Gravel bikes can do ANYTHING!🤔

[@RiseNShine681]

The only thing I hate about gravel bikes are people who compare gravel bikes to MTBs. All bikes have their place. What ever your preference is just have fun and don't gatekeep!

[@michawesoek3255]

Most of the time those people don't even have a gravel, and are showing distain towards it. I have a gravel bike and I know it's just terrible in terrain, compared to a full suspension bike. But damn do I enjoy being fast on tarmac while still being able to do some drops, or ride in muddy terrain

[@michaeltagor4238]

​@@michawesoek3255yeah but you can be relatively fast on roads and it goes without saying how better MTBs are at kuddy terrain. If you can't be fast on an MTB on a smooth surface that's a skill issue

[@thomasspotzl4240]

Maturing as a cyclist: 1. A bit tame! 2. Thank god for tarmac!

[@Nessunego]

My hardtail mtb can go on tarmac, too

[@tim4168]

You should try riding one it's pretty fun

[@zedddddful]

Hardtails are great but slow it's just depends what you want to do covering any decent distance with road involved the gravel bike shits all-over any MTB but more off-road MTB any day.

[@93_industries]

Bmx can go on tarmac too

[@TrickyTree84]

Slowly

[@Nessunego]

@@TrickyTree84 Slowler than someone, faster than most ;)

[@alainbellemare2168]

They used to be called cyclo cross in the 80 s

[@udonisaxel5283]

Cyclocross bikes are not the same as gravel bikes

[@edmundcharles1685]

Cyclo-cross bikes are still a thing. They're meant for racing , whether gravel bikes are in most cases best suited for loger rudes and adventure, due to their comfy geo.

[@PP-cm4re]

They are similar in terms of the terrain you ride on but they do have differences. Frame geometry is probably the main difference.

[@mickbmx]

MTBs suck for long distance riding and road bikes suck on mud, gravel, big hills.. Gravel bike with a 0.7 gear ratio is the boss..

[@Alimukz]

Interesting. I think MTB hardtail with suspension lockout is the best all rounder. And that's from someone who usually rides a slightly aggressive road bike

[@mickbmx]

@@Alimukz you’re stuck with the same hand position and top speeds aren’t great. Depends on gearing.

[@michaeltagor4238]

​@@mickbmx that greatly sounds like a skill issue on your part

[@mickbmx]

@@michaeltagor4238 what do you mean.. do you have any skills?

[@michaeltagor4238]

@@mickbmx you complained about top speed long distance and hand position, none of tuose are actual issues, just pedal harder, just get better endurance, in other words, you got skill issue (and if i have to explain wjat skill issue means then I guess you're too old to have conversation with)

[@colletjulien]

Jack of everything, master of none.

[@thedownunderverse]

Yep. Perfect for most

[@LordVarkson]

Jack of all asses, the one who makes this call.

[@ozowizo37]

gravel bikes

[@mirzaishaan1]

Every bike has its place. ✌️

[@bubblesezblonde]

❤❤❤ConorShredding❤❤❤

[@Rachman01]

I have a FS MTB and an hybrid “E-Gravel” bike.. Both have their purpose and I’m a hell of a lot faster on the gravel bike pending the terrain is flowy enough.

[@mikailashkiifirmansyah2591]

dear GCN. can you make a tutor about moding a fixie to gravel

[@votiskygabor]

Cross>gravel

[@same5742]

It's the cat croc king himself!

[@oliverhunt9362]

A Gravel bike and a full sus as your two bikes is perfect. Pretty much covers any sort of bike riding you want to do.

[@avroman100]

Stop that… I can’t hear about gravel anymore

[@FixedundFertig]

Since i switched to the dark Roadie Side I get the point of Gravel Bikes now. They are for people who want to ride MTB's but prefer the body position/the riding Style and maybe the astetics from a Drop Bar bike.. These are MTB's for Roadies 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Fedelia86]

For me it‘s the other way round. I‘m an XC Mountie and the gravel bike is my bike if I want to go really fast on reasonably tame terrain. (I hate sharing my biking space with cars, so gravel all the way.)

