Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Getting everyone on road bikes was the marketing push

the world has left me behind and that's ok.

I feel seen. Also, best post on this tread in months.

No, but that's available too.

Thorn owners thread >>>>

Ha! 140k followers :D

It takes a dark turn if you scroll back a little

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Eesh. Still going so I assume he dealt with whatever (or it was captured by Russia and is now being used to subvert the global consciousness in between coffee tweets).

That poor man, I have just trawled through his entire timeline, he likes coffee but misses his son.

coffee dad
@coffee_dad
·
Oct 27, 2012
do you know what my son is being for halloween? a ghost, because he decided to drink and drive.

Comfypants spacers as social faux pas?

Wrong!

Big headtubes blow. Why lose adjustability? So you can pretend you're not a world champ desk-jockey with immobile hip-flexors? Such insecurity. Touch your fucking toes.

Spacers are the thinking person's 'endurance' geo. A spacer or three just shows the world "I'm chilling right now. Getting flexy? Maybe I will, maybe I wont" 💅🏼

A spacer or three

Yeah, but not three inches/feet/metres/furlongs

My freshly built Genesis Fugio

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Totally agree

Three inches on a big boy bike.

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This is much better.

Now can we get back to arguing about 1x? ;)

i feel for you, i do, we were all there once, holding onto our last pair of 316 slim straight jeans hoping we'd one day fit back into them, recapture those youthful days.

but alas, we have to accept who we are.

"yeah 30mm of spacers is nothing"

"yeah i can take them off any time i want for the club run"

"oh not today, i need to be out of the house"

the eternal belief you will one day "remove a spacer", when you're back at "your summers best" or when "cross season starts"

much like that fine crafted japanese denim you hold onto, a refusal to accept the spacer height is the true height, if anything, it's only going to get higher as you're in your 30's now, and backs are not known for getting stronger with age.

Truth bombs being dropped in the gnarmac thread

Luckily you don't need to be able to reach the drops on Zwift.

You ride the hoods on zwift?!

Sweet! This and the omnium. Fresh set!

Superb

I feel that there's a market for snap-on spacers.

This is doing nothing for my urges to drop a load of cash on one of these, looks great

I’m not entirely sure what point I’m making or why this seems relevant but....

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Gravel bikes are MTB training wheels for roadies

Isnt it the other way round since MTB are so much faster, better, easier etc.

Anyone know when riverside is released? Sister wants something similar asap