Gravel Bikes Advice Required

General cycling advice ( NOT technical ! )
Bonefishblues
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mnichols wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:
mnichols wrote:Love my Camino. Love it Love it Love it....I think I'm going to give it a polish now

You are the lady off Bake Off - The Professionals and I claim my £50



I've never seen Bake-Off, and I'm not a lady, so I don't get the reference, but as it's 50:50 I've decided to take it as a compliment

It's one you either get or you don't, I'm afraid :D
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Bonefishblues wrote:
mnichols wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:You are the lady off Bake Off - The Professionals and I claim my £50



I've never seen Bake-Off, and I'm not a lady, so I don't get the reference, but as it's 50:50 I've decided to take it as a compliment

It's one you either get or you don't, I'm afraid :D

Please enlighten us?
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reohn2 wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:
mnichols wrote:

I've never seen Bake-Off, and I'm not a lady, so I don't get the reference, but as it's 50:50 I've decided to take it as a compliment

It's one you either get or you don't, I'm afraid :D

Please enlighten us?

On that TV programme there is a particularly annoying lady judge who, by and large hates everything she's served up.

Just occasionally though she likes something, and her phrase is always love it, love it, love it.

That's all, really. As I say, you either get it or you don't :D
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The effects of not being able to achieve KOPS by not being able get the saddle far back enough is more pressure on the knees and more weight on the hands,all of which is made worse on anything less than a smooth road,on gravel or rougher surfaces it's just made ten times worse.


Good point. I think you can get extra lay back seat posts to help with that.
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gxaustin wrote:
The effects of not being able to achieve KOPS by not being able get the saddle far back enough is more pressure on the knees and more weight on the hands,all of which is made worse on anything less than a smooth road,on gravel or rougher surfaces it's just made ten times worse.


Good point. I think you can get extra lay back seat posts to help with that.

Yes they're available,I have one.
But if bikes were designed better ordinary layback seatposts would be all that's needed,and as I posted up thread,for anyone who has short thighs an inline seatpost would suffice.
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Yes they're available,I have one.
But if bikes were designed better ordinary layback seatposts would be all that's needed,and as I posted up thread,for anyone who has short thighs an inline seatpost would suffice.


It would be interesting to know why they chose those angles.
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gxaustin wrote:
Yes they're available,I have one.
But if bikes were designed better ordinary layback seatposts would be all that's needed,and as I posted up thread,for anyone who has short thighs an inline seatpost would suffice.


It would be interesting to know why they chose those angles.

Racing?
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We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep.
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Bonefishblues wrote:We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep.

??? I've no idea what that means???
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reohn2 wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep.

??? I've no idea what that means???

It's a lyric. Drop it into Google and you'll understand my answer :wink:

I thought you liked the esoteric these days :D
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Bonefishblues wrote:
reohn2 wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep.

??? I've no idea what that means???

It's a lyric. Drop it into Google and you'll understand my answer :wink:

I thought you liked the esoteric these days :D

Sorry never did like David Bowie so wasn't familiar with any of his lyrics.
Though now I've googled it I understand the post :wink:
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reohn2 wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:
reohn2 wrote:??? I've no idea what that means???

It's a lyric. Drop it into Google and you'll understand my answer :wink:

I thought you liked the esoteric these days :D

Sorry never did like David Bowie so wasn't familiar with any of his lyrics.

I regret to inform you that this is the end of our relationship. We're just incompatible :lol:

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It would be interesting to know why they chose those angles.

Racing?


On a gravel bike?
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Bonefishblues wrote:
reohn2 wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:It's a lyric. Drop it into Google and you'll understand my answer :wink:

I thought you liked the esoteric these days :D

Sorry never did like David Bowie so wasn't familiar with any of his lyrics.

I regret to inform you that this is the end of our relationship. We're just incompatible :lol:

PS
It's not me, it's you!

https://youtu.be/aXtHt8BstCs
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gxaustin wrote:
It would be interesting to know why they cho8se those angles.

Racing?


On a gravel bike?

Exactly!
Edit:-it's all a carry over from road racing,there's a lot of it about :?
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