Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Can confirm the weather did not improve. We had hail, pissing rain and a tiny bit of sunshine. Half my group gave up due to mud-related mechanicals, so many brakes gave up the ghost.

Fair play to anyone who did it on Sunday instead, you had a lovely day for it!

Yeah, tough day to be a brake.

A group of us bailed on the road after Hainault Forest due to brakes being done.

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We (HV) will probably run our Hackney to Whitstable gravel ride in early summer, will let you know once it's organised.

Also, A Day in Hell (first weekend of April) still has a few tickets.

Yeah, mine weren't happy either. I had about 50% braking power by the end. One of my clubmates had to stop by ditching it into a bush at the bottom of that little hill in Hainult Forest. It was good craic though even if I was terrified I had trenchfoot for 3/4 of the ride.

This gravel business sounds awful

This mud business sounds awful

Do you have a route for this you could share?

It's good for your skin

@cjr discovered his front brake was toast at 10pm on Saturday evening so we just did a road ride in the end. Was lovely once it warmed up a bit, road rides are so much chillier!

Assuming that the answer to this is "no"?

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https://www.bikeblogordie.com/2018/10/turn-sram-shifter-into-dropper-post.html

Never done it myself, but some stuff from Singletrack

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/using-shifter-as-dropper-remote-grx/

Absolutely

Long version: https://www.strava.com/routes/3197151296270028654

Shorter version: https://www.strava.com/routes/3197673796204896654

It's a nice route when the weather is less shit.

Thanks! Although I mean the one to whitstable :)

Oh, yes, I should have it somewhere. Let me figure out which app it's saved in.

https://www.strava.com/routes/2939133904107176718 here we go. From memory, it's a bit 'roady' at the end but it's mostly a lovely route. Definitely one for dryer conditions though, I remember some farmer's fields when you get into Kent proper.

What shifter is it?

I believe it's an older SRAM Force mechanical/hydro unit - stock on the 1x Slate.

It's child's play on the SRAM non-hydro levers. I have not tried on hydro but it looks to be mostly the same process: https://jeffsbike.blogspot.com/2020/05/curing-1x-sram-1x-to-2x-shifting.html?m=1

If the bike you're referring to is this one, then it looks it doesn't have a left shifter paddle so you'd have to source that somewhere

If the bike you're referring to is this one, then it looks it doesn't have a left shifter paddle so you'd have to source that somewhere

Ah, in this case, you may as well just buy Sram's one.
https://www.bike24.com/p2387444.html

Double post.

The drop bar levers on the market are actually pretty nice nowadays, you can use them from the hood or drops. I think you can get ones from fox, Easton, enve, pro, wolf tooth and probably more

https://www.biketart.com/products/pro-discover-dropper-seatpost-dropbar-lever?variant=42485105262771

Spot the problem?

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Ah, good spot. Also: bugger.

I admit, that's probably a good idea, but now that I know I can have a really tidy installation that's what I'd like to do.