Marcus_Ti

Lots and lots of rolling hills. Every year just circumnavigating around My Fair City (Lincoln, NE), Gravel Worlds 150 puts on a race with 10-12,000ft of climbing in one day. There's all of maybe 100m of absolute elevation change ASL from one side of the city limit to the other.

Flatness is very misleading from an on-the-ground POV, and some topographers actually did a big project on it using high-resolution GPS data:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ancake/284348/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/n...raphy-science/

California itself is about as flat as Nebraska is--when you look at it mathematically at the entire state terrain. While the later has lots of rollers--the former has mountainy bits but even more flat basins etc.

trailangel

Well, then you could really use those stiff 6 bolt disc brake hubs.
6 bolt... international standard
Centerloc.... Shimano standard

I love rollers, and yes, we don't have enough of them in California.

Marcus_Ti

CL is an international standard....Even Campagnolo got over themselves and uses it.

trailangel

Thanks for all the corrections
Out here in California we don't know anything

SalsaShark

Trust me....come ride the hills of the Mississippi Valley and you will understand. There are miles and miles of rolling hills. Really, there are no flat miles around here at all!
Last night's ride was 23.5 miles, with 1765 ft of elevation, and i was not searching for hills!

unterhausen

My first experience with centerlock didn't go well. It looked like a Shimano BB bearing wrench should work, but it didn't get the ring tight enough. Kept coming loose. I finally got a better tool for it, the bb bearing tools that aren't sockets do work. I probably would go with centerlock on most of my bikes, how often do you swap rotors? And $25 will get you a suitable tool for it.

I guess you've never been to Dubuque.

Hondo Gravel

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