Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Pretty much the rims you had - cheap carbon on DT Swiss. Much regret right now.

@edscoble not a bad shout - that’ll be my next step I reckon, thanks.

Steel forks but no rack mounts? what's the point of that?

That dude makes some awesome bikes. I've always wondered about his price range.

Coz its a gravel bike and not a tourer?

A fork is for keeping your front wheel in place, even without rack mounts.

@mtsdw I believe around €2000 for a powder-coated frameset.

I wonder how light a steel fork with a disc brake could be? A traditional road fork can be under 700 grams apparently, but with discs probably not much under a kilo?

The point is that a carbon fork would be lighter and more fun especially if you aren't going to be touring on it. Thanks for the hot tip about forks @Jaap I had always wondered about them!

A carbon bike would be lighter

but not necessarily more fun

A steel fork is nicer for those out of the saddle Zwift sprints...

Is that a flat mount or post mount caliper on the front? I've been pondering steel forks and flat mount calipers a lot recently.

I'm fine with mismatched tyres but backwards spoke counts is the devil's work.

Post mount :(

That is an IS-mount on the fork.

Looks like someone has photoshop magnified the crankset. #inthesea

Must be fast though if it's that big!

The cog is also huge. Hub gears?

Yeah di2 alfine or something.

All that thought and effort ruined by a belt drive. The only thing worse than an unnecessary steel fork.

Just needless some tubeless Gravel Kings, for a full house of YAL disapproval

Oh, hang on

The one thing I need to clarify with my GK hate is that I have the smooth version, not ones with the gravé nubbins. I'm sure if you have GK Nubbins they are fine.

Currently my gravel bike is front tubeless, rear tubed. You should see the size of my saddlepack #fellas #ladies #winkwink

When you like Post Mount so much you recreate it whilst implementing Flat Mount at the same time.

Yeah and WTF with that chainring - seems like it's compensating for a huge sprocket but Alfine has loads of smaller sprockets available. WEIRD.

chainrings in 650b