Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Can I remind you that "gravel riding" was invented by the Rough Stuff Fellowship in 1957.
They all road with mudguards then and many still do now.

wasn't the early Tour de France mostly gravel?

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We need to discuss sleeveless jumpers and their importance to gravel riding.

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And they didn't have mudguards - checkmate RSF.

Mountain stages were often gravel roads till the mid 50s...

Some still are!

I know it is Giro not Tour.

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Are you okay, Phil?

I haven't spoken to a real person in about a week

please.

gilet

dont want to look but cant stop

Top: Hnnnngghhh

you can't knit a gilet...

Wool is more compliant.

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A reminder: Gravel in the US is basically roadbiking on hardpack dirt roads, hence 35mm >tyres. We don't have that in the UK so people try and ride stuff that would be more fun on a >normal MTB on stupid contraptions with huge tyres and massive drop bars. You end up on >the road to get between the bits worth riding and guess what, it sucks for that too.

Mudguards don't have a place on any of that.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Rapha Gravé school, and I've been involved in numerous secret rides on Strava, and I have over 300 confirmed KOMs. I am trained in 650b conversions and I'm the top rider on Zwift. You are nothing to me but just another nodder. I will wipe you the fuck out with watts the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of IG influencers and artisanal frame builders across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can drop you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my unicycle. Not only am I extensively trained in whip skidding, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the LFGSS Gravel thread and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo