Art Vanderlay
Hourly daily
Go all out @Haakon :
Revolt X Advanced Pro 0 (2024) | bike | Giant Bicycles Australia
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Thinking of giving a gravel bike a crackadoodle
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Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Lose the suspension fork and let's talk.Go all out @Haakon :
Revolt X Advanced Pro 0 (2024) | bike | Giant Bicycles Australia
If I was getting a gravel bike I'd go one of these models: https://www.giant-bicycles.com/au/bikes-revolt-advanced-2023
I'm the negative SoB.. I bought a Norco Search XR S1 early last year as I had the gravel bug (peer pressure to buy one) and I really hated riding it on gravel lol.
20 odd years of mountain biking had conditioned me to a comfy, smooth ride, not my fillings getting shaken out of my mouth or the kick back through the hoods on rougher gravel roads. Plus I hated the twitchy handling the short wheelbase bike gives (some love it though).
A few mates went from mtb's to gravel bikes and never looked back, I just couldn't get my body to like it.
I spent quite a few evenings modding it to make it more user friendly (and like a mtb..) but ended up realising I'm just not cut out for drop bars (I'm also big and heavy..) and I sold it (for only a $200 loss which was good).
20 odd years of mountain biking had conditioned me to a comfy, smooth ride, not my fillings getting shaken out of my mouth or the kick back through the hoods on rougher gravel roads. Plus I hated the twitchy handling the short wheelbase bike gives (some love it though).
A few mates went from mtb's to gravel bikes and never looked back, I just couldn't get my body to like it.
I spent quite a few evenings modding it to make it more user friendly (and like a mtb..) but ended up realising I'm just not cut out for drop bars (I'm also big and heavy..) and I sold it (for only a $200 loss which was good).
I'm still yet to do some proper gravel riding on this bike. I've done little bits of dirt here and there and it's been ok, but nothing real as yet. I'm only building enough fitness to do the long rides to work, which take in proper gravel (fucking my back this week didn't help) and when I do get time on the weekends, the mountain bike comes out.
I'll get there, and report back when I do. However, @Mitten I was at first fearful that I'd feel the same as you do about it all.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
My dad has possibly the same frameset in a different colour. Got to say it's actually a really nice bike to ride, so noodly but in a good way - it's so friggen comfy. His one's clapped out though so it's all good until you need to brake.
fatboyonabike
Captain oblivious
Doctor, 30, who was paralysed after bike 'sheared in two' sues firm
Dr Daniel Gordon, 30, suffered life-changing injuries when the forks of his £2,300 all-terrain gravel bike 'sheared in two' while riding it in Inverness, Scotland, in July 2020.
Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Still wouldn’t stop me from buying a gravel bike.Doctor, 30, who was paralysed after bike 'sheared in two' sues firm
Dr Daniel Gordon, 30, suffered life-changing injuries when the forks of his £2,300 all-terrain gravel bike 'sheared in two' while riding it in Inverness, Scotland, in July 2020.www.dailymail.co.uk
Would it have bottom of the barrel budget carbon forks? No. We all know budget carbon is a no-no.
Poor guy. What a shit go.
ozzybmx
Not a tree-hugging earth muffin
Sounds like a defect from factory.Doctor, 30, who was paralysed after bike 'sheared in two' sues firm
Dr Daniel Gordon, 30, suffered life-changing injuries when the forks of his £2,300 all-terrain gravel bike 'sheared in two' while riding it in Inverness, Scotland, in July 2020.
fatboyonabike
Captain oblivious
carbon is for fishing rods and pencils
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
I was initially worried, then quite impressed by strength of my carbon forks. I've occasionally accidentally ridden sections of trails much rougher than expected and they've been rock-solid (especially in terms of compliance, lol). While you've gotta feel bad for the dude, unless the manufacturer was negligent during construction or whoever did the engineering massively ballsed up the specs it sounds like more like shit luck and a freak failure to me. Sucks for him to be sure, but not convinced he deserves 10-million pounds in compensation.
