Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Every coach worth their salt needs a wrench-fetcher

@LukeG made me aware of this - didn’t realise anyone else was riding with us, let alone earwigging on our très importante conversations.
Mind your own business next time.

I don't really get this attitude. They're not great riders and they have money to burn. And? Maybe they just like fancy bikes and aren't trying to optimize performance over cost.

oooooo gravel beef!

Gravelistias don't eat beef you mug. Only vegan beef. Its like beef, but you know environmentally conscious and tastes like dust.

Greef

PahaHahahah

can we have more detail pls? was there a talk of tyre pressure? sidewall casings? gear ratios?

It was all in jest - can’t have possibly been me as the only thing I’ve ridden in weeks is a £10k SWorks Tarmac…..

I knew you’d secretly be seething at the implication of a £4K bike

I don't see why buying power should relate to skills. I'm poor and I'm clumsy AF off road.

can’t have possibly been me as the only thing I’ve ridden in weeks is a £10k SWorks Tarmac…..

This is the wankiest post you've maybe ever made but I love you for it

Blame / thank @LukeG

He’s like the devil on my shoulder

yeah when I read £4k bike I thought 'what a peasant' !

@Tijmen there’s another one for you lad…. eyeroll

about £600-worth of high end clothing

Ahem, have you seen the current state of PNS customs charges

So the consensus seems to be anti that ENVE reality TV show. How about we just all do a friendly gravel sportive instead? https://www.roadbikesummit.com/king-of-gravel--alpine-tour1.html

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I think I would make a great participant for that gravel reality show.

Entertaining and insightful.

Please enter. Do you think Rob English can turn around a frame for you in time for production starting?

maybe the show is (partly) getting a custom gravel frame made .. issue is it would need 20 seasons

"in today's episode @BareNecessities waits for another week to hear back about Pinion shell"

Christoph Sauser is a legend. I went MTB riding with him a couple of years ago and he was saying he generally uses a Spesh Roubaix for his Swiss gravel stuff as that's all he needs. He has MTB bikes for actual trails and "doesn't have a beard or tattoos" . Big Grav have obviously got to him now!

He does roast (very good) coffee though so taking the piss out of hipsters was probably a bit rich...

British entrant shows up on some fucking 1980s Dawes looking thing and proudly says “I got this from booby jay in 2018, one of the last few people he told to fuck off”

The frame snaps on the first descent, rims barely spinning as the 17mm internal and 32s could not keep up with the baby heads

Rider says it must have been his fault

10 along and 2 down is full of all my gearbox parts

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