Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

You could bodge a cable brake cable to working again with any old cable or even several lengths together.
If you lose your brake fluid you're screwed without new fittings, fluid and a bleed kit

(devils advocate, I have hydros)

even several lengths together.

What and glue them together with Kent's finest clay? No chance

Outers I mean. But any old bike shop will carry inner brake cables if you can make it there. Fluid and bleed kits less so unless it has a workshop

what i'm hearing is handlebar ballsacks bags are bad?

ftfy

I run both mechanical discs and full hydro on different bikes... I gotta say, full hydro is way better. It's cheaper for equivalent stopping power, the cables are more bendy and whilst you can't fix it on the road (or trail), the likelihood of anything actually going wrong is much lower. Plus there's less ongoing maintenance. I think mechanical discs only make sense when you want to take an old groupset and put it on a disc frame.

Would rather wear a backpack than use cable discs.

GRX 10 speed with a Middleburn n/w 32t, will this work? I thought someone said something about no less than 40t a few pages back, but maybe that was just the smallest that Shimano sell.

That's the cheapest way I can think to get hydro drops on my 10sp Vagabond.

Actually, backpacks, there's an idea. What if you move all the bags off your bike, put them on your back, throw the bike into the ocean, and walk from destination to destination? Could make use of the "footpath network" (like bridle ways but there's more of them) avoid traffic and save money.

It will work, but Shimano GRX 10 speed officially maxes out at a 36t cassette, so you might not get the gears you want.

Yes, but the question in the thread seemed to be "why would anyone ever use wide drop bars". It is rumoured that some people go bikepacking on gravel bikes so that's one reason for wide drops.

https://www.crowsurvival.com/brake-fluid-substitute-for-emergencies/

Yeah but that's a sensible answer

interesting although not sure you'll ever get anything down bike brake hoses without a bleed kit.

Anyway, this has gone badly.

Hydraulic brakes are better. As are normal width handlebars unless your bikepacking, in which case bikepacking thread >>>>

If you have cable discs on your bike "for reliability" I hope you refuse to get into cars with hydro brakes too.

No Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / Not quite CX bikes - aka just walk

These actually work. I have one in the back of my car for if I have to top up my MTBs

https://fenwicksbike.com/product/mineral-brake-fluid/

One would fit in a bar bag even with a 35mm SLR inside.

Have you never done a siphon? Simply suck out the delicious DOT fluid through the piston and then suck in the water. My frame has 7 bottle cages, which allows me to carry a spare bottle of water for each brake in case of emergencies.

Sorry I was referring to the difference between hydro v brakes and mechanical v brakes

Discs are another problem

Have you never done a siphon?

Nope

My frame has 7 bottle cages, which allows me to carry a spare bottle of water for each brake

That's a lot of brakes

Alternatively I also carry Johnson's baby oil to help me slide into my bivvy bag at night so I guess that would work if I run out of water bottles

Can I just say, this is the gravel thread and not the bikepacking thread

Deserves to be on every page.

Reading this damned thread is like rubbernecking on the motorway.

As far as I know the 4 bolts 110bcd needs to be GRX specific, based on the notes here:

https://www.superstarcomponents.com/en/raptor-chainring-110bcd-asymetric-narrow-wide.htm

I've got the weirdest boner

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