thenomad

Only local double track, commuting and some mixed surface rides so far. Nothing as daunting as 100 miles of hardcore gravel but its a start.

Considering an actual double crank as its being run with the FD locked out of the granny anyhow.

JimF22003

Got the new Diverge a couple of weeks ago, but have only been able to do four or five rides so far. But I have gotten it nice and dirty at least once, so it's seen a little bit of action:

illdrag0n

Focus Mares AX 2.0 Disc

bgav

Here's my new cross/gravel bike, a Gunnar Hyper-X (54cm) with 44mm headtube.

ENVE Carbon CX Disc fork, sent to Parlee for fender eyelets and paint
Shimano Ultegra 6800 11sp 50/34 with Stages PM, 11-32T
TRP HYRD hyrdo disc brakes
Yokozuna Reaction compressionless cables
Boyd Altamont Disc Wheels
Thomson X4 Stem
Thomson Elite Setback Seatpost
Thomson Katie Compton Carbon CX bars
Chris King Griplock headset
Chris King bottom bracket
Fizik Arione VS Seat
Clement X'Plor USH 700X35c tires
Shimano M780 SPD pedals

whatwolf

Here's mine. CAAD9 CX, Challenge Chicanes, Swift Paloma bar bag. Pretty much ride this bike everywhere.

gomango

Great bike!

Still digging your Swift bag?

I'm using one on my Della Santa rando bike. Looking forward to it.

BoJaffa

A lot of super nice bits on the Gunnar. Nice job.

7daysaweek

ND Kid

Recent build. Me Likes.

hup

New alloy Grade. It was a total ebay "no way it'll go for this little" buy.
Took a spin for an hour this morning. There's some dialing in to do, but that's part of the fun.

illdrag0n

nice easy 45km ride yesterday

Yak9

Nice

Andy_K 

I put some 26x1.95" Happy Mediums on the Long Haul Trucker for an assault on Forest Park this weekend.



It didn't see much gravel until we got to Firelane 10, but this was just a test ride with this configuration before a planned trip to ride the Great Allegheny Passage and C & O Canal Towpath later this spring.

LesterOfPuppets

Nice!!! I used to ride Leif Erickson on my Trek 400 with CX tires on it. DT shifting was kinda sketchy at times, but still a great bike for FP.

You ever consider a Camelbak?

Andy_K 

Yeah, I usually take my Major Jake with 700x35 file tread tires out on Leif Erickson. The shifter location with the Gevenalle levers is better than the bar ends, but this setup really didn't give me a lot of problems. The biggest issue I had was that the descent on firelane 10 wore out my brake pads. We had to cancel some other planned side trips.


You mean because of all the filth on my water bottles? That was kind of gross actually. I have a Camelbak but I rarely use it. Usually I can find a clean spot somewhere on my gloves or jersey to wipe off the nozzle of the water bottle, but not so this week.

Otherwise, the Revelate bag provides plenty of storage and as an unintended bonus feature it does a pretty good job of holding the water bottles in place.

justin1138

ordinarily I wouldn't offer this one up as a "gravel grinder", but when the pavement ends sometimes you just keep going, even on 25's. good times...







for the locals, this is Still Creek Road which connects off of HWY 26 in Rhododendron.

09box

Good stuff! Some of the best gravel grinder stories are from riding a non grinder!

BNB

Nice bike, and I'm looking at this too. Have you weighed your bike? Curious to know the weight and the size of your bike. My "value" cx bike weighs 25 heavy pounds and it's a small. I love it but already want to move on to higher level cx/gravel bike.

Thx.

madjohn608

My Tamland 2. Swapped out the crank for a 46/36, put a different cassette on and a Selle Anatomica X saddle. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with how this came.

Andy_K 

That looks awesome! How much of Still Creek Road is gravel? What's the climb like?

cs1

How do you like the Tamland so far?

justin1138

The pavement ended about 2-3 miles in from the 26, and from there I rode around 7 miles or so of gravel. I had originally intended to ride up to Trillium Lake (11 miles one way), but I wasn't expecting the gravel and I didn't want to push my luck. I wouldn't be surprised if the gravel continued right up to Trillium. There appears to be enough roads around there that a decent sized ride could be made. After this experience, I'm inclined to think they would lean towards the less improved side too. Further exploration is on the books, but with a more appropriate tool.

The climb itself wasn't difficult, but it was steady. I was handling it well with a 53/39 and 11-28, and I'm definitely not the fastest/strongest climber out there. A little lower gearing would have been nice though.

I also hear there's a good network of logging roads accessible from HWY 30 just passed the Wildwood Golf Course.

knobster

If you want gravel, go out to Tillamook Forest. TONS of it out there and on the weekend, there is a bunch of it that's gated off and nobody is out there. I used to ride a dual sport motorcycle out there all the time and so much of it is un-passable due to the gates, but I checked with the logging company and they don't care if you use it with non-motorized vehicles. Bring your triple though. Steep grades. Want a really fun ride, Google Beaver Slide road. I'm not sure you'd get up it on a bicycle, but it's a fun decent and it hooks up with the abandoned railroad and there are a lot of tunnels you can explore on that track. Fun adventure.

madjohn608

I'm loving it. Some friends are dragging me into rides this year like the Almanzo and Dairy Roubaix so I was looking for a new ride that would be good for those. I never thought of Raliegh but read a review by Guitar Ted and a few weeks later a LBS had a great price so I went for it. It has become my favorite commuter and general bomb around towner. Made the modifications so it would be more suitable for the gravel rides (that 52 chain ring made no sense to me). A friend I ride with has one too. He also loves his. One thing I really don't like is the considerable toe overlap. That is a problem on a 54 however my friend has a 56 and he doesn't have to problem. Ride one if you get the chance!

Henry III

Picked this up as a 93 C'dale H400 hybrid frame for 20 bucks and then built up the rest. Converted some old Campy 126 Record hubs to 135 with new chromoly axle and swapped skewer rod from a 135 skewer to the Campy skewer. Looks completely stock but very low dish now and stronger then it was before. Then laced them up to Sun CR18 700c rims and DT swiss db spokes. It's a fun comfy bike and not too worried if it was jacked unlike some of my other bikes. Only beef is if I"m not careful I strike my heels on the Tektro CR720 since they stick out more then the original cantilevers. With clipless pedals I wouldn't have an issue but since I use MKS urban platforms and clips. If I don't have my feet fully inserted into the clips then I brush the brake arms.

It's also fairly light as the way it sits at about 26 lbs bags and all. Without the bags it was just a little over 20 lbs. Also there's room to toss some meatier rubber on it but the 30mm Strada Bianci's are plush yet fast so I'll ride these until the threads show. I believe these originally came with 38 Avocet cross tires stock from the factory