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my commute is 2km a day so i am basically not riding, but i will my flatbar setup from my genesis cdf ( early generation that i built for tag-along pulling last summer ), to an arkose for this coming summer. the arkose has quite slack forks, i might try and find something with less rake and a-c to make the geo more sporty.
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I'm getting more unhealthy thoughts about moving my road bike on and going for something gravel-y instead. I think I've ridden the road bike properly once so far this year. I'm so busy that I rarely have time to get out on a bike at all at the weekend and the last few times I've had the chance, I've gone for a pootle on my mountain bike for a couple of hours.
The vast majority of my riding is commuting (currently 30km a day, soon to increase to 40km a day). I much prefer my upright, fat tyred Genesis Day One fixed gear for that. I'm thinking that a geared version of the same thing might get more use than a road bike for commuting during the week and pissing about on bridleways at the weekend. I had a Cotic a couple of years ago that was basically the same thing I'm describing but it was really heavy and slow so I didn't enjoy it all that much. Is it possible to build a flat bar gravel thing with big tyres, mudguards (would take off for any actual gravel) etc that'll actually be fast and fun on and off road or am I deluded? Cotic below for reference.