Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

TBF expensive bikes is a very white thing

The Mason actually looks like good fun

One for the big bar lover
https://a.aliexpress.com/_BSCXVQ
It even have a flare ahahah

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Now we're talking!

Essentially we've come full circle back to the kind of bars people were doing early 1900s Tour de France on.

1900 version of the Fairlight pdf? https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1900-bsa-fittings-catalogue-french/

Fantastic stuff.

Some la gravé spam for y'all, anyone selling some 1x cranks message me, want to run a bigger ring up front

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I really enjoy this thread. Some of the bikes posted are fantastic machines
(also prohibitively expensive). I suppose if you live in a small flat one 'gravel' bike could meet all your requirements.
However, I don't think I would buy one because when I ride on a towpath or sustrans route, I like to take it slowly and enjoy the experience. I don't need or want performance. Perhaps I should hang a load of weird looking bags on my old Claud Butler Dalesman and tell everyone it's a gravel bike.

one of my clubmates has done exactly that - he regularly rides our gravel rides on his old 90s claud butler, which for some reason has clearance for 40mm+ tyres. he even did the badger divide on it, I think

Exactly what I did, think my spam might even be a claud butler, or a Nigel Dean but it was striped when I got it. Picked it up for pennies and then built it up with second hand bought components, don't think the whole build cost me more than £200-250. Some nice wide rims and some 40c tyres and its so much fun.

Old mudguard were at least 45mm wide in some bicycles, make sense that it have big clearance.

Even moreso if it was designed for 27 1 1/4 wheels

Are you looking to sell those cranks?

Isn't it easier and cheaper to just buy a bigger chainring?

Reposting this just because.

This is beyond parody.
The 2 bikes are are
1) Mid 80s touring bike
2) Mid 80s MTB with drops.

In theory, although i'm struggling to find many affordable high quality chainrings above 36-38t with matching BCD, which is probably for a reason.

I've been running cheap-ass FSA road rings on my ultra/gravel bike for 18 months. At least the outer ring is. The inner is probably half of a Praxis double setup. 46T was £26 in June last year.

Stronglight 41T for the Bowery cost maybe a tenner.

What BCD?

Looks like 4 bolt 104/64mm

Funny.

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Spa cycles?

They do lots of chainring sizes on square taper.

Don't know where to start with those bars, but that fork makes those 2.2s look narrow as.

With wider tyres, wider tube profiles and wider handlebars, when will we start seeing broader gravelistas to take advantage? It seems only a matter of time before skinny shouldered cyclists are shoved aside, replaced with strapping specimens with wider wingspans.

I do like the aero Farr bars tho. They look pretty cool. Not sure about the point of them but I’m sold.

Just seen price. Fuck that.