Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

haha you need to get outside more

Haha, touché (& replied within ten minutes)

If there’s a better use of my time than shitposting on the gravel thread on a Friday afternoon I’m all ears

me, when I see user lukeG on the gravel thread on a friday afternoon: “that’s shitposting from a butt”

To be fair, it is beginning to become one of those that get's funnier each time you say it.

I’m sure I’m now on a number of people’s ignore lists

I'm not the one complaining my GRX finish has rubbed off after giving my bike repeated mud baths :P

I'm past complaining, I've decided it looks very pro this way and I tell myself I am at peace with it.

(Seriously, can't wait for the mud to be gone to fully overhaul the whole bike)

worst person you know voice

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.[2] The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature.[3] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印, sanbōin), specifically impermanence (無常, mujō), suffering (苦, ku) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空, kū).

Characteristics of wabi-sabi aesthetics and principles include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of GRX lever finish rubbing off unevenly through use

It's not that bad out there. At least the snow and ice has gone.

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Honestly better looking than their actual gravel bike (the giant revolting)

Rider needs a bike fit and bike that fits.

Does this belong to a gibbon?

Someone read one too many "pros bikes in the pits" articles?

On the other hand... #internetbikefit

One can't help but feel true cx race bikes deserve their own thread. #likeagravelbikebutfast

Cross doesn’t exist anymore so it’s only right they go here

The take we’re not ready for is that ultra endurance/ gravel race bikes are the ones which need their own thread

Glad to see a weekend of nicer weather has made this thread more peaceful. See you all on here come Monday morning 9am!

Yes please!

Do you know who makes that fork?

tiPak ti forks

Source

Some premium Dutch gravel today:

Bent Ti sure is pricey