Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

That is properly honking

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I'm not sure @TooTallTim was challenging anyone to find a worse bike

I follow a thread on my local forum where there's a dutch woman who basically work shifts in a elder care so that she for the majority of the year can fatbike (Surly pugsley) and bikeraft in the woods around Sweden. As I understand it the thing that stops them terrain wise is incline.

So I'm guessing anywhere 62 degrees Longitude?

This is better

I've got a set of these spare if anyone wants them, changed them for the ones with pointless riser bits

#prommuter final level reached

Route planning for gravel riding in Brittany. What are the local rules on what is/isn't ridable, and what are the best resources for planning a ride? My UK go-to is ridewithgps combined with OS maps. The former obviously covers France but doesn't seem to mark bridleways. Are footpaths fair game over there?

I have them and was disappointed in them the flare is nice, but barely noticeable. They're notably stiffer than the FSA Omega Compact bars that they replaced, so a bit less comfortable. I have also realised that I don't really like bars with flattened tops.
Next time our I might try some sort of Ritchey Adventure bar.

Hello, is this the fat bike thread?

Things are different in france. Any bike path and quiet route will be on rwgps so it is your best bet. In my recebt experience, anything that will be bike-ready will be shown on the osm cyclemap layer.
However in france there are no bridleways and connectable right of ways to speak of, as landownership is different. You can venture on footpaths, forest and farm tracks, but potentially can be booted out as that will be private.
GR (grande randonnée) pathways which are long distance pedestrian hiking trails are not designed for bikes.

Cool thanks. So in the below example the dashed line tracks would be ok, and the footpaths possible but maybe tenuous?

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The brown dashed are footpaths. you would be able to engage, but in the case of a breton coastal singletrack i wouldn't recommend it.

The white dashed lines will be farm/exploitation tracks. Most likely you would be fine though it could be fenced with no entry signs as it doesnt come with a right of way. Also they don't "connect" as well as in the Uk so you might find that it doesnt help progression on a long distance ride.
The vibe depends on the place in france. Somewhere remote would be fine, vineyards areas would depend on season, etc.

to give some substance in case you're interested, in france the medieval structure has disappeared due to famous events, but also all farmland was rationnalised and redistributed after the war. the was a big game of swaparoo wherever possible. So there isn't an equivalent to old roman roads and cycle routes are down to local and greater (eurovelos) initiatives.

this map gives you the pedestrian GRs, which could be cycled.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1nh_jR073YQFIYoMudLxSZXoTLUo&ll=46.75920466873938%2C2.2992418074709993&z=7

I support this.

That is fucking stunning!!!

2022 version of this

A bike for a mug

A bike for a thinker.

Big fan of the tin can chainring

shitshitshit please don't like it I posted it ~ironically~. I'm not cut out for amey-posting, it's too much pressure.

Excited by this, not that I’m going to buy one. I wonder how it compares to a Secan.