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  • My experience doesn't tally with his last point though (Force 22). If I wind the reach towards the bar, the bite point also moves towards the bar. Conversely if I put the reach to maximum, the bite is immediate.

  • Nice work. How are you doing your "DIY respray"? It doesn't look like a rattlecan job eh.

    Looks like one of your chainrings fell off though.

  • Oh, I should've waited a bit. You do a bit of graf when you were younger? :)

  • MTB wins for me, easily. Please tell me this guy isn't just Joe Average rider?

  • Anyone used Terravail Cannonball? Found them in 650x47 (and in black which is better)

    Also have the neat option of matching the front Cinturato M 650x50 with a Cinturato H 650x50 in the back but then I still have the super tight fork clearance going on so anything wet is going to get scuffy.

    Still have a Mezcal 2.1 that would fit on the back and would be a helluva lot grippier than the Venture.

  • Yeah I have the cannonballs in47mm on 650b pretty decent all round gravel tyre on road actual gravel and shit from a butt. Can only compare with WTB byways in 48mm which were slower on road and terrifying if anything was mildly damp

  • I’m still young 🥲
    Haven’t painted anything but bikes though. Oh and the plastic strips on my car bumper when I was 17

  • Yeah, these will be used mostly rough off-road so I'm not worried about slick centrelines and similar for road use. They've got aggressive knobbage but it's quite low, maybe lower than the blocks on a GravelKing SK. How were they to setup tubeless?

  • I took all the plastic bits off my car when I was younger. Weight weenie (not really, I had to make up for the 200kg of stereo system somehow). Anyway looks neat. I'm wondering where my threshold is for paint scratches before I get a bike resprayed. Probably far too high and I'm more likely to replace it.

  • The 2021 Genesis Croix De Fer 50 are currently delivering in.... January 2022, at the earliest.

    Simple Bike Store:

    SIZE S WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY IN JANUARY 2022!
    SIZES M, L, XL WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY IN MAY 2022!

    If you've not pre-ordered it already, I think it's going to be nigh on impossible to get a new bike this year.

  • I'm wondering where my threshold is for paint scratches before I get a bike resprayed.

    At a certain point it's easier to make it into a feature/pattern and convince yourself the bike came like that

  • I'm still of the "chicks dig scars" mindset, so most of mine probably remind me of some (hopefully funny now) incident. I did think about having the Shiv redone but it seems silly given that it only comes out once a year these days.

  • Great tubeless can go silly low pressure
    I think better than gravel kings (only used gk in 700c 3somethingmm) in grotty stuff.

    A bigger MTB tyre would probs be best option if you are aiming at the majority being off-road. I like the cannonball as a compromise across all the terrains.

  • I did Badlands on GK SK 700x50 which I probably ran too high psi being a noob but I had zero issues with them during the race. The initial setup was a bitch though. I think I did two tape jobs and two shops had a go too before they sealed. Very flexible tyre so they're more sensitive to tape wraps apparently. But I don't have those wheels on the gravel bike any more so its 650B 4 lyf.

  • I got some in that size with the extra tough casing. They seated very easily and no punctures yet, but they felt a bit dead to ride.

  • Let some air out? I don't think I have enough dirt experience or push my bike hard enough to notice subtle differences. I know when I don't have grip on steep loose and I'm just sliding down a hill (if I was less chicken I'd just roll it but, you know, corners) I know when I've not got enough air in, when the tyre folds on steep corners but that's about it.

    Maxxis Crossmark in 1.95 are another option

  • GK SK 700x50

    Any chance you still have this tyre and be looking to get rid of it? I'd like to try fit it to understand the clearances

  • I do, they're going on the grrl's Sequoia though when I eventually get around to TLing it.

  • Im trying to put together a gravel build on a budget for a good friend of mine.
    So far the only things I have are a Trek Crockett frame and a GRX 600 1x chainset.
    I'm planning on going with GRX hydraulic and I was wondering if an SLX 11 speed rear mech would work with the GRX levers and chainset?
    If that wont work, what are my other options for a budget 1x11 setup?

  • I'm planning on going with GRX hydraulic and I was wondering if an SLX 11 speed rear mech would work with the GRX levers and chainset?

    With Wolftooth TanPan it will

    Also who has stock?

  • If you don't own the SLX rear mech already just buy the GRX one, if you need to get it to work with bigger cassettes you can always add a Roadlink, much neater than a TanPan solution

  • Stock is an entirely different question, this is all just a theoretical build at the minute.
    Good to know it will work with the tanpan if it comes to it, I'll keep that as an option if I can get a used SLX or similar.

  • Don't have anything at the minute, just saw that the SLX was £50 new as opposed to the 11 speed GRX being a lot more and I vaguely remembered hearing that GRX was compatible with MTB bits.

  • Only the cassettes I think. GRX has same cable pulls as 11-speed road groups

  • Entries have opened for the National Gravel Championships if anyone wants to put their money where their mouth is about the best UK gravel set-up

    https://kingscupgravel.com/

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