Show us your Gravel Bikes

[reindeer]

Earliest ref i found for GravelBike was salsa 2013/14?, and even that was a little ephemeral.
Can we find an earlier one?

https://g-tedproductions.blogspot.com/p/the-state-of.html
I think this was one of the first blogs I read about it, and it started as "gravel grinding".

 

[bikeworkshop]

Bike Rumour August 2013:
https://bikerumor.com/one-ride-review-2014-salsa-warbird-alloy-gravel-road-race-bike/

 

[bikeworkshop]

Just one Tanwall tyre,
throw the cat amongst the pigeons

 

[Takingabreak]

Gravel bike / Not gravel bike
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I don't really see much difference in the use they were designed for.

 

[novocaine]

The German price won't include vat, and its probably the same retail in Germany as trade price to the UK retaler tbh

So sell at 140 = £24 vat, trade 80, margin £36 sounds about right.

It costs us £2 a minute to have the shop door open

well shut then you numpty, all that heat going straight out the door.

 

[Russell]

Mine.

On one Pickenflick, flared bars, Hope 27.5 wheelset with 2.25” Nobby Nics, 1x drivetrain.

Gravel? Monstercross? CX bike with the wrong wheels? Don’t care x x

 

[Twozaskars]

I think you've just sold me the idea of owning one of these contraptions.

 

[Russell]

My work here is done.

 

[grantoury]

There is something very appealing to me about a bike with fat tyres and a drop bar. As said earlier I want a Surly midnight special for that reason.

 

[doctor-bond]

Almost 40 years separate these: time that has given one of them electronic shifting, thru axles, disc brakes, carbon forks and compact geometery.

Both frames are beautifully made by skilled people …..



… the one on the left is lighter, quieter and does off road things better (due to the bars) That notwithstanding, I’d give shed room to one like the young upstart - with wider bars, analogue shifting and not carbon forks - they make a lot of sense and handle really well.