lovesickoyster

Although, it was pretty nice to be able to see which people are lowlife losers on Tinder back in my dating days. They made it very clear how shitty they were when they bashed me for my green bubbles. Saved me a ton of time!

jesus, who hurt you?

if you ask these people what background radiation is they mostly just stare at you with huge bambi eyes.

i heard boulder is the place to be for cycling on more than one occasion :)

Slovenia

thank you! still feels a little bit like riding a tractor with the ultra wide handlebars but I guess people get used to it 😂

Also was it a pain in the ass(literally) to ride on rough surface?

I wouldn't really say literally, but it's definitely a learning curve. I did not expect it to be that technical from the photos I saw beforehand, but it was full of holes and loose sand on some places, and regular ramps of 15%-18%. I could do with an 11-40 instead of the 11-34 it came with rofl.

Can you explain what makes it gravel bike as opposed to a mountain/off-road bike, or are the terms effectively synonymous?

it's like a road bike with wider tires, nothing special - it's much faster on light gravel and pretty decent on pavement as well.

outstanding!

i can’t believe people here are actually falling for this being a serious post vs the “you shouldn’t be doing this because it hurts reddit wink wink nudge nudge” that it actually is.

I have to say they are absolutely awesome. In the 4 years I've had it I have never, ever needed to adjust my derailleurs, it's always where it should be, vs. the constant battle of cables stretching and just generally having to tinker with it every couple of months.

I used to have mechanical sram, the one lever shifting was really clever and I loved it, but now I'm back to shimano with di2 - having said that I think i'd be just as happy with electronic sram :)