Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

The iPad mini makes it for me.

Valve caps tip it over to anti.

It can do some pretty funky stuff

So you can compete in the bunch sprint with fully loaded bike packing gear after winching up the final - presumably vertical - climb?

I see.

From the team who brought you 2×12 (36/26T & 10-45T)

I do not think they understand the purpose of wide range stuff

(would ride 46/30 11-42 though)

Pretty sure that’s a rotor groupset which makes that bike even more remarkable

Nope, just the crankset.

Whuuuttt!!!

yeah its GRX Di2

What's that contraption at the back - a carbon fibre rack?

https://www.tailfin.cc/

@HoKe has one

or at least he should

Do you have any info or knowledge of using GRX?

nope, @cake is going full GRX soon

What do you want to know?

It’s a version 1 product. Is it the real deal? Is it just the same as road Di2 with a bit of styling? I see the gear range so suspect it is not. Is the hydraulic reservoir well integrated into the lever? And does the different shape around the top of the lever improve the grip? That sort of thing.

On my Brompton?

I’m guessing those are nitrous oxides canisters. It’s a bike for the huffing cyclist

Don't all the tubeless crew carry Co2 to seat tyres?

Michael Wacker carries one of those on ultras and having just had to fck around during TransIb with a tiny pump, I'm probably going to buy one. They're only 50g or so heavier than Lezyne's minipumps and actually get decent pressure before they overheat and blow o-rings.

My stock Ultegra setup does that too. nyer nyer :P

I felt the shame when @Howard took the p out of the pump as Ive had one on my touring/gravelle bike for years. Its actually very good and many people have borrowed it rather than using their lil' dinky pumps.

Sure they look big and bulky but everyone wants to use one when it's crunch time. My superlight Lezyne worked but I'd have to inflate the tyres in two goes, riding underpressured for a while, in between. This works when you're mostly on the road but now imagine the tyre volume is doubled and I'm riding 90% gravel. I put a Mini Floor Drive (or whatever they're called) on my shopping list as soon as I got back from Transiberica.

My exact note in my todo list:
"Pump, bigger with pressure (https://www.wiggle.co.uk/lezyne-micro-floor-drive-hp-abs-pump/)"

I've now got a set of 650B 'gravel' wheels that will go on the new Tripster which will change between being my turbo bike and my gravel bike. I know nothing of tubeless and gravel tyres though so this will be 'interesting'. Like, how do you change tyres without hosing everything in sealant?

Carefully.

That's me fucked then, isn't it?

Pretty much.