[@darrin2382]

@@FixedundFertig MTBs are niche. I mean...most of them have never been near a mountain lol

[@LordVarkson]

@@FixedundFertigThat’s what monstercross bikes are. MTB is for a specific activity, and that activity is completely unrelated to mountain biking.

[@davidbrown7883]

90s MTB with drops. Tomac style 🚴‍♀️🔥🔥🔥

[@BobbyB24601]

If you have a hard tail i don't see the need for a gravel bike. And a hard tail will actually ride wwll off the roads too.

[@Coolnesscollective]

I broke my collarbone on a gravel bike after going of a huge jump

[@defnotralph]

Your fork be like🤢

[@francisdelacruz6439]

Todays gravel bikes were the 90s early 2000s mtb. The geometry can shred.

[@southern_leyte8230]

Just ride a mountain bike... 😂😂

[@darrin2382]

too slow

[@southern_leyte8230]

@@darrin2382 Just pedal faster 🤣

[@LordVarkson]

@@southern_leyte8230bro never heard of gears

[@janebeneezercabrera5364]

Pretty much a early 90s mtb With even thinner tires

[@joaocastro924]

Can't help to think that hard tails exist... and can do anything (even "gravel"). if you consider the gravel bike to do everything send it in bike park wales :)

[@danlewis7678]

Hard tails are slowww on anything but mountain trails.

[@slipperyfish7560]

Tires too wide really. And a lot of them have 1x groupsets which are slow. Bring back 90s mountain bikes and they're perfect basically..

[@davidguthrie5941]

My mountain bike goes everywhere as well.

[@envixxsy]

Slowly

[@longebane]

And makes gravel feel like tarmac. Which could be a good thing or bad thing

[@bobrogers7004]

They do pretty much everything badly. Slow, clumsy and draggy on tarmac, narrow useless bars and no suspension no good on rough stuff. OK for Londoners to commute on, I suppose, which is what most of them are used for. A pointless fashion which will die.

[@colec1033]

i am a huge biker and you will never catch me wearing these pathetic spandex getups are you kidding me

[@bigtrout]

I used to think the same. Those shorts, and the fit of them, serve several very useful purposes, especially on long road rides. If you don’t like the look (And who does? I mean, they’re ugly and NO one looks good in them!) then you can wear a pair of Mtn shorts over the top. To each his own.

[@Fonkemman]

MTBs are the do-it-all bikes.

[@envixxsy]

No they aren’t….

[@LordVarkson]

If all you do if go down dirt roller coaster and tell your bros to “shred it”.

[@Realist-m9c]

Gravel bikes…MTBs with hoop handle bars 🤔

[@dantheman6625]

Lighter bikes as well, essentially a road bike with smaller mountain bike tires and sometimes a suspension fork. My lauf gravel bike weighs about 17 pounds and can go anywhere off road

[@slipperyfish7560]

​@dantheman6625 surely an aluminium hardtail would be almost as light? I have an aluminium cyclocross but hate the drop bars, and an alloy hardtail which is great but too heavy, considering selling both and getting an aluminium mtb

[@OMGcat96]

I’m still gonna stick with the fact that they’re silly bikes that nobody really needs now that road bike dropouts are getting wider and wider. In time the gravel bike will fade away I’m sure. The kind of terrain that they’re faster than anything on is very limited in consistency, especially in the uk.

[@darrin2382]

oh dear how the ill-informed spout it all out on social media and make themselves look silly

[@paulgrimshaw8334]

LOL. You use the word “UK” like it’s the centre of the universe. Which it is for op shops, decaying high streets, and fish and chip shops.

[@LordVarkson]

You’re talking about All Road Bikes. Gravel bikes won’t go away, they’ll just get more and more optimised into gravel race and adventure, while the standard choice for sports cyclists will be all road.