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That's nice. Silver spokes and everything. Class

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Lovely

Yours?

Nope, a guy I rode with on Wednesday evening. Friend of a friend.

I think it looks pretty nice and you don't see many of them IRL although the stem/spacer issue needs addressing.

https://www.velonews.com/gallery/lachlan-mortons-cannondale-supersix-evo-se-for-unbound-gravel/

https://www.velonews.com/gallery/peter-sagans-specialized-s-works-crux-for-unbound-gravel/

(It’s cropped like that on VeloNews.)

Nobody wants to photograph their bikes side-on anymore, for fear of the bdhu police

See. I LOVE that!

Yeah Sagan’s is so OTP. Total n00b.

Bored of kansas already 😩

Loses a point for not reworking 'metron' wheel stickers to 'morton'

Couple of days in Snowdonia this week. Awful riding. Don't go.

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Looks dgsht.

Some bastard's left a load of cat litter lying about too

I think I know which way they went

That looks like ogwen valley to me ! Always rains loads of cats.

Close. This is telegraph pass up from Llanberis. Did do the Ogwen road after it though, which was equally awful. Pen y pass too.

Was expecting awful weather but the cloud did nothing more than sit there.

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That’s some juicy tarmac with inspiring photo work. Would you be ok with posting your route?

Ah cheers. Yeah, route is here https://www.komoot.com/tour/785883794

The bit after llyn Ogwen down to capel curig is decent but I took the road; there's supposedly a track that runs parallel. From capel curig up to Pen y Pass is an absolute grind and I wouldn't recommend it. I suspect there's a better option, I just didn't look closely enough. Trouble is round there that there's no 'nipping across a valley' as there's often a mountain in the way. I would highly recommend both those first climbs though. Telegraph pass joins up with the rangers path up Snowdon and dinorwig is a closed road.

I also did stwlan damn the day before, which is brilliant, and for some gravel stuff clocaenog/llyn brenig are brilliant.

Some more photos: Clocaenog and view off the top of dinorwig

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I think he's only meant to run max 30mm spacers below the stem on that fork.

See: https://eu.ritcheylogic.com/eu_en/bike/forks/wcs-carbon-adventure-gravel-fork

A friend’s Salsa Stormchaser after he won the SS division of the Unbound XL 350mi gravel race. He’s a monster on the bike.

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I like these roadish elements here mixed with dirt

The path out the back of capel curig is doable if you travel light as its a boggy farm track across the moraine then follow the ogwen cycleway on the old railway line through tunnels mint tarmac down to bangor harbour . You can get the train to london from there via chester and crew. Estimate your time then triple it . Its hard going around there.