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Watch out! Cyclist coming through
- Thread starter k00karacha
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Ok bicycle nerds, was recently feeling up what was like a hybrid road bike with bigger wheels. My mountain biking buddy is currently crying over them which perked my interest even more. Are these gravel bikes? Any recommendations on bikes to check out? How capable are they on/off road?
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Not really. Assume they’re pretty base level but fairly priced. Could be wrong.
Nice Ritchey GS!
Matches the new trail pup
i still have a fillet brazed hand welded by Tom, Ritchey frame around here someplace.
I have seen many 6/9er bikes, but yours may be the first 9/6er, what gives?
(run what ya brung, i had these parts laying around i'm guessing
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Weed is tight.
I’ve had a lot of fun following this dude’s career/watching him progress via YouTube. Really smart guy. Even if was young and super rad, I don’t think I’m smart enough to race at a high level lol. Top Gun on mtbs.
Jesse Melamed
www.youtube.com
In a way, bicycles are similar to surfboards. You can have one bike that does everything mostly ok or you can have many boards, each uniquely built for a set of conditions, and so forth.
To me a hybrid bike is a hardtail MTB crossed with a road bike with flat bars and plump tires.....sort of a commuter bike where you need the heads-up aspect to aid in survivability in traffic over the aerodynamic aspects of a road bike. Chuck on curly bars, and now it is gravel bike (but maybe the geometry isn't great for long hauls), though I am partially joking because I think more goes into it that just handlebars.
Anyway, I think the term 'gravel bike' is a marketing term when really, at least to me, it seems to harken back to the the day when road bikes weren't as focused on speed and aerodynamics like they seem to now. Having a bike that wins time trials on pavement on skinny tires is not conducive to multi-surface conditions or traffic where a little beefier frame, more relaxed geometry (better geometry?), and plumper tires makes for more utility. But we need words to describe things, so, gravel bike it is....though I do like the other marketing term "adventure bike" (in contrast to touring bike).
Recommendations? How much $ you got and how much are you really going to ride?
PS
Not a recommendation, but this small shop in Marin does a decent job at discussing his frames/philosophy. Road + and Monstercross.
