When is a bike a gravel bike? Or not…

[Tootyred]

I think its a bike.....?

And that's where the problem comes in! Marketing....you got to have something new to believe in....better, bigger, apparently faster.....heavier....

Pass the laudanum and cola drink Carstairs.....I've got an idea about the future of cycling!

 

[Tootyred]

The other problem is people are so accustomed to everything now in one place.

Your phone does calls, camera, text, email, tv, music....everything in one.

That's what people now expect....so why doesn't my bike do that? Well frankly for the same reason a multi tool is not as good as a tool chest!

As slightly older people, we are happy with tje fact that to ride fast on the road you need a road bike and to ride roughly offroad you need a mtb. Younger people expect a single package which encompasses everything they need....

The gravel bike is trying to be the i-phone of bikes. Problem is it does everything kinda ok...but not brilliantly. So it gets tweeked...fatter tyres, thinner tyres, more carbon, more steel, less weight, stronger and heavier, 27.5, 29, 700c......

But like all compromises pulling it one way, buggers it another.

So i suggest for happy riding, just have lots of bikes.

Like we all do.....now theres justification of a hobby if you ever needed it.

 

[bagpuss]

 

[bagpuss]

 

[foz]

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that's clearly not a gravel bike, but a grass track racer.....

 

[bagpuss]

family ......

 

[bagpuss]

Foz, you are splitting rocks over this.

 

[novocaine]

family ......
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split rims, nice. wonder if it's got Etap on it or if it's still in the stone age.

 

[2manyoranges]

That’s a Rubble Bike not a Gravel Bike

argh that means…we may see:

Gravel Bike
Rubble Bike
Hardcore Bike
MOT Type 1 Bike
Aggregate Bike

 

[bagpuss]

Erocker ready