Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

"Looks heavy"

The current radishvest obsession with retro mountain bikes is quaint. At least you can claim vintage road bikes ride nice.

I agree

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Vintage, retro...just fancy ways to say shite tyre clearance innit?

Yeah, still fun to underbike thought.

Yeah, I'm all for a bit of underbiking but sometimes you just wanna smash the descents, not rims.

Bit like riding CX bike with canti as a gravel bike, no?

There's a joke in there about shite brakes not slowing you down like a pinch flat does I'm sure.

Prolly needs to chill out.
Takes himself too seriously.

Since he sold the radavist page it’s become a pretty boring advert feed presenting products they sell as product reviews or features etc, with the odd shit old bike thrown in to throw people off the scent.

Yesterday had to make an emergency tyre purchase on my ride, picked up a Terravail 700x42 cannonball.
I’m now wondering if it’s a bit too early in the year for this tyre and should have gone with Rutland?

Also Dorset has no gravel

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Found these had a surprising amount of grip. Used them year round in Epping SFAB and mostly survived

toomuchgravel

Actually, a sad one, a long section of the landscape destroyed by 4x4 hobbyists who took off the top-soil between Soar-y-Mynydd Chapel and Tyncornel hostel.

Is that not grade that has been laid? looks more fun now anyway

Is that not grade that has been laid? looks more fun now anyway

I didn't really capture more than the start but it is completely unrideable for about 2/3 mile, very steep with a loose rocky gully that varies in width, there are some sections of grass path that remain but they are narrow and you risk a ~1.5m fall into the gully.

Sounding a bit negtive.. highly recomend the Elan Valley and area around the Devils Staircase for anyone wanting to live out some rough stuff collective cosplay.

Is anyone planning on doing the Traka in Girona at the end of the month?

Excellent fingers crossed they serve me well!

Sounding a bit negtive.. highly recomend the Elan Valley and area around the Devils Staircase for anyone wanting to live out some rough stuff collective cosplay.

I know that area fairly well but I don't recognise that last pic, looks good - any hints on location? Cheers. Planning another road+tracks tour there this summer.

any hints on location?

Think it was on the one ridable route to Tyncornel hostel. It is the other side from the hostel to Soar-y-Mynydd Chapel that is destroyed and hike a bike. Will dm our rides.

Anyone got any routes for Crete? Particularly in the area between Rethymno and the south coast

Got one of these for sale

Will come with 2 blackburn anything cages and a FM to PM adapter

hit me up.

Sorry for hijacking but would also be interested for all gravel/non-gravel tips for Crete esp around Chania.

Moving to live further away from the good gravel next week so stitched together a route of some trails and quiet dirt roads with some brewery stops last weekend, excellent day out.

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