Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Becuase on many lovely bikes the aesthetic weak point is the 44mm headtube - 1 1/8 steerer transition (that gunnar for example). I think tapered headtubes look really great so wondered why someone like Standert, which cost a few quid, don't use them

If the mitring is difficult that would explain an increase in manufacturing labour cost i assume, so not just penny pinching

That Gunnar up the got it wrong but it is the excess head tube above the top tube I don't like. A sloping top tube would have sorted it.

An organic tapered head tube is really nasty looking imo. A straight ID44 headtube looks great with EC44 (external cup) headset and internal top bit.

If down tube and top tube are larger diameter tubing i think straight head tube looks way better than anything else. Especially if bulky carbon forks are used and frame is of a larger size

An organic tapered head tube is really nasty looking imo. A straight ID44 headtube looks great with EC44 (external cup) headset and internal top bit.

Yes, has to be a nice smooth taper with external cups, not the lumpy ones with internal cups. The flush dust cover on the gunnar is also not helping things, nor that whisky fork that looks offset, and certainly not all 44mm headtubes are as awful as that.

and I am really thinking of road/ gravel bikes where the tubes are quite slim

I also subscribe to the opinion of straight 44mm > tapered.

What about straight IS52? I've still no idea how this will look once assembled, but I am excite.

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Not normally a fan of integrated cups but I could be persuaded by the finished article. Do update.

No gravel on my commute today
(44mm head tube and all)

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Is that the bike version of the anti-homeless benches? The anti-bikepacker?

No gravel in the Weinstraße

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Where's this? Alsace?

Rhineland-Palatinate, just south of Neustadt

Ah. So you're close to where I am ATM. Currently going back and forth between Odenwald and Bad Kreuznach area.

No gravel here either.

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Nor is there any in the Palatinate hills!

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is that so you can run full internal cables??

trek makes the best gravel bikes

but they also makes bikes for police in america so you are CANCELLED

Loads of the Harry Potter movie forest bits were filmed in Swinley. I got chased off the set where they caught the invisible horse-thing carriages by a very angry security guard who had clearly had enough of being at the end of a cheeky trail and being buzzed by riders non stop at weekends.

Aren't you a trek poster boy???

Lance Ameystrong

Doping on taiwanese alloy frames

Exactly.

Issit? Nice. I’ve got a Harry Potter loving friend who’d love that. Sounds like a good day trip.

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Big beautiful bike