Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

I was running 28's at around 60psi in Crete and had no issues in the gravel (with the pressure at least, I would have liked some 38's)

Bingo, 38mm was just about idea for on and off road.

screams into pillow

It's made me wonder about rolling resistance and how it changes with tyre size (if it does- I'm making an assumption)

All else being equal, wider tyres have less rolling resistance

and whether bigger tyres are simply a better choice (if we ignore frontal area)

They are, but you can't go on ignoring frontal area forever, otherwise Paris-Roubaix would be contested on fatbikes.

I paid for mine in February is that's any help

A 4" Veloflex Record would be quite interesting to ride

Resite the race to alpes maritimes Maginot line problem solved.

I have a flat mount caliper which you could have?

I'm back in the UK tomorrow btw.

nah, keen to use this caliper. I'll add the mount to an order of whatever else I've forgotten over the weekend. ta though.

Well priced, brand new, handbuilt 650 disc / tubeless wheels, yo

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/293305/#comment13254789

What's not to like?

That Mason is perfection. Would

What's not to like?

cant take road cassette :(

Road cassettes are so 2015

are these enve forks?

hope not because I wouldnt trust any aftermarket carbon customizing solutions

we've all seen what happens in the corresponding cp threads

God that looks wank

Planet X Tempest looks intriguing
http://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/bikes/gravel-adventure-bikes/tempest

Anyone try one out yet?

I know nothing about thru axles and that kind of stuff, but looking at that frameset, is thru axles (with flat mounts if I understand correctly?) combined with vertical dropouts (with post mounts, again if I understand this? Unless this has no justification for rear brake?) a bit of a weird thing / likely to mess groupset consistency?
Nice bike otherwise, frameset seems well priced...

I know nothing about through-axles and discs I confess. I mainly liked it because it's Ti and has more road-bike geo with space for reasonable large volume tyres - it's bang in the middle of the two Kinesis bikes I couldn't choose between. And quite a bit cheaper...

I see post mounts, Thru axle front, QR rear. Pretty standard stuff

May be standard, i don't get it...

The rear is not post mount but yeah its nothing special.

The rear is IS mount, no?

Unless this has no justification for rear brake?

Through axle is not necessary on the rear, due to the different angle between the brake reaction and the wheel removal vectors. On the front, through axle is necessary because disc brakes tend to eject the wheel.

CAAD12 has mismatch front and rear standard, flat mount rear, post mount front.