Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

I still believe cable discs have their place but here seems odd, maybe for that bar-end feelz?

Are chainrings something machined in-house at English?

Edit: Shimano limited edition (or what ever limited parts mean)

This is great IRL

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That is stunning. I would pay a lot for that

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It is lovely and I would not mind if we ended the thread on that one.

...but it is a CX bike right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5e23dZ5NnE&ab_channel=SpecializedBicycles

You <3 nature really

Wash your mouth. Mads would not ride with that bar / hood set up.

I quite like the look of these too. I was wondering if there was a clip on version just to add a bit to rest my hands on..

Nor that paint job

There is a clip on.

can you send me a link??

I would probably steal suitable bar ends from a MTBer or something. Price is a bit steep.
https://r2-bike.com/de/ridefarr

And of course it's a link from the continent.
Don't know if they ship to UK.

la cycling seems wild, because they always include like...20 miles of riding next to a motorway but frame it as

"this is good, actually - desirable, yes i love having to ride on the pavement because there is 7 lanes of traffic to my left and a motorist can legally run me over, it's actually satisfying"

like sure, unlike riding 10 miles of A road in london, if you survive the white van men, taxi drivers and nissan qashquis you get to a lovely mountain, instead of windsor great park where they ask you to dismount your bike. but like damn, they post the view from the top and all you see is this haze.

i tried to turn my youtube back to 1080p before realising it was smog

but alas, at least they do get easy access to nice looking bikes and parts, that and trans healthcare.

and it doesent rain there .. I think

really? i've put on my armbands and started swimming over

I've just got back from a trip in north california and my overall takeaway was 'how on earth has any sort of cycling culture managed to exist here'

did see one MASH frame in the SF wild though, so theres that

'how on earth has any sort of cycling culture managed to exist here'

has it though? What we see could just be a tiny tiny fraction of a super niche subculture .. like on social media.

I saw plenty of people riding, that made it all the more boggling tbh. Lake Tahoe, people getting nudged out by enormous 3-axle pickups and still smiling, chatting to the rider on their wheel. Its a whole can of worms of course, and I wouldnt want to distract from the elastomer vs SID chat

Tired of this Andersonesque gravel-irony stuff. Moar performance. Moar Lucas Brunelle. Pls.

Here's a photo of a beefed up gravel bro, smashing it in the drops on an e-gravel bike. That should help restore balance

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I didn't even rename that file. It already said 'e-gravel-hero'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovrfbIMyD8&ab_channel=SCOTTSports