Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Needs an American disaster infomercial, and that funny geezer in the sportswear using a ziplock bag and shrugging.

Are you supposed to be able to pack that in a bike pack or similar?!

It's just the brand name Gravel, no connection to our definition of gravel.

Great so now Gravel is trademarked?
What do we need to start calling it, pebbles? Very small stones?

Very small stones?

No need to body shame.

My vote goes for macadam or filth

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2021/jul/02/bikepacking-and-gravel-bikes-new-concepts-in-off-road-cycling-or-marketing-fad

https://www.gravelspecific.com

I can't fit all of those into the thread title

Might make room for 'smut' though

Maybe "bikes for road surfaces with varying sizes of stone who are not MTB's"?

Edit: I do kind of like the idea of a smut bike, would make the need for specific gravel bike pron thread redundant

Vote for gilings and loess pls

Id like to combine a few words please. Smut and dirt and lumps to make "Dirty smut lumps"

Thank you and goodbye

Filth / Filthé / Froad / AFB / Not quite CX bikes

Only you can edit your username

I welcome all thread title suggestions

Except those from @amey

No need to rename it as there's none in England.

Kidney stone riding.

Y'all gon' make me loess my mind,
up in here,
up in here.

Dust bunnies, smut, grime and macadam on a bike

macadam

That is one of the few words I proudly learned while touring in Bosnia years ago, spelled "makadam" there.

Could only say two sentences really:

• asfalt o makadam? (tarmac or gravel?)
  
• ene kava dva pivo hvala (one coffee two beers thanks)
  

But macadam is short for tarmacadam, which is tarmac, otherwise known as asphalt.

Not quite; macadam is the 18th-c. invention of Mr Macadam, viz. a carefully laid roadbed of different grades of crushed stone: larger stones as a foundation layer, and smaller stones on top. This could be laid on surfaces other than bedrock, drained well, and stood up to the passage of vehicles; tarmac was a later invention, which sprayed tar on top as a binder to keep dust down. Modern asphalt lays the aggregate and tar in one.

tarmac was a later invention, which sprayed tar on top as a binder to keep dust down

I look forward to when this cutting edge technology reaches Norfolk

Found some time to ride my GM, it ain’t fast but it’s fun. The shifting isn’t perfect with the tanpan, either ticking in 11 or lagging into 1. Not sure if this is just the way it is or if I need to fold the cable tighter or something. Regardless, perfect bridleway bandit.

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