How good? Super. I have been baking our own bread for about 35 years. Now the boys have left home just one day per week. But a great day indeed. Yvonne has even been know to schedule a "work from home day" on baking day!
Oh but it can be...a lot of oil goes into bread and butter spreads over it. Should we get together for a bake Off? Bread...scones...cup cakes...Brownies?
Well, they need something to do seeing they completely ignore MTB.
Don’t be bitter, old man.
Are they on hard tails with drop bars?
Exactly. This man gets it!
NO! You have to buy a very specific bike to ride on gravel.
It's "off-road" for roadies. Ironically, they're still riding roads, just unsealed ones....
Worst of both worlds.
Try riding beside railway tracks, gravel is wonderful after ballast.
Ever considered a bike trip to wa?
You are not alone, gravel is fucked.
Try riding along train tracks...rocks and sleepers = horrific. There used to be a bunch of abandoned train line around here to ride on. So much yuck.
I’ve just flung them a pissed off email. MTB didn’t rate a mention at all in the monthly newsletter. Not even the Oceania champs from 2 weeks ago.
I understand gravel as an alternative to MTB if you don’t have access to trails, and an alternative to road…in that roads are an evil place to ride.Gravel is just a joyless slog on a road bike, at least in the parts of the world I've ridden. In Germany/Austria I did a lot of long backcountry trips in the alps etc., and many of the marked "cycle ways" are gravelled rather than paved. It's slow, you can't corner too hard, rocks ping off your frame all the time, and there's usually neither steep ups or downs since the gravel would shift if there were. So it is a constant source of wonder to me that gravel bikes remain a thing. I can sort of see the point if you live in the country with a mix of graded dirt roads and tarmac on a daily basis, but I've never had too many problems riding a normal road bike on those either.
Anyway, this is the LTIL thread, so I'll shut up now
