Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

But then you have to ride on a hub gear.

Double win!

I'm going gravelfoyle this weekend 🙌🏻 best thing about riding up there is the pie shop in aberfoyle. I'll be deploying my three pie strategy again (start/middle/end don't pie shame me bro)

Was up Gravelfoyle area today. Not the blue skies and blazing sunshine it usually is....

The pie shop is amazing innit, ive vowed to work through all the offerings. Top tiffin n all.

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99% done, just waiting on the 142 hub adapters, 135 vs 142 weren’t listed clearly so ended up with 135 by my error. Hoping to have the 142 arrive tomorrow in time for some post work trails on Thursday.

Had a quick sit on it and position feels great, could do with a longer seatpost though.

Anyone got a long black layback Thomson 27.2 they want to sell?

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Ultegra long cage can only go up to 34t cassettes IIRC

R8000 derailleur go up to 11-40 with a compact (your frames may vary).

It will even do 11-42 if you avoid running small-small

Broken Record: "Shimano is very conservative with their maximum cassette sizes. hippy, the fucking man, the myth, the legend has happily run a 42T MTB cassette on his Mason with 34/46 chainrings... " roll end credits

EDIT: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/273395/?offset=16875#comment15831142

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Is the a good guide to various routes in Gravelfoyle or should I just use the OS maps and go exploring?

Got a 330mm layback masterpiece, or is that too short?

11-40 with a compact

I'm struggling to find a scenario where such a pairing makes sense.

the duke's weekender route is a good starting point. I assume they'll have routes up on this website at some point too: https://www.gravelfoyle.com/

I use my basic general knowledge of the area and Komoot.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/282606804?ref=atd

Does this link work? There will be plenty of routes on there.

Length wise it would do but not sure I’ve got masterpiece budget, wanna slide into my DMZ with a price ?

When you want to run a 53-39 up front like a big man, but you're also afraid of hills

Alright Pantani, not all of us have a fridge full of blood bags to get us up mountains.

It says "with" a Compact. Or am I properly going blind now?

You have a 46 up front, not a 50.
What I mean is if you need a 34 x 42 (silly distance or elevation, loaded bike, combination of both, do you really need a 50 x 11?

EDIT: and a 46-30 with an 11-36 would have the same lower gear, with a less gappy cassette.

Alright Pantani

I'm bald but my ears aren't that bad.

if you wear this I will block you

I have better/worse:

Ok, that makes more sense. I did run something similar at RaTN. The higher gears for tailwinds, flats but leaving some big, easy gears in place for the bergs and fatigue.

Remember that most people don't want/need shit like 11T (especially on a 11-42T cassette) but how many people are going to fuck around building a custom cassette? I've done that too with a 36T back half combined with the smaller gears off Shimano's expensive 28-14T cassette.

They need to make a 42-15T cassette or similar.

LOL

thats fine .. around neck

It's like having the worst of 1x and 2x drivetrains all melted together