Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

I'll just merge them

Have you regained your powers?

No

sobs

Poor Hippo, living in the past

I mean, I could still just delete it. ;0)

As the person foolish enough to start this thread, you have my blessing

Could you just delete gravel bikes entirely?

Nah, it's been useful. Even if gravel in 6 months is just everyone buying hardtails and turning their gravel bikes back into road bikes.

looks at 700x50 gravel tyres, ponders

turning their gravel bikes back into road bikes

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That bike is so much fun to ride.

Cut the bar a bit shorter and get rid of the dropper and you’ll have a cracker.

Ridiculously expensive compare to the Sirrus X (£1700 for a base level alu).

Now this is how you do modern day gravel commentary.

10/10

Hope not, I was planning on getting the Sirrus X 2.0 for £600. Well, I ordered it in May on C2W and its due date is still mid Nov (tbc)...

I did. It would be fair to say that, today at least, if that was a gravel ride, gravel bikes should really just be hard tail MTBs

The G-Ones I had on (like that firefly) were no match for this

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That wasn’t even the worst bit! I took the line to the left over the branches—bumpy but not as slippy. There were a few spots where I just couldn’t get enough traction to maintain forward progress, and had to get off and push. Panaracer Pasela ProTite 32s 🤦‍♂️

Get an MTB. Much fun. ManyBounce. Wow.

Planned mass gravel ride = guaranteed rain

This is a tyre problem not a bike problem

You need to consider a route like yesterday’s North London Dirt 3 in totality. I debated riding my hardtail, but, all in, I think the gravel bike was the right choice. Despite pushing for a few ‘sectors’, I rode 98% of it. If that had dropped below 91% I think I’d have preferred to be slower on the road sections with a hardtail.

I've seen cross tyres out perform mountain bike tyres, they get their grip from cutting through the mud rather than trying to grip the surface.

^ Exactly.

Cyclocross tyres are what I have on my 'gravel bike' throughout the year, Schwalbe x-one Allround 35mm.

Get you easily through far worse conditions than in the photo above plus they ride plenty fast on tarmac too.

"grain"

Gravelisation is almost complete.

Arkose w/ Power wheel.

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