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Fair, mine we’re fine but I haven’t bought any in years tbh. Picked up 5 pairs around 4 years ago, still going strong

I don’t but can thoroughly endorse both pongo and fingers crossed design for subtle options

Ta v much! I have a feeling that they might not satisfy my vanity on full-lycra rides, but will pick up a pair of terras for the casual and xc times I think.

Oh, hadn't seen either of those and both look good. Plus my X5s are looking a little tired now so am probably due some new riding shoes. How's the stiffness in those for an all-day road ride?

I have HY/RDs on one bike and JuinTech R1s on another (R1s are older). I have loved the HY/RDs, for me they are more powerful (both used with sram levers). There is an issue with the lever pull when set up as per the manual though, and I end up winding the barrel adjuster out really quite a lot to get them to feel right. Seems strange but it’s all balanced and they’ve been working great since fitting 4000km ago.

The R1s were pretty great, easy to adjust etc etc. However after c.25000km mine definitely need the pistons cleaning up as they are kind of wiggling our rather than moving neatly perpendicular to the frame. New seals will be needed after splitting the caliper but these are not available as far as I can work out. No response from the distributor. This is why I bought the TRPs instead of another set.

They (Apis) do 4 or 5 sewing patterns iirc - personally I always go for the one that has a central longitudinal strip rather than the orange segments-type one as per Albion (forgive the strange description) but have run samples in all of them at some stage. The fit differs a bit across the range.

Might just be really bad luck - I don’t own one but as far as I can tell the Albion caps are made by the same Italian factory as 95% of poly/cotton caps on the market

You might get on with the SQLabs pads, v thin and dense. They do their own bibs, and a few brands use the pads too: some from Maloja, and Vaude, and the current version Morvélo Nth

What do you mean by minimal?

They’re good, and actually roll faster on asphalt than you would expect. I had the Evo ones I think, but they were blagged pre-prod ones labelled as Terrabites [working title I guess] so can’t be sure that they definitely were.

WTB nanos are definitely a really great option for nearly-mtb-tread on 700s, haven’t run them for a while but they’re always in the running.

The ultrabite 700c comes in 40-622 but that gives a 38mm fitted width, they came up fairly narrow on my wheels

Maybe less glass (though a fair bit of car window glass about lately) but probably more smashed up flint (lots of West Sussex South Downs Way and related lanes). I’ve had issues with cuts in the past, in fact my first 5km on G-Ones resulted in a tyre going in the bin. Just bad luck I think

I ran the 38s at 25 psi on flint trails which did start to damage the rim and sidewall, but I left the wheels sitting horizontal each side for a while and they’re still going strong at nearly 4000km on the current set

G-one all rounds have served me brilliantly for thousands of km - currently running the addix compound tan wall jobs

Ah yeah I think I remember following that storyline on the TCR thread!

Cheers everyone, I think xero/vivo might be the thing. I had been starting to turn towards the Vivo things aesthetically but I do wish they’d stop all the honeycomb business and make something nondescript

Haven’t racked up enough lifetime mileage to qualify for sandals I don’t think

Ha. I mean, they’re light but they don’t exactly pack down do they? Also, I did say I’m travelling for social purposes...

That’s basically what I’ve tried but the rubbing either on my legs or carbon frame concerns me a bit

Anybody got a hot tip on some packable trainers/shoes? Not necessarily for trips, but I'm riding longer distances for social stuff where I'd like to not be in "proper" SPD shoes all the time, and my Giro Rumbles don't cut it for 12 hours in the saddle. Also looking to avoid deploying any more luggage than my frame bag

Until I picked up some 650b wheels, I was riding all the bridleways and SDW bits between Amberley and Brighton on 700x38 G-Ones, during all that dry weather at the start of lockdown it was no problem at all with lower pressures (tubeless ofc). Now that I've tried 650s and v light mtb tyres though, i've been leaning towards those just because there's almost no compromise on tarmac

That's good to know - likewise @Colm89. Both of us have a lot of large Adobe files going back and forth for work, so slow internet would make things pretty painful. Realistically there's a couple of years before this will be a thing for us anyway, unless we get pushed by other factors

Super jealous, this prompted another daydreaming property search from me. I'm hoping that the rural broadband gets a nationwide upgrade by the time me and OH could work entirely remotely

Anybody got a set of 29er tyres sitting about, stock ones that immediately got swapped or something? Looking for something a little better/wider than the 1.9s on my little brothers entry level trek but also don't want to fork out for new tubeless race boots

The trouble with the looser ones of those is the amount of swing you get from putting stuff in the pockets

The bit at the beginning (i didnt get that far in) where he was basically just saying "it's just a bike, call it a bike' I agree with well enough. But surely the machines marketed as gravel bikes are really just practical road bikes that suit normal people's purposes. Comfortable, fine to ride down a towpath/farm road, options with more nimble geometry if you want it, etc. All the reasons that anytime someone who isn't really a cyclist round my way (Sussex) asked advice on a road bike, I tell them to buy a Croix De Fer. [pre geometry change]

Anybody here a member of the Nearly Wild Camping Club? Just had an advert pop up on IG, had a look and it seems like it might be a good way of avoiding the fear of getting booted off a farmers field at the end of a shotgun, but also all the locations might be shit and you don’t know until you’re a member