Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

• Gravel for 60km round Kent ✋
  

ø Riding gravel on XC bike with carbon rims and SID Ultimate SL and a dropper

genuinely can't tell what's inverse snobbery, outright snobbery or tongue-in-cheek joshing.... do people really care what other people ride, or the spec of their bike?

apart from e-bikes.... those guys can go fuck themselves

genuinely can't tell what's inverse snobbery, outright snobbery or tongue-in-cheek joshing.... do people really care what other people ride, or the spec of their bike?

no

apart from e-bikes.... those guys can go fuck themselves

I have two eBikes

oh

Double fuck yourself.

Is the are ebikes shit discussion what has been missing on this thread all this time?

genuinely can't tell what's inverse snobbery, outright snobbery or tongue-in-cheek joshing

Post-structuralist discourse innit

Cross is coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIvLRaafvIc&ab_channel=PathLessPedaled

but i draw the line at "you might actually need this mini computer to work your dropper post"

Route a dropper on a full sus, I dare you.

XC bikes don't come with dropper posts :(

I think that's more to meet a price point than anything else now

Unless the buyer is a total weight weenie

to meet a price point

11 grand and no dropper

https://www.trekbikes.com/gb/en_GB/bikes/mountain-bikes/cross-country-mountain-bikes/supercaliber/supercaliber-9-9-xx1-axs/p/35145/?colorCode=black

I expect that's being marketed towards the 'Ooh, isn't it light!' end of the spectrum

An AXS dropper probably weighs more than some XC pro racers

Some tan sidewalls and that's got @Dick written all over it

Meh - it’s alright - far too much SRERRRRRM for my liking - I will also insist on those upside down front shocks (I know nothing about suspension but they look cool).
Swap out the Sram for some nice XTR Di2 and you’re laughing.
Although Cannondale FSI has always been the only MTB that catches my eye.
https://www.cannondale.com/en-fr/bikes/mountain/cross-country/f-si/f-si-hi-mod-ultimate

I think that's more to meet a price point than anything else now

Unless the buyer is a total weight weenie

Not running a dropper on my XC bike, but gonna have to install one as I’m gonna sell it.

of course you will buy an MTB with BB30

disappointed in your reply I was expecting: "then buy a downcountry bike"

do people really care what other people ride

Questioning the forum's raison d'être; is that on the schedule?

XC - Trail - Enduro - DH

I'll accept nothing inbetween, with the possible exception of freeride

£12k hardtail with no dropper. A new standard has been set

uh .. you forgot gravel and road bikes that can take 30c

Aren't we in the mtb thread?