Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

42T or even 46T on the back will probably work with long cage RD or Wolf Tooth *link.

30 is already low on the front. What would a MTB double achieve? 28? 26 max?
I would go bigger on the rear if the derailleur can handle it

Or else HTFU

repling to @Josh / @hippy
Finished building this up yesterday, not SS tho (and not mine).

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Is that an aero seatclamp?

Super cute - I'm in.

This is much more pleasing to the eye.

If it's a GRX rear derailleur it'll probably do 11-40 or 42. I have this and it's great if you're doing 10km climbs with full camping gear.

Is that an aero seatclamp?

My bad, I'll set it right for the owner... but speaking of aero(?), I don't know what they were thinking but never want to see one of these brakes ever again..

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Yeah, seems like a sensible place to keep something that relies on friction to work away from mud/grime contamination.

The rear gear cable through the brake mount stud is also cleverly unnecessary

Have DA ones on my partner's old carbon road bike and I don't think I've ever bothered to adjust them. Stupid idea for anything but TT bikes.

Chainstay mounted U-brakes were a fashion for about 10 minutes in 1988. Only benefit is that chainstays are more beefy, so you get slightly less flex when hauling on the anchors.

Apart from being showered in SFAB on every ride, the other massive disadvantage is that with semi-horizontal dropouts as on most bikes of the era it was super-easy to misalign the wheel and have the brake blocks rip through your sidewalls within minutes.

Chainstay mounted U-brakes were a fashion for about 10 minutes in 1988.

Please, there's enough roadie nonsense in here already, without actual road bikes

Erm, the bike that one the most famous gravel race in the world?

It's a Scott, no one cares.

Cobbles aren't gravel. Cobbles aren't even cobbles, they're setts.

These are the words that haunt the Scott marketing team.

slightly less flex

Which is rendered useless by the shittier calipers used, the shittier cable run, the shitfromabuttier location...

direct mount not U

Yeah, I run 48/31 x 11-40 with GRX 800. Rear derailleur needed the clutch backing off a touch, but it runs well now. With 650B wheels that gets me 21 gear inches. Bikepacking in Scotland, init.

Seen those brakes on high-end road and TT bikes of the mid/late 2010s.

End of my 'road nonsense'.

you lot are all ‘save the rim brake’ and ‘dbad’ right until it gets difficult
fake fans

Brakes are for losers.

Brakeless for life

With a RX812 rear mech they could probably go to an 11-40 or even 11-42