Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

In the beginning, God made 10-speeds and BMX bikes and that was plenty. But then the 1980's came and we discovered “lifestyle sports.” Modern adventure was born and a new kind of bike was needed and so a new kind of bike was marketed to your dad. Designed for the full spectrum of Earth's awe-inspiring topography, these new bikes were strong, rugged and knobby. But capitalist big bike greed created a schism and thus two opposing groups formed; MTB vs. ATB. Mountain bikers chased speed, comfort and lift access in the form of consumer driven technological imperatives. While All Terrain bikers focused on adventure, problem solving and life affirming experiences. Alas, Mountain Bikers and their insatiable thirst for full-face helmets won, and the art of All Terrain Bicycling was lost forever. Or was it?

@maj are you behind this

I would NEVER work with enve

will have to do a rebranding if my grift is being bitten like this

well plastic

This website / game show is what the teens refer to as

“Cringe”

Using language like this as not a deranged person on a forum attempting to do “a bit” but as your advertising campaign is really a what the teens call

“Yikes”

This campaign is made for people who who say stuff like “rad” and “shred” to describe working their team into 20 hour over time week to get their debt collection fin tech out the door

Whole paragraph to say capitalism ruined mtb.

sponsored by Enve.

Finally, ATB's time has come

The desiring machine only works by breaking down, it requires a Maj to break its linkages, expose its inner machinery and organs, slow it's progress. It is this seeming act of resistance and destruction that provides the raw materials of its production, the agitator's actions are turned against her, the flames of her arson revealed to be the furnace powering the machine itself.

We are proud to announce that for the 2022 season MAJ social media content will be supported by Canyon Grizl and that one company who pretends you can recycle carbon rims by making them into tyre levers.

$625 carbon adventure forks are ideal for riding over the ruins of capitalism dontcha know

We're in a fully global and connected society, the only thing holding you back from getting a sponsorship is your failure to game the social media algorithms and neoliberal athletic events that companies use as de facto filters in their noble efforts to diversify.

I thought @amey was already a Trek ambassador?

he's a cop?

I think if sram and enve showed up at my door asking me to promote their stuff I’d [redacted] as I would have clearly fucked up beyond repair

I saw this to myself every morning :(

Too many headset spacers, Why not just build it with a tall enough headtube and a sloped top tube in the first place?

That all terrain bike thing has an Alert, ~73 miles window.
Does that mean "the World’s Most Challenging ATB Route ever imagined" is under 120kms?
I can imagine routes of that length you can't finish under 18 hours even if you can fish with your bare hands, but thats because you have to walk all of it, because you should have brought a MTB.

Probably good marketing, and the Romanceur guy has to pay his mortgage I guess.

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i was discussing this with fellow graveleurs and my number is 45 miles door to door (no cars, trains involved)

Was on a ride last week with two guys who spent about 30 minutes discussing the merits of £4000 carbon gravel bikes, Di" versus SRAM eTap etc. both dressed out in about £600-worth of high end clothing.
On the trail it became pretty clear that their bike handling skills were a little bit "wanting". Maybe spend some of that cash on some trail lessons?

What would be a reasonable rate to charge for these 'trail lessons'?

'If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a tree'

I don't really do numbers because they are depressingly low and Strava annoys me.
So I can relate to 45.

Oh these guys are experts at dodging wrenches already I bet

Lessons are for tennis, golf and skiing.

Bike riding skills are acquired by trying things your mates are doing and falling off from time to time.

Stop trying to sabotage my new enterprise!

Bike riding skills are acquired by trying things your mates are doing and falling off from time to time. Or by dodging, dipping, ducking, diving and dodging wrenches thrown at you by @BareNecessities

Ok, you're hired