Glorious Gravel Epic 2024 - Gisburn Forest - One On FreeRanger & Hunt Wheels

Glorious Gravel Epic 2024 - Gisburn Forest 102km ish
Episode 286
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[@PW-CreakySaddle]

Welcome back Simon, hope all has been well.

[@simonthomas-lakedistrictvelo]

Thank you 👍 All good apart from Manflu!

[@MrRafaztar]

Shame the weather was like that 😮 I am still not convinced that the northwest has proper gravel routes, seems to be a mix of trail where an MTB would be better and road sections. But I just gotten a gravel bike , to add to a road bike and an MTB . So will be trying some of these routes. From ☀️Blackpool

[@simonthomas-lakedistrictvelo]

Yeh I know what you mean, in the Lakes we have mountain biking routes the are just more challenging on a Gravel Bike yet you can do them with the road sections to link them up and also you can ride from home without tapping out a high heart rate pushing a draggy full suspension bike around. Gravel bikes allow you to ride pretty much anything but as in life there are tools specifically for each task but you could still hit a nail into a piece of wood with a screwdriver 🤣 Gravel is out there if you want it ie fire access roads in forests but that could get alittle boring if that's all we did. Enjoy the new bike and ride it everywhere, even on Gravel in Lancashire there will be some cracking routes that the bike will be perfect for 👍 Thanks for messaging 🙏