Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

hey hey hey
if you look closely it says ‘gravel’ on it

I've been using Scribe 365 on my cross/gravel bike for a few years, they've survived a few winters and my love of jumping things/casing bunnyhops. For context, I'm 6'3" and about 78kg.

Not the lightest wheels I've ever owned but they do so seem to be bombproof. Plus, from memory they were about £360, so budget friendly.

The risk of OTB the minute you ride down anything even slightly techy must be high. But as you say, maybe I'm just envious of people with the core strength to ride setups like this. It certainly looks cool.

Oh yeah!

Guess Carbonda will write whatever you ask them to.

Lol

Late november, time for gearing, no?

I am trying to plan my next bike. Will be sort of gravel/audax/ultra do it all much like my last one. Ie clearance for 50mm fenders or tyres depending on surface and time of year. I am considering going electronic and 1x anyhow and leaning towards sram now because no cables and a pretty good deal.

Ive never had either electronic or 1x (on this kind of bike) what are your experiences with sram rival and force axs /axs xplr?

Late november, time for gearing, no?

I believe that's in the calendar for December. Few more days of road bike Vs gravel bike tyre clearance yet plus the rescheduled aggro geo chat that we didn't fit in during August. BN can share the Calendar if you don't have a copy

squeeze it in before SFAB talk from January to May

SFAB...January to May

Ahh, I see we've got an optimist over here

AXS stuff works great, gearing is good but I'd rather have the MTB derailleur with a big cassette to allow for a bigger chainring and still having a really low gear for loaded gravel climbs etc.

If you're planning for 50mm tyres, then 1x is a no brainer. I'm happy with XPLR for 90% of my riding. The only time XPLR is limiting is if you're riding in a group, sometimes the gaps in the gearing can mean you have to hold a slightly awkward cadence. Eagle with a MTB derailleur will great if you're Ultras with really challenging terrain.

Thanks, some retailers sell mullet set-ups… not sure if its for me. The mtb derailleurs work just as good with a smaller cassette?

My biggest gripe is that i think the force stuff looks a bit shit with oil-slick stickers..

They don't sell Eagle cassettes smaller than 50. Or bigger XPLR than 44. You need AXS chain, cassette and derailleur, same for Eagle so it's not really possible to be swapping just cassettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3c8smCp6-s

if this is posted as a satire of some kind, I will be blocking you

ah the good old grouch doublethink of
gravel bikes are just 90s mountain bikes and they suck
then
things were better when we rode rigid steel mountain bikes in the 90s

same problem as grant peterson
just cant stick to a story.

having to release your ftp before posting should be mandatory

Was that Rouleur Live?

PVD first thing on a Monday?

Time to shut down the thread again

There is only one PVD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--3eIRSg2RY

@snoops full video is up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xkCxf9CguM&ab_channel=PeterVerdone

This is the most recent one. I’ll consume both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRHdU3jeB_s

Worst gravel content ever

We dOn’t WAnt nO exPERts.

I am goin to start renting auditoriums and do fake seminars and post them to my youtube channel!

I’ll watch anything