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grx is LITTERALLY UNRIDABLE

these folk are the teens at the skatepark who think modern skating in full of [slur] and why can't it be like ..... wearing a reissue baker tee

thought this was a meme post, laughing more now i know it's not

hard to actually separate this add from most American gravel brands doing it unironically,

yusssssss

first ride on this and in the queens county over lunch

rides lovely, little lane action, little cycle path, little a road, great

got under took by a top cap staring canyon rider who made no sound and all the cars gave me a lanes worth of space on an overtake

feels good to be back

excellent thank you,

mmmm i @edscoble says mudguards on the frames are a faff too,

luckily my fork is going on a pomp :eyes:

ed to save gravel riding 2021?!?!!?

ultra distance riders 🤝 me trying not to get killed on the way to the nature reserve

in my aero bars trying to get down the a road as quick as possible

well first you just have to ride 30 miles of A road with no cycle lane outside of town.....

you're right, the British would hedge it in "the red wall doesn't want workers rights, they don't want the nanny state"

chris king hates workers rights apparently, he's a im sure he'll get an obe or whatever soon

ooooh that's pretty tidy, did it take any "persuasion" or just bolt on?

this is british gravel culture, slightly ugly, weird mismatch of our own components and imported important ones, maybe made by a parler poster

i don't like it, but it's what we have

i think its time us brits took our insperation back

it's clear we cant keep lusting after pastel colour Californian dust bikes which they wont even sell here

we need vivid tones to cut through the grey
29r wheels to get rollover for the roots
it needs to not make us look like a yank on holiday
it needs to be low on import tariffs
it cant have tan walls which get ruined after a single ride
it needs a built in caridice support

it's time to take our gravel back

enough of this simping over american gravel culture,

where they get 2 days of rain a year, where they have mountains and fire roads

we ride 4 mile sections of bridal path at a time before for we're stopped by a oddly shaped gate and we like it, we savour it, it's time for our bikes to reflect this

mash / dad bikes / 2008 nostalgia / #occupykingkog

anyone fit front rack to an all day fork?

a friend tried the cheap sjs canti one, i tried the nitto m14, neither fit nicely

am i forced to get something large and modular?

just want something to carry my basket and bag

A Richey is a Harley for wfh liberals.

v funny

to me mash is the closest thing to a skate brand cycling has, it genuinely has some good history/ cultural significance to it, and at one point, was somewhat countercultural in its aesthetic.

i just find it funny, like most skate brands, as they've grown they've not grown through being relevant to the culture that is now, they've grown by being a nostalgic reference to their userbase who now has a larger pool of disposable income, their pockets getting deeper etc, their style of riding changing.

the brand has the energy of the old guy at the premier, bops around, is chill, and everyone is whispering telling you what a big deal they once were. but alas all you can see is a 40 year old dude, wearing a brown baker tee and a long grey hoodie, crusty ass DCs taking half a filming day kickflipping a 5, meanwhile you have 30 up and comers dm'ing you on insta landing a tre down a 20 set to the sound of pop smoke

this is without touching on how they seem to have been absorbed into "bike marketing" at large and no longer hold a cool outsider perspective, again, like an aging skate-brand. them releasing/prototyping a gravel bike which looks straight out of 2015, dripped in SRAM product placement and chas looking like he's any random insta discover sponsored rider is strangely fitting for where they're at

i've set up so many vbrakes over the last few months that i can finally do it without wanting to garrotte myself

kinda like that it's a little ugly, can't wait to get passed by a canyon bro in the lanez

you eerrrrr......keeping that there steel segmented discbrake fork? you know....in a parts box? unloved?

someone could very well make use of it, just saying,

not me!!! but someone

someone could get canti mounts put on it, and a rack mount, and have a mini barnacle fork,

it's this bike which actually makes me want a "road" bike again

i love how it's impossible to tell mash apart from any other dorky mamil brand now, really grown with their market

interested in the carbon footprint of making these vs a stamped crimp out of alu, is it like a tote bag where you have to use it 5000x before it offsets a plastic one?

respect the grift tho, £10 for a bolt, my guy a mamil wealth extractor and we stan that

@whatfriends definitely one which says "baby on board" right below a "manchester bee" to let everyone know i drive like an ass, and as such, am one of them, please don't think im a cyclist

the beauty of the nissan note is there is no project, it's already perfect

it would simply be a single post thread, featuring a picture of a nissan note, with a window sticker

then 8 pages of "absolutely unreal boot space that" from assorted forum goers