Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

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Re the current vibe. Worth watching this through to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPl0uJZwOk

Thread went sour.

Rene Herse make good tires. So do lots of other folks.

Steel is just fine. So is paint.

Rim brakes are dead.

That video is fantastic

Come on Paul

Ambient Cyclo Cross. Lovely and calming.

Must be summer cross, looks like a nice August weather

Must be summer cross, looks like a nice August weather

That's Bikini weather in Notts

Morning all!

riding one on single track

For me, that would be "walking one on single track" which is why I'll stick with the fattest tyred disc braked monster I can find.

But since we're doing shitty 'cross bikes, here's mine after it got its Vee front brake and before it got the knobbies reinstalled... used mostly for tile bagging these days in London's Shitty London

The Tektros are a legal requirement. They don't stop hippy.

Those hoods are so fucking uncomfortable. installs Di2

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Look what you made me do. Look at what this thread has become. Like it needs its own category on pornhub it's so filthy.

this is worse than Cadel pics

Needs a trigger warning

Cadel likes some grav grav

You lot made me do it.

Now, can we please get back to Di2, disc brakes, fat tyres, suspension posts, dropper posts, skinsuits and aerobars aka the Sprit of Gravle.

mods?!?! MODS!!!!? the quiet rodies are posting bikes that have too small tyres and im scared, can you ban them

That front tyre is a Marathon Supreme 700x40. Nom nom nom.

It has Vittoria Terreno WET TLR Graphene 2.0 33mm on it now (because I'm a secret CX fetishist) but I'm still too scared to set them up ghetto tubeless.

There's more of gravy than of grav about that photo.

Suits the UK Grav(y)el scene

Those hoods are so fucking uncomfortable.

Especially on bars like those. They can be made to feel more okay-er on modern compact drops, but we've certainly come a long way as far as "on the hoods" comfort goes.

That's a very German cyclist dude in questionable lycra focus cx bike.

Good to see not replaced by marketing bikes reality creep in here. Maybe.

Here's what I've been working on. Got the frame from a friend (he's on here somewhere) at an amazing price, and a lot of parts from my bin.

Mixed new and old SRAM AXS Red, Force and Rival. I do have a Shockstop stem that would look too wrong on this, and the Hope RX4 brakes from my other gravel bike had to be dropped as the aero forkflap gets in the way on the front caliper.

Got some new wheels (Hunts 34mm aero alu - not happy with them) with 32c rubber for roads and the pathetic gravel, and obviously I'm looking to max out my gravel tyres on either 650b or 43c on 700c.

I should confess I'm too slow for this bike, especially currently.

Holy batmobile!

I secretly absolutely love these ‘relos