Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

good gravel ride last night around the badlands of Esher, Kingston, Hampton & Claygate followed by a beer or two and a moonlit ride home

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Mate of mine has started a Gravel podcast, few episodes so far. First one has Pete Stetina. He recently did the Nova Eroica, he said it was amazing, I’m def going next year.

https://open.spotify.com/show/3vKBF0PpLI8EXjMNlRbEeW

https://thepelotonbrief.libsyn.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-gravelog-with-nathan-haas/id1090662866

He also reckons the WTB Raddler is the best tyre https://www.wtb.com/products/raddler

Nova Eroica

JFGI hippy...

https://eroica.cc/en/nova-eroica

Sorry boss. Looks dope though.

NOVA Eroica is an All Road cycling event in pure Eroica style. Open to all those who are looking for a unique and epic experience in the saddle of their modern racing, gravel or cyclo-cross bikes.

So it's just a sportive in Tuscany then?

Surprised to not see any grindu(b)ro 'rigs' posted in this thread

Flared handlebars, are they worth it? Just have regular drops at the mo, never really use the drops

No

Can you not smash it properly in flared drops?

I really like the FSA pattern which is very slightly flared.

Exactly. Wide is not aero

Wide is not aero

@hippy seems to manage ok

Tiny flared bars seem to be the rage in road racing now

That's all just angling the levers inward, don't think the bars have changed

But anyhow, I didn't really mean no to flared bars in general. Just in the specific case of very rarely riding in the drops.
If you don't ride in the drops, whether or not the drops are flared will make little difference to you.

But I'm using 40cm road bars so maybe I'm just missing out

I believe it’s a race and a sportive at the same time? There’s def a timed and a non time bit.

I went from 38cm road bars to 42cm (at the tops) flared bars and I honestly haven't noticed much of a difference. Probably mostly down to rarely using the drops.

imo if you're only riding in the hoods you'd be much better off moving to a nice set of riser bars for gravel :^)

I might try some other bars but I don't really like the feel of wide drops. Mine are quite long reach so my position on the gravel bike is a bit ridiculous but it's fun and doesn't feel sketchy or anything

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This, probably

Isn't the whole point of gravel bikes to make riding offroad feel sketchy?

is that post... taped in place ?

It's a gateway drug for Roadie Bros

There's some inner tube under the tape also. Which makes all the difference