PJO
in me vL comy
I still struggle to get the handlebar centered in the stem.
EDIT: Love that they weighted it and showed it's actual weight. Clearly an important feature.
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EDIT: Love that they weighted it and showed it's actual weight. Clearly an important feature.
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
I’ve worked out how to get this task done.
Try to convince yourself it is crooked one way or the other. If it’s at the position where you think it’s crooked in both directions, it’s good.
Key word appears to be 'ride'.
I have been thinking about an electric motor and drop bars to make it an e gravel fatbike. You know, to maximise the hate.
As you were...
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
I usually just do a half safety squint with my dominant eye and line each forward facing side of the stem up with the fork lowers arch
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Well, there's certainly drop bar fat bikes and electric fat bikes, so combining the two shouldn't be impossible.
I would love to get one just to see the disgust on the face of this guy I know who thinks that gravel bikes are the greatest and MTB is shit (even though he owns one).
Isildur
The Real Pedant
Love it!
I also wonder what your mate will think of MTB in a few years when Gravel is more MTB that Gravel?
i.e. Suspension... Check. 2.1" (or larger) tyres... Check. Boost (road-boost, but still, don't worry, it'll get there)... Check.
Editing to add in, that Curve GMX+ is a tasty tasty bike to be honest. We were along for the ride at the recent Curve Demo Day in Sydney, and I got to ride the GMX for a short little 5 or 6km blast along some firetrail. It was especially interesting given my AliEx Gravel Packer build recently, and the GMX+ was not as hard to handle as I thought it would be, and everything was just that much smoother.
Sure, a Ti vs Alu frame, and 2.6" vs 2.4" tyres, all contributed. And I still love myu recent built for the short seat tube & chain stays. But if I was going to get into really long, rough road bikepacking stuff, the GMX+ would be at the top of my list!
DougalStrachan
Likes Dirt
I usually do this twice tho as the first time inevitably I somehow managed to get it so wrong I nearly crash into a fence doing the 'jump on the bike and bounce up and down on the road' test ride. 2nd time seem to be well within the 'she'll be right' tolerance range.
Don't forget the lefty!
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Yes, it is getting closer to MTB all the time. They run MTB tyres for a lot of races now. They will probably always have drop bars for the aero advantage, but I can see there not being much difference between an XC bike and a capable Gravel bike in the long run.
rowdyflat
chez le médecin
For the kool aiders maybe but its self defeating to turn a gravel bike into a mtbike.
I have several gravel bikes , none have suspension or wider than 42mm tyres, its pointless.
Gravel varies from smooth almost tarmac conditions to rough gravel no bigger than 50 mm.
During a ride we even ride sealed roads.
teK--
Eats Squid
I've recent heard of terms like Gravel+ thrown around, which includes rutted/potholed fireroads and sections of singletrack, where suspension and wider tyres make a lot of sense.
Then you have Champagne Gravel which is is so smooth a road bike could probably ride it.
I find a bike that does both offers the most versatility and winter option when proper MTB trails are too wet.
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
Hear me out....
DH Gravel. Which might just be 42 mm tyres and drop bars on a park bike...but what the hey, aye?
Isildur
The Real Pedant
Ah man. If I still had the old Glory00 frame in the shed, I'd totally build it up with a rigid fork the the drop bars just for the photo.
Thanfully, I sold it a couple of months ago, so I don't have to waste previous time on that!
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
360° still from a recent 50km gravel pub crawl with a shuttle back to Melrose from the last pub.
One on a 47c, mine with 29 x 2.2 and my mate in the middle with 29 x 3" DHF Minions.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
It a custom Waltly, he did a bit of research into it. It may have been based loosely on a fatbike with a few geo adjustments and rack mounts added to make it a fat dropbar bike. Blanked out his name
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
Having watched just today a riding buddy realise that the headshock on his Specialized Roubaix had detached from his fork at roughly 30 km/h... suspension on a gravel bike should be ignored.