Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Not on this world. Road and gravel bikes for the most part are designed to be ridden around 100mm stems.

A 100 mm stem is tiny?!

If you aren't running a 130mm stem, are you really a cyclist?

The heck are those drop grips?!

When you are you on the drops your hands don’t sit sideways to your arm?!

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Not on this world. Road and gravel bikes for the most part are designed to be ridden around 100mm stems.

Only in sportives with more stem spacers than seatpost.

-17 and slammed or you're basically a nodder.

I’ll have you know my stem spacer to seatpost ratio is very appropriate and yet I need a 90 mm stem to make reaching the handlebars comfortable.

Looks ergo to me. I don't agree with it, but then again I don't agree with much.
I take particular offence to that adjustable? stem seemingly held together with orc mischief and pixie spunk, stuck to a brutalist tower block from Stratford.

that adjustable? stem

It's a suspension stem

Image no worky. Presume it's a pro with slammed TT set-up and a 70mm stem FFS

I like ergo... those grips would be ideal on a flat bar, but seriously, your palm opposite thumb, where the ulnar nerve is, doesn’t even touch a drop bar!

Nope.

But have this lovely one instead

They should be flipped around, Shirley?

(or taken off and put in the bin)

Ah, a Ride London special

To think, I was going to buy a Surly earlier this year :S

gravel components are not enough to satiate margins, we now have gravel component accessories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHks9QROZC0&ab_channel=PathLessPedaledhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHks9QROZC0&ab_channel=PathLessPedaled

finally, someone posts a good bike in this thread.

We talking spacers?

I'm just trying to picture it in my head, but if you theoretically 'bend' the drops into flat bars, are the grips not in the same position as they would be otherwise? Your hands would only be going from perpendicular to parallel with the frame, as are the grips. I've never used those things so don't have any direct experience with how they are supposed to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHiiTBk6K8&ab_channel=CyclingTips

What are spacers?

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I'm stepping down from the Fugly Bike Championships. I clearly cannot compete these days.

The things that keep your seatpost from slipping?

So many 'systems' :-/

Mustn't be working