New Gravel Bike - Guidance

[cantunamunch]

Thanks for the invite -we'll see if I can get over my general paranoia over sharing GPS data online. I know it's very unlikely anyone actually cares where I live or ride.

If you use the Mute ride feature on your app screen you can still post stats to the club feed without carpet bombing everyone with the GPS track/pics and without total privacy lockdown. Might help

I use a combination of private-by-default (only edited rides can be seen), home and work zone lockouts and I mute the non-private rides/skates/paddles.

 

[AngryAnalyst]

If you use the Mute ride feature on your app screen you can still post stats to the club feed without carpet bombing everyone with the GPS track/pics and without total privacy lockdown. Might help

I use a combination of private-by-default (only edited rides can be seen), home and work zone lockouts and I mute the non-private rides/skates/paddles.

Good to know, haven't played with the settings on it at all and wasn't aware of those features.

 

[Tony S]

Not a gravel rider but I live just off a gravel road, where I often take an evening walk. The other day a young couple rides by on gravel bikes, at a good clip, and waves. Five minutes later back they come. I do a big shoulder shrug like, "What happened?" She shouts out, "We hit pavement so we had to turn around!"

 

[davkt]

Thanks to my cream crackered knee (see quads tendon rupture thread!) I've got a Specialized Creo, just the E5 aluminium version as I bought it through my works cycle to work scheme (a UK government scheme that lets you buy a bike from your pre tax pay) and the E% was at the top end of the allowed spend. Basically its pretty much a Diverge with a motor, its a cracking good bike on or off road, motor on or off and doesn't weigh any more than my old (1990s) Dawes Galaxy which I'd say is the the ancestor of all gravel bikes.

 

[scott43]

Not a gravel rider but I live just off a gravel road, where I often take an evening walk. The other day a young couple rides by on gravel bikes, at a good clip, and waves. Five minutes later back they come. I do a big shoulder shrug like, "What happened?" She shouts out, "We hit pavement so we had to turn around!"

Aye Carumba!!!

 

[Philpug]

Not a gravel rider but I live just off a gravel road, where I often take an evening walk. The other day a young couple rides by on gravel bikes, at a good clip, and waves. Five minutes later back they come. I do a big shoulder shrug like, "What happened?" She shouts out, "We hit pavement so we had to turn around!"

They need a bike caddy that can swap them over to their road bike.

 

[cantunamunch]

Talking of suspension, anyone in this thread had their grubby gravel-nasty hands on a Fox 32 TC yet?