Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Did change the brakes though as the promax ones are shite.

Fitted a customer bike with Junitech R1 and compression-less brake levers truly complete the set-up perfectly.

Carbon PRO PLT 42cm with a bit of flair for the Di2 Crux. #csb

I missed out on an alu set of those on eBay last week. Look nice, and not too flarey

Yeah, should work nicely with the Crux is basically replacing the Tarmac for 'fast carbon roadie' but with 650Bs should be able to do some champagne gravel too when the Stanton/Scott is overkill.

champagne gravel

Is all gravel going to become champagne gravel after the Tour this year?

I still don't have Eurosport so have no idea what's going on in Pro Cycling. Only saw the Giro because some other channel covered it. What's the Tour doing? Turned into a gravel race now has it?

Not tried these, but was a fan of the Pro Discover Gravel that had some flare and flattish/flat-enough tops. Would buy again.

Not gonna shut up anytime soon about how much I like the 3T Aeroghiaia carbon bars. Flat tops, 'straight' hoods, flared and shallow drops...

Stage 9, starting and finishing in Troyes, has about fifteen gravel sectors, going through vineyards I believe.

And stop being a cheapskate, £7 a month gets you all of Eurosport's pro cycling coverage.

This was very painful to watch, very useless content

I used to pay for GCN so it's not like I'm -that- tight. I've just kinda been busy and not watching hours of pro cycling has been a little bit liberating. Much the same way as Twitter going to the dogs has dropped my social media doom scrolling time quite a lot.

I'm currently testing a Three 4G router on Simply (Three) and it seems ok, so the plan is to ditch Virgin and free up £50/month. Then I'll have no TV watching ability, ditch my TV license because I'll never watch live TV and then I can watch the Disco replays when I can be arsed.

I miss when riding "gravel" was all about being underbiked..

CX threads >>>

I was reading the Woods blog on brother in the wild, and wondered if anything is more UK gravel than this photo. Flannel shirts pushing expensive steel bikes with wide tyres through mucky mud, whilst someone fixes a puncture in the background.

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Put a gate in there and it's complete

Is it on 35mm film?

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No gravel in the Quantocks at the weekend.

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lol just kidding, Komoot took us up a literal river.

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Is that through Discovery, or something else? I too stopped watching since GCN+ got shutdown. Pro cycling is as good as test cricket when it comes to putting me to sleep (until the last few kms), but I'm missing not having it on in the background this year, and gutted to have missed Tadej's still Giro.

Yeah, Discovery do it now. There's been some chat about it in the Pro Cycling thread when GCN shut down.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/255686/?offset=48725#comment17308539

I was reading the Woods blog on brother in the wild...

No that's lufguss from a decade ago.

For some reason me and my friend decided to spend our holiday cycling around southern parts of England. London-Oxford-Bath-Salisbury-Winchester-Brighton-London.
We're gonna choose gravel and single track over paved roads, how much SFAB should we expect? Our route is mostly self drawn on Komoot but we found a couple readily available routes around Brighton (south downs way) and some route options from Brighton to London.

Well it just tipped it down in West is Best London so my assumption with anything dirt is that it's gonna be slop and we should all move to California.

Pending your bikes, Winchester to Brighton might be better done along the coast, winch down to Emsworth area, along to Chichester, follow NCN2.

Unless you want the off roads, in which case loaded bikes along SDW will be beautiful, but hard riding.