No wonder I am slow……

Been trundling around on a fatbike all winter but never thought about the weight which turns out to be 35.8lbs.
Swapped it yesterday for very nice grovel bike. 22lbs.

No wonder i am so slow…. ;0)

Swapped it yesterday for very nice grovel bike

Is that a bike where you have to grovel to your wife to be allowed to buy?

Also, when I say “allowed”, I mean you just do her the courtesy of telling her that you’ve decided to buy another bike, not that you feel like you need to ask permission or anything silly like that.

needs more like ^

Lol deffo at the stage of asking permission 🤣

Also strict 1 out 1 in policy.

I’m slow cos I’m fat and shit, doesn’t matter which bike I’m on!

Grovel is the new pleading..

I’m just slow, at 71kg there’s no way you could call me fat but that doesn’t mean I can go fast

The problem with gravel bikes is they make trail bikes feel so slow uphill afterwards.

Off to the velodrome tonight, that’s how to really ruin every other form of cycling, spinning along at 40km/h in a group on a bike with almost no rolling resistance, then suddenly finding yourself on the front isn’t fun though. My HR hit 200bpm 😂

Off to the velodrome tonight, that’s how to really ruin every other form of cycling,

That’s the equivalent of comparing nascar racing to rallying

What’s this one in, one out policy ? Yikes.

He’s installing a revolving door, as we speak.

Grovel bikes, 1 in 1 out, permission & no arguments about bicycle weight meaning sweet fa in the whole scheme of things, what is the world coming too, standards around here are definitely dropping.

There’s nothing quite like after having ridden a chunky bike to get on something that weighs owt. It’s like having new legs.

Normally my XC bike feels light and fast when I jump on having previously ridden the trail bike with chunky tyres. Unfortunately had the opposite feeling when I grabbed it directly after picking up the kids on the electric cargo bike – even with all the weight the Bosch motor feels nippy.

i can always afford to lose a stone in belly fat, and dont really notice when i do….. but a bike a stone lighter is very very noticeable.

What’s the new bike then Ton?

What’s the new bike then Ton?

I have a feeling its a red/orange Spesh….if I’ve connected it to a FB post earlier.

Diverge?

yes a diverge.   been thinking about one for a while. ticker is going into red again so needed something a bit easier than a fatbike to get out on.

Nice but we need photos!

I’ve got an orange Diverge. Obviously it’s not as fast as a red one, but it trucked me round the 100 mile Tour of Flanders sportive over Easter and Magic brewery 50 mile sticky mud ride this weekend.  Awesome bike, good choice.

Heh, I have no photos of it either!

Blew the tyres up on the folder after 5 weeks of commuting, (they had lost 40 psi  but looked fine) I feel fast again despite being slow.

Slow grovel biking is where it is at.

I think grovel nicely describes my technique going uphill

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I (like plenty of folk on here) flit between bikes and I really notice the difference in speed, weight and how the bike handles. That’s all part of the fun for me.

My gravel/cx bike is pretty quick and light but my xc bike is no slouch either. My Hello Dave is so different to my other bikes (or any bike I’ve owned or ridden) that it can feel like a big energy sapping lump at times. I still love it though as it’s so bloody capable and allows me to ride trails –  that scare the life out me – in relative safety.

Maybe I’m just trying to say is that bikes are awesome and it’s fun trying different ones.

Always amazed when I get on my groveller how nippy it is – 35s quicker than my 26″ Kona (that has a triple and Halo Twin Rail tyres) over a flat 0.94 mile section of hardpacked gravel. Obviously other metrics involved, but comparing my two best times.

I would like a shot of a tricked out race gravel bike, UCI weight or under, just to see how fast it’d be.

Something like Gianni Vermeersch’s bike from last year.

Slow grovel biking is where it is at.

I totally get this, and wish I rode more like this at times. But I’m just a big kid so when my wheels touch dirt or especially when going down hill, and even better, going down hill on a sweet piece of singletrack then I ain’t going to bimble. That’s what gravel riding is to me, riding relatively tame off road trails as fast as I can get away with on a fully rigid bike with dropbars and semi-slick 40mm tyres. My local club’s Tuesday night rides are a right hoot for this reason.

Got my 50k PR today on the gravel bike

My previous best time was on the same route – on my ebike 😳 which I’d somehow left as a normal ride (don’t usually do that)

As an aside – was surprised how confident I felt on the drops and arse in the air going down the PBW into Chee Dale/Millers Dale. With 40psi in 38mm tyres too (a bit too much, I know) – would have been a different story if it was wet. The random roadie/graveller I’d hooked up with said he could tell I was an MTB’er when he got to the bottom two minutes later 🤣

TBH I love the fatbike for this, it’s a little slow but importantly it’s faster than most people expect, so if you’re going at any half decent speed, they think you’re fast, and if you’re going slow they think it’s the bike. Win!

was surprised how confident I felt on the drops and arse in the air going down the PBW into Chee Dale/Millers Dale.

Heh, I was there today,  but walking not riding.

Got my 50k PR today on the gravel bike

Strava informed me I did my 100 mile PB in Belgium over Easter. That was on my Diverge. I must have done 100 years ago on a proper road bike, the only thing I can think is it would have been pre-strava.

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