Lets have a "show off your gravel bike" thread.

Here’s my road rat sporting its brand new Sammy Slicks.

It’s a lovely handling bike on all surfaces. the only thing that is a pain are the horizontal drop outs with the rear mech hangar attached to the chain tug. Makes it a real PITA to remove the wheel.

What tyre pressures are people running? I put 80psi in my SS’s but not sure if that is ok or not. I ride hard packed trails on it – canal paths and cinder tracks, so no need to have the pressures on the lower side.

Cheers.

I’ve a Diverge Sport and running 85 psi. (Road, Canal Paths , cinder tracks)
Took it out on my usual HT run last Sunday and had no issues except under a canal bridge with cobbles I thought my brain was going to fall out lol
No where online to link to pics as yet. 🙁

How come you are parting ways with the Arkose?

What will replace it?

And will you be selling it? 😉

How come you are parting ways with the Arkose?

What will replace it?

And will you be selling it?

I do love it, house rules 1 bike only and I’m missing the 29er With things coming up I’ve just picked up a new Clockwork which I’ve stripped and upgraded which will be more suitable. Yes, it will be sold in the next week or two, probably will split it all. Will I get another one? In time I will, a truly wonderful bike but for now I want my 29er back.

I’ve got a plan to get round your N=1 rule – lend it to me, you can have it back whenever you want 😛

I’d change houses rather than put up with that rule.

I can cope with it John, we don’t have loads of spare cash lying around at the moment so can’t justify having bikes in the garage sitting there when our mini teadrinkers could do with things. It’s only for now, as I get older things will change. I’m in no rush to get my ideal number of n+5 🙂

soma rich wrote:

Have either of the other Gt Grade owners had issues with the stock rims?

My rear wheel has been rebuilt once already with new spokes and still wont stay true

I remember you posting about that, back when I was looking into buying a Grade. Not had any issues with my wheels. (Done about 400km on them so far, probably 70% road, 30% dirt.)

Slightly different now – marathon plus tyres, mudguards, old Skool horn, lights, bottle cage, D lock and a few others bits. It’s my most used bike, mainly commuting

Pinnacle Arkose 2

There are some obnoxiously revolting set ups in this thread. I think bikebuoy and ChunkyMTB and a couple of others with off the shelf bikes have got it right.

Here’s mine. It started off nicely enough.

Then I loaded it up with shite (guards, lights, saddle bag, bottle cage, BOB axle).

I ride it to work which takes in a pretty wild few miles of singletrack that rattle my brains out, then a few miles on towpaths, then tarmac then farm tracks to finish.

Occasionally I go for rides with my wife on it around the Monsal Trail etc, and sometimes I take it adventuring.

Munro I feel there is a difference tho in a so called gravel bike and an out and out cx race bike as the two you mentioned. They are nice tho nonetheless 😉

@Munro Biker , Campsite looks very scenic, can i ask where it is ?

@Munro Biker.. what tent is that??

Firestarter, a few of the proper gravel bikes are OK, provided they have normal bars, stems pointing the right way etc etc, but the majority are a bit revolting.
I love the niner, and like most of the Pinnacles and tang’s bike.

The campsite is Sligachan, full details of what we got up to are on this thread-

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-week-touring-the-hebrides-picture-heavy

As for the tent it’s about ten years old from Decathlon, three man, very light at about 3kg and packs down to roughly the size of a toaster. It was about £80 back then. I think it has now become this one-

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/quickhiker-ultralight-3-hiking-tent-3-man-grey-id_8245651.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjw_rytBRDVhZeQrbzn_q0BEiQAjnbSHCnb2ugjtXlxEhQpCpNApIws9zpI2Mncag5ns9ULWokaAiab8P8HAQ

Well youll be pleased to know ive added another spacer under my stem but flipped it neg rise 😉

eshoote – my Tripster is currently perched beside me on the last night of my b&b tour, shod with 37mm Travel Contacts which have performed flawlessly on a huge mix of surfaces this week. Plenty of gravel, slate, hard pack – but also rolled along nicely on the road thanks to the big centre tread. I’d recommend them.

Have either of the other Gt Grade owners had issues with the stock rims?

Yep – spoke pinged bust on the road the other night. Rear wheel not true now .. had to walk home.
GT Grade 105 Carbon

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Halo Twin Rail 38 tyres are an excellent choice for those looking for an all purpose tread

paulx I had a few of the original spokes ping just riding along, so got it re-built with DT spokes and its still going out of true now. Thinking of replacing the whole wheelset. Any recommendations for strong gravel/cross wheels?

Kinesis Pro 6 with Stans Iron Cross wheels. Managed to squeeze 40mm front and 35mm rear tyres in, to smooth out the rooty singletrack a bit.

I can’t get paid the picks of mine to post.

I do rate Vittoria xg pro though, as wellwell as wellwas kenda kommandos although theythey wear fast.

Couple more of my CDA. On reading this thread I now know that my stem is the ‘right’ way up but I have too may spacers. I don’t like the aesthetic of the saddle bag but it’s uselessness overcomes this.

a couple more of mine from my Mull trip

bumper that last photo makes me want to get out and ride, superb! 🙂

double post 😐

soma_rich – Member
bumper that last photo makes me want to get out and ride, superb!

me too, shall we skive tomorrow off work 😆

bumper – Member
a couple more of mine from my Mull trip

Very gravelly. 🙂

My commuter in occasional offroad mode – good fun when I have the time!

Akrose + Tiagra + Spareparts + Weird Wheels + 42cc Contis

Just back home from my five day tour to Snowdonia. Plenty of mixed surfaces – from A roads (poor route choice on my part!) to lanes, cobbles, slate, gravel, singletrack… you name it. One of the bridges near Conway on R5 had rubber tiles on it. Proper red black carpet treatment.

Anyway – here’s the Tripster in loaded-up mode. It performed brilliantly, happily trotted up lots of long climbs, enjoyed some great off-road bits in Wales and when I turned for home this morning, helped me stick some pretty quick miles in to finish it all off.

Some great bikes on this thread – it’s very interesting seeing how everyone has specced them out to suit their needs. Much as I’ve enjoyed the Tripster in this configuration, it’ll be nice to stick the 28mm tyres back on and lose some of the luggage 🙂

A wee spin round Rothiemurchus today checking out the site for the Stopover Festival next weekend.

That’s the Amazon wearing Maxxis Raze 35’s at the moment, though I’m tempted to try something in a 40. Perfect area for a grrrravel bike too.

Slated beyond belief on here the other week……

but here you go….

I`m now prepared for the barrage of insults again….. 🙄

Bumper what photo effect turns clouds that black?

^Is that the bike with the awful green hubs and mismatched colour calipers?

cynic-al – Member
Bumper what photo effect turns clouds that black?

hdr with a high contrast and saturation.

Taken yesterday. How embarrassing. I’ve just realised that i still have the reflectors on the wheels.

@stoney: no insults from me mate, i quite like it, although i’m not sure i would ride a bike that colour myself.
😀

@jerrys: vayas rule. 😀

Not your worst effort, Jerry! 😀

Good to see your now traditional stack of spacers in there!

Good to see your now traditional stack of spacers in there!

In my defence, that’s how it came. I’ve only fiddled with the gearing so far 🙂

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