Show me your gravelbikes....inspire me.

[Likes2ridefar]

[Miller76]

Originally Posted by j_roe

My rig... definitely a fun bike

Love this!!


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[gngroup]

[xtheendisnearx]

Not gravel specific but can get the job done

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by gngroup

beautiful!

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by AZR3

Thought it'd be fun to try gravel riding with some deep section wheels I typically use for road rides. I put some 40mm WTB Byways on my 56mm LightBicycle wheels, so far no issues with this "Aero Gravel" wheel setup

Do you live in the Bay Area? I saw someone riding one of these last weekend.

[AZR3]

Originally Posted by joosttx

Do you live in the Bay Area? I saw someone riding one of these last weekend.

Negative, I’m in Az but it’s nice to know I have a doppelgänger out there lol

[joemull]

Originally Posted by SlowPokePete

January 18, 2020 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

January 16, 2020 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

SPP

Looking good Pete! OCA way with lots of Ti

[joemull]

Originally Posted by mistermo

Blackborow's also make great possum haulers.

best use of a rack I've seen yet. possum must have been going bonkers

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by SlowPokePete

January 18, 2020 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

January 16, 2020 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

SPP

Love this bike

[Jad]

Originally Posted by xtheendisnearx

Not gravel specific but can get the job done

Ritcheys are hard to beat--thats a nice dirt bike.

[robt57]

Had Carl Strong make this for me 2015. It goes from pannier mode, to winter fender mode, to trail mode with WTB TCS Nano 40s.

It is Columbus Life with a fat MTB OX Plat TT&DT. Frame 4.0 lb, fork 1.6 cut. It is a custom equiv to a 60-1CM I guess with a 588mm top tube. Was quite happy with the weight for a big steel disk bike. Bosses galore, and I have had 2.1 650b MTB on it. Not much room for mud with those though.

This pic on a long day out it has 35mm Hutchinson Overide tubeless I bought strictly to have some clearance with fenders. I have come to like these tire a lot for crud, coarse chipseal, and graded gravel that is not too loose, Pressures commensurate to use. They roll nice pumped up on the MUTTS.

It is Di2 ready, and I have extra Di2 parts for it. But just can't bring myself to take off the orig build 22/32/44 and enough chain and RD cage to take a 36 cassette easily, Especially after taking it to Crater lake with racks and Ortliebs with a rolling weight of 46lb. I only had a 30 cassette then, and was just enough for the load. Plus I was 240lb on that ride. Now 198.

[joosttx]

Pictures of a Scarab gravel bike. It is really awesome bike.

[Clean39T]

Hard to follow Houston

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Had an opportunity to fit some riding in on the front-end of work trip down to CA and instead of renting a road bike in the city (just couldn't bring myself to stuff my Kirk in the EVOC bag I bought), I opted to find a gravel bike on offer out in the foothills. The Tour of Nevada City bike shop had brand new Specialized Diverges on offer for $50/day (vs. $75-100/day most other places) and the RideWGPS options seemed plentiful, so that made it an easy choice. It took just about six-hours from my alarm going off in Portland to being chamois'd up in the Sierra Foothills. The shop confirmed my ride choice had a nice mix of b-roads and gravel, and said it was a good scenic tour of the area. And it was definitely that. It was also way harder than one would expect a 40-ish mile ride to be. Part of that was the brutal wind out there today. Part was the amount of climbing, and how it comes at you - a lot of mid-upper teens kickers, a couple gravel climbs, and nowhere to really get momentum going on rollers. And I guess part was the face that I was riding a bike that was a bit small for me and that weighed a tidy sum...and that had tires/tubes that didn't exactly roll that well. Anyway, I ended up averaging 12 mph for the day and just barely made it back to the shop before closing time. It was an incredibly beautiful day and an awesome experience in every sense of the word. The shop was great too - really nice folks, cool history with the photos and posters hanging around, and an eclectic small-town mix of stuff on offer. Despite the heft of the bike and wheels, it actually performed decently. The latest Tiagra shifts well and the brakes were flawless - I was the first person to ride the bike after it was built, so I tried to bed the rotors in properly as I got underway. I can't say I like the future-shock thing or whatever it is called though. It tending to bob a lot and bottom out. Anyway, it was a grand day out, and I'm really glad I put the effort into doing it. To be honest, I don't love graveling all that much - but I certainly do love country-lanes. And the roads in the foothills here seem to be about the closest thing I could imagine to what it is like in the more rural parts of Spain and France - wide one-lane roads through the country, and generally friendly drivers.. Good stuff. I highly recommend an outing here if you get the chance - and I'll certainly be looking to do more riding up around the Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn, etc. area on future trips - hopefully with my own road bike..















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[doomridesout]

That area around Nevada City is great. Next time go to Foresthill and do the Mosquito Ridge Road climb. It's a long and steady grade climbing about 4500 feet. It has great views and it should all be paved well enough to do on a road bike.