Originally Posted by
cubewheels
A gravel poser is someone who rides a perfectly clean gravel bike with clean socks and footwear. If their wheel is >50mm wide, that makes them a poser and a jerk too.
A real gravelleur never cleans their bike, shoes, and socks. They are only allowed to clean the chain and jockey wheels and maybe the chainring and cassette too.
My poser 54 tires, really full on 29x2.2 tires, none of this namby-pamby 700c nonsense
. At mile 50 when I discovered a section of the trail didn't have a old rail road ties removed, just 80% buried and mile 65 when the small gravel was fist sized, the wife and I decided on switching to 27.5 and going 2.3. Keeping the 700c wheels with 38c tires for the easy gravel but we are looking at starting unsupported endurance races so wider is better.
