Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

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I want that DBAD for Christmas.

I have some Curve Walmers (admittedly the narrowest ones) and they’re so comfortable. I can’t see myself riding anything narrower again.

Full Fact will be on his case exposing him for the lefty he is!

Both of those are gorgeous.

I thought self-hate was a british thing

Must have got it from my mum then.

I rode a Salsa Cowchiper 46cm for a good year, but I often felt like a kite in the wind.

I have Funn G wides 50cm.. :-/

How wide?

It is the widest one from Curve. 60 at the hoods. Commuting feels great, tomorrow i will test them on a 120km tour and see how it goes.

"why do I have upper back and neck pain"

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly.

The only thing that justifies having a gravel bike over a hardtail is that is still a decent road bike. Remove that and you just have a shit MTB.

+1

That hits the nail on the head.

commuting on 60cm?? what? you stay behind the cars all the time? no line cutting for you i am guessing ... <--- forget this!
correction....
actually 60 is just a bit more than shoulder wide, so i guess is fine for commuting, carry on, forget what i said before...
looks sooooo wide on the picture you posted!

A gravel bike needs to be just good enough at riding on the road that you don't buy a roof rack.

Basically on the one side you have "dialled road race machines" and "knife edge crit scalpels" these go on roof racks and driven to sportives or whatever to be ridden by wankers.

Then if you go too far to the other side you have "dialled downhill machines" and "knife edge trail scalpels" these go on roof racks and are driven to trail centres or whatever and to be ridden by wankers.

In the middle you have gravel bikes, they're good because they don't go on roof racks. (But they are ridden by wankers.)

Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / Not quite CX bikes/ - aka Just buy a Roof Rack

I only ride gravel bikes so y'all don't feel so embarrassed about how slow you are on the road.

Granker™

Isn't tarmac is just gravel that's been glued together?

Isn't this whole thread as useful as a gravel bike itself?

#fullinceptioncircle

Visual aid because I know some of you are frankly, dumb jocks.

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Bitumen, please