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Sounds like you're after a modern CX bike. They deal with gravel pretty well and are better than a gravel bike on road, especially in the hills. Bottle cages and fat tyre compatibility are pretty standard nowadays. Double chainrings setups aren't uncommon either
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Liz LOVES her giant TCX rides like a roadie with 32mm tyre and bombs the grav grav with the best of them with 700x42mm lumpy tyres or even 650bx47mm lumpier tyres. They are cheap as chips now as well, but that’s only because Liz paid top dorra an age ago. You’d need to add a front mech, if you felt the need, but the mount is there and if you like the SRAMs you can just add a shifter lever to the left hand bifter.
But I’d get a Straggler, because I’m like that.
Chaley
Hope this is the right thread..... I might be a bit too far "roady" maybe??
looking for recommendations for an 75% road, 25% light gravel bike. have tried to dig through previous posts, but there are a lot of them! Aiming for:
approx 35 mm tyre clearance (without mudguards)
clean, simple look ie no vertical "kink" in the seat stays
nice and comfy - doesn't need to be fast
2x groupset
would like to avoid the "big" manufacturers if poss
don't mind buying bits and pieces slowly and building up / mixing and matching
No fixed thoughts on frame material
up to £2k ish, hoping to get something 2nd hand so more expensive (when new) possible
Ribble CGR (probably carbon) seems to come up in this thread a bit and is probably my front runner, and Giant Defy seems to get a lot of love, but probably not gravely enough. For some weird reason I'm not a huge fan of Strael. Can't help feeling there's something more interesting out there though....?
Any thoughts or suggestions gratefully received!
THanks