TC1

Yeah, it's goofy that people are dropping multiple thousands of dollars on new gravel bikes, when there are so many classic frames with plenty of tire clearance for most ride/rs languishing unloved. Sure, the paint on this 36 year-old frame isn't perfect, but it's a gravel bike, it's going to get scratched and maybe dinged -- but I don't need to care, because I have mid-3 figures invested. I bombed it around some overgrown singletrack right after taking this picture, and was plowing branches out of my way with my body and the bike. I would think twice about doing that with most new gravel bikes, for at least a couple seasons.

One of my other recent projects is a road-bike conversion to flat-bar gravel/run-around-town bike -- I like it, but it's far too modern to talk about here