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the tubeless troubles I've had with the current tires has made me kind of dislike them.
What width are the current tyres and what kind of pressure are you running? I found that anything below 30c for road tubeless is pointless, as there isn't enough volume in narrower tyres to run lower pressures, and if you inflate them above 60 psi, they can't hold the pressure and leak air.
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I've also actually been riding the bikes I already have.
Been doing some good distance and climbing on my sensible road bike. I am still really unfit but starting to get better, however I'm also starting to realize that some of this might just be age? I clearly don't recover as quickly as I used to and that's a big part of what's holding me back. I can do big climbs still but only like once in a day and then I just don't have it in me until I get some time off the bike.
Doesn’t help that this bike is heavy as fuck when it's loaded up, I weighed it and it was 16kg with everything on it? Made be feel slightly better about being slow.
Also recently have been spending a lot of time riding into very strong headwinds which really really sucks, I hate it! I've been able to a decent amount of gravel-ish sections on recent rides tho which is fun and proves this bike can handle everything I want it to.
I'm probably going to try the new gravelkings as they look really promising and all the tubeless troubles I've had with the current tires has made me kind of dislike them.