Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

It's surprisingly easy to use too wide a rim, and end up pushing the sidewall out further than the cornering tread, which isn't ideal

Different brands seem to suit different widths too, just to add to the general confusion

Thanks guys . Appreciate the insight . The tyre profile looks ok . Will give them a try:
Cheers
Jerome

The Great Mountains of Epping Forest?

@BareNecessities is right 33mm is a tad too wide for the 2.35" tyres I've got.

Thinking about how funny that micro suspension sram fork is lmao

Imagine servicing it

It’s like all the inconvenience of suspension

For what can be done with a redshift stem

Lmao

Mfs just get a bigger tyre 🤣🤣🤣

Truly wallet inspector tier stuff, unreal

Bike makers got it so easy, they just get a wealthy looking dude in some tonal Lycra, throw a little dry dirt everywhere and say how it feels “rad”

MFn finance workers clambering over themselves to get one for the weekend

Genuinely dire shit

Like where you riding it?????

Off road? Round the park?

Surely anything the travel handles you could do on a robust rigid fork????

What you gaining here other than novelty and a 12 month intrestless piece of credit to your name???

Philosophy of use box just titled “needed something to buy”

Sure people will come up with micro fringe cases, certain terrain

Might even get a “just do it because you can! Innovate!!, live and let live!”

But truly, single state owned bicycle company when

Those people are keeping the bicycle industry afloat so that you can still buy cheap 9 speed

This is why you need to outlaw any speeds above 9 and reduce choice, allowing all research and development of bike tech to be handled by the state, sanctioned and then licensed to firms who produce it to spec

Ensuring we have good, robust equipment which is perfect for the consumer

Anyone regret selling their Arkose? @PhilDAS think you had one?
Tempted to switch out the frameset and pending 2022 colours, getting a brother mehteh.

'benefits'
47c to 2.1" inch tyres
steel is real(?!)
fork with cage mounts
less ugly

dis-benefits
might give more a shit about damaging it

Comrade Heine

Will you put your seal on the adoption of of through axels for the people’s bike?

not in my name comrade, they do not need the marginal rigidity, we already have a license exclusion carved out for those who prove specific competitive use cases and I’d like to tighten it up as it is!

Not really. It was sweet once it was repainted. In neon green pinnacle guise it looked sucky but resprayed with 42c tyres I loved it. That said I replaced it with a steel cross bike that fit the same size tyres but felt faster so no regrets. Although you're going the other way and going for even more off road.
You may miss the lightness as a mehteh with 2.1s is going to feel like a tank.

you're going the other way and going for even more off road.

You may miss the lightness as a mehteh with 2.1s is going to feel like a tank.

hmmm thanks. Have the benefit of swapping wheels but maybe I can swing keeping the arkose on 38c tyres for commuter / touring and go chunky on a gravel specific build.

Just get a hardtail is probably the right answer or stop with the #buying

I will burn down everything you love if you try and take my 10spd brifters from me

I guess the 5700 neck tattoo didn't tip you off eh

8spd was better

1spd was is best

Which one?

53 x 11

If you can't gravel on that, it's time for an e-bike

46x19 or 48x16 or GTFO

Brifters?

The people shift with the down tube, the bar end or the the Paul’s 31.8 sram shifter adapter clamp

Brifters are tools of the bourgeoisie to sew seeds of coveting and tastelessness amongst an otherwise resilient and prosperous society

Do those gear ratios deliver a suitable amount of skid patches to your trusty Gravel Kings?

Want.

250 quid !

£150

Are those gravel-specific though?