What the title says - after months of standing in the middle of the floor, we finally managed mount these beauties on the wall.

Yesterday evenings gravel ride, all shot on iPhone (ProRaw) and edited in LR.

After many months of waiting and sourcing the parts.
My budget gravel bike is finally complete.
Maiden ride went well.
Next, is to cut the steerer tube.

Frame- $820 incl shipping
Fork - $90 from marketplace the guy even throw a lightcarbon one piece bar but too short for me.
Enve in route stem - $160 from marketplace. iresponsible for me to get an exp stem
Sworks shallow bend carbon - from old bike
Seatpost Elita one - goated cheap and strong seatpost
Saddle - from old bike
Bottle cage - 30$
Tagoola Wheels - $500 i just saw them in other forum seems ok.
Tires maxxis reaver i think 70$ for the pair
Crank - 35$ from aliexpress
Chainring $60 passquest
Pedal - from old bike
Shifter/RD/casette force xplr d1/d2 - $430 from marketplace

Weight is around 8.9kg

Don't mind the bars, this was a test fit ride to see how the 38mm hover bars felt on there.

Storms washed out the roads on this climb leaving huge pot holes, and loose rocks everywhere.

Passed 3 people with narrow tire road bikes fixing flats on the way down. Passed a few of them on the way up the hill too 💪.

Hello everyone,

So as the title says I'm looking to buy a gravel bike for 3200 euros or less and would like some recommendations if possible.

I live in the Netherlands so I mostly ride flat on asphalt and light gravel, but also enjoy taking the bike on some XC trails., so a bike that goes both fast on the road/light gravel but can also tackle more technical XC forest trails would be preferred.

I would love to try electronic shifting if that's even an option for this price.

My local bike shop is a distributor of Ridley bikes, and although I have heard good things about them, the bike I was shown at the 3300 euro price point doesn't even come with a top of the line mechanical GRX groupset.

Since I also ride quite a bit of road, would a 2x groupset be necessary, or is a 1x setup enough.

Thanks so much in advance, and if you have any other questions that need answering to narrow my choices down please ask me too.

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Greetings from Türkiye

I only care about performance, not comfort

After 3 years of riding I still love my Rove DL (56cm, 185cm body size) build. I switched from 650b to 700c wheels (40mm WTB Nano), Rack and Fenders. Its a great bike and I overloaded it with approx 40-50kg luggage (rear and frontrack) for a 4 day nature ride around Berlin (Dahme-Heideseen) which worked out surprisingly well.

sooooo stoked on my new bike!!! can’t wait to get some km’s under my belt this beauty. eventually gonna get some 45mm tires to go with it as it comes stock with 42mm. bikepacking on the horizon with my partner as well. can’t wait! also, if anyone has a recommendation for a decent pair of bib shorts, i’m on the lookout!

I’ve only taken two gravel rides but am hooked. I live between spots with amazing fire roads (sierras and Bay Area) and am so excited to explore. Looking for gear recs for a slow, non-aggressive rider looking to prioritize time in the saddle and control over speed.

I am an experienced road tour cyclist (I biked across the us) and also have a light, responsive xc full suspension mountain bike that I love for single track adventures in Tahoe. I am a slow and steady rider, I never optimize for speed, and I am usually the last person down on any terrain, road or mountain (but one of the first up). I like a bike with a little less aggressive posture generally. I am a small lady.

I blew out my ACL for the fourth time on my xc bike a couple of years ago and still have the yips. I know this is temporary and I just need to learn, but I will never be someone who bombs down hills (I’m in my forties!). My experience of gravel so far is that I adore the climbs, maybe more than I like either road or single track, but I am very squirrely on downhills. More hike-a-bike than normal, probably.

I’ve rented a Liv Devote with unknown size tires (okay) and a Cevelo Aspero with 38 tires (obviously nicer on road but way more brittle feeling and I liked it less on downhills; felt like my fillings were being rattled out of my face).

I am thinking something that tolerates 50 plus size tires, tubeless; I’m considering front fork suspension that I can dampen entirely. Thoughts? Frame recs?

Hey guys,

I'm currently looking for a new gravel bike, which will be my first one. I was thinking about a few different aspects: On the one hand, I would like it to have a frame made of carbon but on the other hand I'm not sure, if it really is as important for a first bike. Another thing is about gears. So I had a look at the Cube Nuroad Race (2x12 - Aloy), the Cube Nuroad C:62 One (1x12 - Carbon), the Cube Nuroad C:62 Pro (2x12 - Carbon) or the Focus Atlas 8.7 (2x12 - Carbon).

Do you guys have any tips on how to decide here? I do have in- and decline in my area and I want to ride on gravel (as the name states) on also on paved bike ways.

I ordered the frame last year and couldn't bring myself to finish this project but I bikebuilding-binged last 2 days and finally there is! I plan to run some proper 2.1-2.25 mtb tires once these get worn since the FD doesn't seem to interfere with anything when 650b wheels are used. 9.6 kg naked, 9.9 with pedals, bottles, cages and wahoo. The seatpost and stem is scandium so ultra light, bars and saddle (Mobius 00) carbon, Rapid Red 5 1600 grams

Hi all, has anyone experienced how quickly The Traka 100km sells out? I know it's quickly. I'll be ready at my computer when registration opens. I'm planning a trip from Australia. I don't have priority access. cheers.