, after watching buffering circles gently rotating for a few minutes, that life was too short for having to wait for that miserable site to get its act together.

This thread and that guy: "track bikes are so pointless, it's all marketing anyway, my house literally isn't even within 1km of a velodrome, my £6k road bike is much more sensible and practical, I'm upset that others ride or enjoy track bikes"

I'm gonna get a frame that takes 2.8s, drops and a rigid fork and ride it around slowly on the road out of spite

If gravel includes like dirt, mud and kinda rocky stuff there's fucking loads round here, throw in a few old railway lines and you can do 20-50 mile loops from more or less my doorstep, or much further if you want to get a bit peaky. You have to cross the odd road or use a technically asphalt but mainly not old farm track here and there but they all link up pretty well.

I spend an awful lot of time riding slowly in ditches.
I kinda like it

English gravel may be rubbish, but Scottish gravel is plentiful.

new cervelo caldeonia looks...interesting

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looking forward to dentist dave spluttering past me on that down the mersey

I think you'll find that it's Modern Road, and not Gravel. The marketing is certainly Gravel-flavoured though:

We don’t see road bikes as delicate machines meant only for putting watts into and receiving speed from. They’re an extension of our soul, of the way we want to see our worlds, and the lives we want to live [continues]...

That doesn't even make sense. Expanding:

1. Road bikes are an extension of our soul
   
2. Road bikes are an extension of the way we want to see our worlds
   3a. Road bikes are an extension of the way we want to live
   or 3b. Road bikes are the way we want to live
   

They’re an extension of our soul, of the way we want to see our worlds, and the lives we want to live [continues]...

Looks like any other modern MAMIL boat.

I read today Caledonia was the Roman name for Scotland, meaning ‘wooded heights’ but then I googled it and it might mean also "hard of feet" so now I'm confused. #csb

It looks like every other road bike released in the last 5 years.

Have just picked this up. Looking forward to some fun miles this weekend.

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Good grief. The days of 'long and low' Cervelos is obviously over if that's supposed to be a road bike. Stacktastic.

Bikes are getting uglier and uglier and uglier.

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Saw a peloton similar with bar bags last Saturday.

Srsbsns Gravel