Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

It looks good! I have heard that ss is the new 1x12 (unless you ask Jan, then it's the new 2x6).

What passes for gravel in Herts, today

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Route?

Bit road heavy in the middle, route needs a little refinement, but some tough short climbs and quite a lot of actual gravel.

c.35k; c.40% road by distance, more like 25% by time.

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Cheers, out of the 12 bikes I own only one has those new fangled changeable gears now. I’m not counting the 6 speed Brompton, because 1; it’s not a real bike and 2; they are not real gears.

What’s wrong with dt shifters?.

Can't sell me aero performance in one hand and retrogrouch fumbling in the DT shifts in the other. Seems to me he's always trying to justificate aesthetic choices with some obscure performance benefit.

would love to go a week without any jan heine references

#meta

Nope. Never used one. It was always on the todo list but I'd moved onto Adamos by the time I could get hold of one. It still doesn't look like a TT saddle. Is it just a shorter version of the stock saddle?

Well I don’t equate dt shifters with fumbling so I guess we’re coming from different places. They can be the cleanest (short of electronic shifting). Probably the best option for touring. Probably not for UK gravé.

It’s not like riders with STI-style shifters don’t misuse and mash their gears.

I wish you could get bikes where more of the controls are away from your hands, seat tube brakes levers, or maybe discs where you reach all the way down to the caliper on the hub.

i mean they did place the primary power device by your feet

Lolz

Foot-juggling basically. It’ll never catch on.

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I had a pub bike a few years back with DT shifters. Can't recall any benefits, but I guess if you're in the middle of Mongolia it's easier to fix than an STI. Or if you need a warranty replacement from Shimano.

easier to fix than an STI

The health clinics out there have really come on leaps and bounds of late.

True, but it's still bloody embarrassing when you walk in through the front door of the hospital and can't remember the discretely named clinic and have to ask at the front desk for directions to that clinic.

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Found some primo Swiss alpine gravel yesterday. Around Disentis region, it is ridiculously beautiful. Would recommend 10/10

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Jan Heine inspired bike doing rough stuff on the Isle of Wight

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