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I also hate my OR Helium bivy but I also use it all the time. Clamminess of it is terrible, but it works for a niche where I'm touring mainly on roads, and usually stop not far from it, unplannedly, when I'm too tired, or for shorter naps. I can't pitch anything on a gravely bit next to the road or in a bus shelter.

So it's actually great when there's some minimal overhead cover like a bus shelter, but works ok-ish in rain without extra cover.

In clear weather, I keep it open, and if there's enough rain to wake me up during the night, either zip up or cover my head with the flap. If it's raining when I go to bed, it sucks, but works, at least in the summer. I always leave a face-sized gap in the zip open and put my face near the opening.

Also great for overnighters where I'm not worrying about too much aboutkeeping stuff dry.

I've been thinking about making my pink unit into a dinglespeed lately, this isn't helping

This is a banger.

28 mudguards will do, but in case you've got something 27.5 specific, great. Not a big budget so would probably prefer sks.

Also this is a really nice weight, I wouldn't be surprised my fixed bike weighed more

Yeah I also started using 26 tubes, works super well. Sjs had some discounted ones that are super lightweight, fwiw.
@Tijs do you mean during the ride, in shops, because that wouldn't surprise me much, or in an online/lbs? The latter would be weird but probably due to everyone going tubeless, not 650b dying. I sincerely hope.

:(( I don't want to live in a world where I can't outsource my personality to my wheel/tyre choice

Nah, just a month or two ago.

I had a friend post 5 of these as a gift, shipping was £20. Kinda worth it given how there's no affordable slick 650b 42s in the uk for some reason.

Nice, I'd like it!

I respect ultras a lot, but I'm not sure if it'd be worth the faff for me. Back when I wanted to get into them, it was for ego reasons, and I've since lost the ambition. I'm pretty slow and uncompetititve, but like to stay on the bike all day, so audaxes are a nice sweet spot for me. That said, I've not had as much fun on audaxes in the UK compared to Croatia, where I'm from. People tend to be a bit more grim and serious about it here.

I love touring because it gives me a feeling of perpetuity and freedom. I like audaxes because it's a fun game for adults. Both yield good stories. The whole thing of eating on the bike, drinking too much coffee, riding in the dark until you're sleepy, and sleeping in bus shelters really does something for me.

I don't like the self-imposed pressure of doing more miles in a day, being fit, or riding through dodgy weather, etc. (although I do all of that when I tour). Not saying it's all about pleasure and having fun -- it'd be a waste of bike to only ride it when it's pleasant -- but the feeling of removedness and moving through the world is really beautiful, so I'm game for whatever gives me that.

idk sounds like you got solutions

Prolly gonna be a bargain even for just the handful of parts

Anything that'll fit a tube and a 15 spanner and all the rest, hopefully also look nice

Can I bump this? Some pms but not sorted yet.

Is there a reason why these are built that tall, other than aesthetics?

Weird way to spell 27.5

Thorn?

What you're actually doing is putting yourself in an opportune position to compare two functionally similar bikes of different lineage. Imagine the smug satisfaction you'll feel when you enter a thread on disc/rim brakes with that 'of the two of my bikes that are for all intents and purposes equivalent, I prefer the...', commanding authority and experience the rest of us withot enough shed space to double up on bikes with the same function...

It's not about feeling the difference, it's about knowing that there might be a difference.

Super nice bike. Jealous of the mudguard fit, I'm struggling a bit with mine.

£££ tho...

I'm ordering 5 or so of the OEM gravelkings to a friend in Europe that'll ship it over as a goft, hopefully we get away with it.

Everyone on here loves them.

Ditto. I'll have to suck up the retail price seems like. Thanks

Edit: will I pay mad tax for this?
https://www.bike-components.de/en/Panaracer/GravelKing-Slick-TLC-27-5-Folding-Tyre-OEM-Packaging-p80293/?o=69410252-black-27-5x1-75-42-584-&delivery_country=GB

Yeah 42 is the biggest it will fit. Everything is 47+ now. Real bummer, I want to be comfy but I also want to be a lil fast. I'm worried going narrower will have the frame sit too low (it's a conversion).

Yo where are all the slick 650b 42s??