Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

My genuine VCLS is way more compliant than the fake one I had before. The genuine one has setback though which probably accounts for 80% of the difference in compliance :)

Srs tho, I feel the particular layup is très important for a seat post. I expect the Chinese copy's layup is just whatever suited them

hmm I was actually thinking of getting the straight version. Thanks for the your feedback!

Been looking for a budget all-road set up and came across this - garish but interesting with 650b

https://www.flickr.com/photos/25373440@N00/sets/72157656526209401

the saddle is smp composit which I stripped as this is the bike I use in regular pants/jeans and the lettering/stitching was ruining all my pants

the seatpost is ebay vcls. still ok after 3 years of daily use :-)

oval rings I do like

brakes are juin tech r1's which are cable actuated hydros

thanks!!!

I have the canyon vcls 2 and when I was suffering from sciatica it was amazing. Bumps in the road that caused me agony disappeared. I still use it on the commuto x bike as the frame is really stiff and it just makes life comfortable. Also the way it moves and flexes does not fuck with saddle height or pedalling efficiency.

It is, am assuming for shouldering the bike?

11sp campy levers and 9sp RD and cassette ?

Anyone know anything about this? Is it a disc conversion, a respray of something else? Only page I can find is in Japanese

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It's a blue and white bike. With Panasonic logos and an apidura frame bag.

It has a saddle and bars and wheels too.

You can buy them as a frameset from Panasonic

panasonic still makes custom framesets as far as I know.

It's black and gold bro

How does one go about this? Asking for a friend

http://tracksupermarket.com/frames/road-frames/new-custom-order.html

Spendy then. Not to worry

Asking for a friend

sure

He's pretty keen to get more Instagram likes. So I've been told.

Is he called amey?

No, he's called PhilDAS

https://alexscycle.com

This one sells the Panasonic bikes and ships worldwide. I was so desperate in search for one (so my sprayer had an example for respraying my PR6000), I almost ordered one... Spendy indeed.

I do like those cutthroats.....and in gulf colours too

Nice looking bike.

Was almost set on getting the new Diverge, but can't help but be put off by the fact that £2,600 gets you 105 when other bikes come much better specced for the price. I don't know if that price premium gets me a far better frameset, with the whole future shock thing that I find interesting. Probably back to the drawing board in terms of figuring out what to get.