Gravel is as old as cycling! —Rene Herse content
There’s a beautifully written article with loads of storytelling pics over on rene herse—tying together the history of riding bikes on dirt roads, including a key insight (to me, anyhoo) on the marketing imperative of flat bars in the ‘80s (when I bought my first mtb). Gravel Hall of Fame, anyone?
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You're right. Beautifully written with a very big side serving of 'I told you so.'
"At the time, we felt we were rediscovering something beautiful rather than inventing something new." |
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And not one mention of Salsa. Whatever. I still want a full steel “gravel” bike and no helmet. YOLO
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I couldn’t read past the first line…gravel seems like a marketing term developed to sell more bikes and a hall of fame seems like a way to legitimize what essentially amounts to a money grab to convince people they need a new or different bike because of a “label” that has been attached to a type of riding everyone already does. I ride 25c tires without disc brakes on gravel all the time…maybe if I were fully invested in a brand that manufacturers and sells product for that type of riding, I would care about that hall of fame too!
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Some photos were just posted on the CR in memory of the late Peter Johnson. Here he is riding with Jobst Brandt in 1987.
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You don't need a special bike to ride gravel. You don't need special shoes or 40mm tires to ride gravel. You don't need to pay $450 race entry fees to race gravel. Any bike is a gravel bike if you'll set it free. |
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