Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

White gloves, white socks, white cables, silver spokes. RAD

Yeah not exactly. The headset itself is fairly standard albeit a bigger diameter top bearing and the preload is not set by the top cap.
But it's a little cartridge that fits into a proprietary fork steerer.

I'm comfortable with my A.T.E.G Uniqlo alternative cords.

https://theservicecourse.cc/ateg

ive always thought about this.

Reason I ask is that I have all the gubbins in the parts box and fancy retro fitting it to something else in the future. Don't often see the forks for sale though

I know it's not really gravë related, this thread is active, a rather non bike savvy friend was about to drop £700 on a BLB 3sp for London commuting, so I told him I'd find something better, for cheaper, any thoughts? Solid but not a tank, doesn't need to be overkill, A to B, quality parts, cheap with some style and fun on the way.

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That's alot of scrolling, where's the pdf (and information about price)?

£165 hip pack: sold out

Genesis CDA 10 for £750 is decent.

No, to be fair I didn’t elaborate; with modern bicycles now running a 1 by transmission, it’s too easy to just plop the chain on without realising it could be a little too slack (even thought it held tension and it’s not rubbing on the derailleur.

Big to big plus one full link for everything, even 1x, that's just a big by itself, unless it's mega sized cassette MTB stuff that needs an extra link or full boing which may need another on top of that.

I always find the one plus or two plus with SRAM 1x is very tight for comfort. I'd rather chop long and remove a link if there's an issue.
Bonus points I can swap wheelsets from 36t to 46t and only takes moving the B-screw, same chain.

I thought 1x means plus 4 links? Edit: Which I guess you call 2 (full) links? Never mind then.

Speaking of narrower tyres just cutting through the mud.

For London commuting? A town bike? Or if they’re a cyclist then a Dolan FXE or one of these winter road bikes with Claris.

Anything else is pretentious overbikery.

Want

pretentious overbikery.

waves

Hey, I was only riding the race bike because I was racing after work :P

Choose your routes. If you REALLLLLY want to geek it, use this tool to head to areas with sands and gravels rather than clays, silts and mudstones
https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbrita­in/home.html

thats pretty useful thanks

Do you guys use https://www.trailforks.com/ much to find routes?

I found RWGPS heatmap a key feature for finding new trails, some of which are not even on the OSM maps, but people with local knowledge ride. Unfortunately people abroad seem to not use RWPGS so much, so I resource to Strava Heatmap to find if a trail is rideable or not.

RWGPS is a lot easier as you can turn it on/off as an additional layer when planning the route.

Not a bad shout. I'm normally stealing other people's routes anyway and then modifying them to check out other roads or trails I may have seen. I've not really used the heatmap for anything useful yet but I'll have a look. I got an email this morning about them revamping everything so let's see what that gives us.

There's also stuff like: https://www.wikiloc.com/mountain-biking-trails/route-21-greenwich-to-eastbourne-24423551 but each country does seem to favour its own app/apps which is annoying. Would be great if everyone threw their time and effort into one centralised 'fully sick' option but that ain't likely.

I like OSM maps for its user-editable wiki feel. It's nice to know I can improve routing for other people (and myself since I forget everything anyway)

I got an email this morning about them revamping everything so let's see what that gives us.

I think it's just the app home page