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Cheers, reckon it will see a lot of road use as I'll commute on it, but 38-9 is still a decent gear. Was also thinking about a second wheelset, would stick the same cassette on them though.
Are both wheelsets going to be the same or what you looking at? The bike comes with the hunt 4 season, but i'm contemplating adding the 4 season wide for gravel ones, or even go 650b.
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Malcolm built me up some Borg 28s for gravel: no nonsense, robust alloy wheels.
For road I’ve just got a different freehub adapter for my Bontrager Aeolus (they use DT Swiss freehubs so fortunately it’s just a straight swap).
One of the obvious downsides of Ekar is the fairly limited wheel range at the moment.
RecoveryRide
Depends how much you'll be riding it on road and on the cassette, I guess. 38-9 is still 4.2, which is a bit harder than 50-12, so if you were riding a road compact you've (not quite) lost your top gear, but not much else. If you don't mind freewheeling at >50kph and weren't planning on a very fast group road ride, I can't see there being an issue.
I'm running 2 wheelsets and will have the 40T upfront (largely because that's what I could get). Am putting a 9-36 cassette on the road wheels and 10-44 on the gravel ones, as - according to Malcolm - Ekar will allow me to do that without changing chain length. I'm hoping that will cover all the bases.