Crust Romanceur. I hate road bikes edition.

Na, then its just my Stumpy but with drops instead of risers. I fitted a Nitto MB-1 to the Crust and it looked shit. I use it like an actual road bike (that can go off road), not a grocery getter, which this is.

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This is so good! Really great build

Ahh forgot you had this.

We don't want to blur lines too much!

That‘s a very pretty Trek Multitrack ;)

Zefal HPX are disappearing here, dunno if it's a supply gap / Brexit 'benefit' or whether Zefal have stoppped making them. I'll be gutted if they have, I'm a size two down after losing it in a tumble and can't find another one anywhere.

It's not in the pump section of the zefal website, so I guess they don't make them anymore.

And there I was feeling silly I had three and a master blaster. They will be more valuable than bitcoin soon

I think in another thread you mentioned you liked the Ultradynamicos better than the Rat Trap Passes. What's the difference? Looking at a set of Cavas Race.

Bike's looking great! Haven't washed my Cantibolt since I got it.

They feel like they roll a lot faster. But, different wheels (very different rims), different wheel sizes, tubeless vs non-tubeless etc. Feel less dead to me.

On a personal level I just really don't like Jan Heine either, so I will not support RH. I only have RH tyres because they came on the Stumpy when I bought it.

Tubeless/Tubeful make a huge difference in feel, a dead feeling tyres get transformed when ridden with tubeless.

I like how this bike has totally different tyres back and front. They do totally different jobs so why would you use the same? Still, it’s 99% the case on bikes.

Slick rear tyre can make the bike feel really fast, even with a knobbly / fat front. This was one of mine from 2009

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In bmx racing people most people use bigger tyres in the front than rear.
But with this bike ^, when you're in terrain where you need this much grip up front, you also want some damping and grip from the rear tyre.

It make sense for one thing is that you feel like you can have a much more responsive rear end when accelerating giving the feeling the bike feel faster than it should be.

But yes, 100% on damping/grip when the road become very UK.

Yeah, exactly @D_Mars - where I am it doesn't matter if the back gets a bit loosey goosey, I just need as much steering grip as possible, hence this combo.

My Ultradynamico Mars JFFs (27.5 x 2.3, super-knobby) feel way faster than the GravelKing SKs (27.5 x 2.1, semi-knobby) that I had on my Ritchey before. Both ran tubeless with the same sealant. I initially viewed UD as hypebeast nonsense, but they've proved to be genuinely good (but expensive) tyres.

Yeah, I am intrigued as to how their Race models ride, cause these already feel great. But they do be pricey. Though tbf, I only ride the Crust on like two shortish rides a week so I expect they'll last a long time.

TBF the Gravel King are probably the most lacklustre tyres in term of feel and ride quality.

A 300g 38mm GK slick felt way slower than a 42mm Hetres that’s heavier and bigger.

Appalling customer service.
@JB could you take out the calipers for me?

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Na, but you can message the guy I sold it to a few months ago. Kidding. Don’t. He won’t stop texting you if you do -as I have experienced.

I had loads of clearance tho with 650x48 Cava’s.

Do u still have the stump jumper?

You sold this?

I sold it

JB !

I hope this is not true

Got dragged into the LA bike hype.