Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Finally got round to weighing the Sonder.
Size 50 frameset with headset weighs 1.94kg
Uncut fork weighs 748g

Without Context. I laughed.

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It exists 😱

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we laugh but except for Sidi no1 really makes replaceable sole rubber bits essentially making all shoes 'single use' which is such a shame

can confirm gravel riding ruins recon soles
wonder if my cobbler could glue some rubber back on

It exists

Time to lay off the LSD, Phil

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What's this in my hand?! Oh wait, it's just...
n o t h i n g

wonder if my cobbler could glue some rubber back on

Mine did, very successfully. Recessed cleats and a good cobbler = long lasting bike shoes

ShooGoo. buy a couple of tubes, keep layering as it wears out.

Or fit some lower gears, so you all don't have to keep walking up the hills

Groad?

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So my cheapo 1x AliExpress groupset turned up, to stick on a Bombtrack arise as, obvious as it may seem to everyone else, I hadn’t appreciated how useless singlespeed is on a “gravel” bike.

But the real news is that I hadn’t appreciated that a 42t cassette is the same size as a 42t chain ring. I mean, I “knew” but I didn’t really “know”

I fished the thing out the box and spent 2 minutes trying to work out what it was. For someone that’s only ever used 12-25 cassettes or 16t sprockets on a single speed, it’s comically massive

Quite CX, and I like it

you should see my mtb combo ... 51 cassette and 32 chainring

These are both great

They both make me want a rim braked CX/grave but then I remember we live in the UK and not Cali.

I want one as a reminder not to ride in sloppy conditions.

I feel that ‘Gravel’ bikes have been marketed in the UK as a winter option, which I think is totally wrong. Gravel is only acceptable in summer. I want a Dust bike, really.

21 years old, rim brakes and 28mm tyres. Brighton UK. March. You'd be surprised....

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you ride your bike in sloppy conditions?

I only go outside when its dry now...

I’m seeing an awful lot of people out riding their gravel bikes on the road at the moment.

A marketing triumph.