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"gravel bike" on the cheap
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Works great.
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No disc brakes? You can't ride those bikes on gravel.
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Touring bikes make great gravel bikes. A big plus with them is the ability to fit wide rubber and have lower gearing and the clearance of cantilever brakes. A bit heavy though.
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My first gravel build was a Trek 400, next was a Nishiki. Just built a Nishiki Sport this winter from a $35 frame and a Nashbar CX fork. One of the bikes I've ridden most on gravel is a Cannondale T400 touring from around 1986.
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My gravel bike is whatever road bike I happen to be riding in the gravel. Sometimes it’s my cross bike.
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My gravel bike is an '85 Raleigh Portage. Factory 650b (before it was "hip"), canti's and big rubber.
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Yeah, this is the rabbit hole I'm currently chasing down...
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You forgot thru-axles, tapered fork, only 1 chainring, ginormous tires..without those it's illegal to ride that bike on a dirt road..
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it's almost comical what a statement of the obvious that article is.
you can ride bikes on unpaved roads that were not specifically designed and marketed to do so?? amazing!
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Heavy absorbs shock.
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Otoh the article saves old bikes and keeps the hype shopping away. I like the new gravel bikes: they are close to the original all terrain bikes.
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I rode gravel on my cross bike with 35's for two years before getting a "real" gravel bike. Tubeless would have been nice on the cross bike.
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i think alot of us get tunnel vision / new bike lust and forget this
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I rode my '83 Sequoia converted to 650B on the Lost and Found for 100 miles in 2015 and it was was amazing. I stupidly sold it.
Lost and Found Bike Race by zacquillestanli, on Flickr |
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