Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Uxbridge Road. All of it. I will deviate from my line to win.

triple? that's nothing

Yes you can, jump 8 gears at once, shift gears stopped, it's almost where it comes into its own. It's a bit agricultural compared to nice, neat top-end Shimano, but it's liberating to be able to not care about transmission — as long as you do a micro lift on downshifts (it trained me to treat my derailleur much better tbh)

Wait.. what?!

Like most bike shit... one day I'll be on ebay at just the wrong/right time and I'll end up with one to try out. Until that point, RDs are my friends. At least 90% of my time is spent with Di2 so I don't have to piss about with indexing so much.

Double granny... very good! There's a first time for everything

We have the same in our workshop, wrote bikr off as modern derailleur doesn’t allow rnough movement, crank is extremely heavy and it paired with a tiny freewheel, at that time people doesn’t think you could get more than 6 speed, especially since freewheel are a dead end technology.

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I was way ahead of this big cassette trend...

Before I was a teen I used to buy bike parts from garage sales around the district and remember swapping a 6s freewheel onto a 5s freewheel body. Of course, because I didn't have any of the correct tools, I just hammered the lockring off and dumped 45,000 tiny freewheel bearings all over the old man's shed floor. Oh how I laughed. It fucking worked though and I rode that bike for another 10 years and only sold it when I left for the UK. #csb

It's been far too long since a hideous drop bar bike was posted in here

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The image is called frankenbike. At least they're self aware.

What forks are they? Combined with the Cobl Goblr post I reckon I could make the Tripster fuglier...

What forks are they?

Trust. Sadly no more

https://gearjunkie.com/news/trust-performance-bicycle-fork-out-of-business-coronavirus

most offensive part of this is the enve stem

Live. Laugh. Lauf.

No question that 46 is enough. Heck, 42 is enough almost all the time up front. I'm currently enjoying the "either all the gears or just one" life, having essentially given up on "1x" drivetrains on my Rove, and installed an anachronistic XT 735 group with bar end shifters.

That chain is slack AF.

janny h voice the chain slack allows it to "spring" the energy back into forward momentum, propelling itself round the chain set, not watts are lost. modern design ethos's for "stiff chains" is industry nonsense

So is the crank install by the looks of things

Looks hawt tho

I'm going back to skware tapah just so I can run fuckoffweird crankz

My post was all positive, slack AF FTW is what I've always said.

what happened to the project 'on here' where someone was trying to build a bike with the most amount of gears?
maybe with an internal geared hub and a cassette or something?
was that real, or was it just a dream?

some brompton people are very hot for this idea.

2 spd up front, 3 speed and a sturmey hub.

Not sure how many that even is....

Wait till the G-Line come out.

Sheldon Brown (of course) had a 63 gear bike - triple up front with a 7 speed freewheel mounted on a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub. And it has aerobars and 3 brake levers...

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/otb.html?utm_content=cmp-true

I'll just leave this 1x 15speed monstrosity here.

https://www.picuki.com/media/3092690007327894861

All those gears are truly making this monster gravel versatile, behaving like a road bike on the road, yet, capable to climb anything too steep!

I hate him already.