Do you ever end up questioning whether or not you should purchase a gravel bike or a street bike?
In that case, it is because the bicycle business and media have perpetuated the concept that “street” and “gravel” are someway two various things that warrant two fully totally different bicycles, type of like how Subway® discovered they might simply put the contents of a sandwich in a bowl and promote it as a very totally different menu merchandise.
See, nowadays there’s a significant backlash towards bread, similar to there’s a backlash towards bikes with minimal tire clearance, so if you concentrate on it the protein bowl is principally the gravel bike of ready lunches:
[I asked the AI to generate an image based on the phrase “Keto Is The New Gravel” and this is what I got. Delicious!]
And let’s not overlook that this present fixation with bowls comes after everybody had lengthy been providing wraps, the unique alt lunch:
That is like within the days earlier than gravel when all of the bike corporations began making a giant deal about providing street bikes with barely taller headtubes:
So on this sense the wrap was the endurance street bike of sandwiches.
Thankfully if you happen to’re in search of a “do-it-all” bike within the archetypal street bike silhouette that’s fairly sporting and but additionally imbued with all of the consolation and flexibility the spoiled fashionable bike client calls for, you don’t have to go to a sequence restaurant and order by quantity, you’ll be able to simply get certainly one of these:
Which I point out as a result of I occurred to note the next within the newest Rivendell e-newsletter:
As all the time, I’ll stress that Rivendell didn’t ask me to share this data. Actually, they by no means ask me to share something, except my current story concerning the new derailleur, which they did supply me the chance to cowl, and which I proceeded to botch. No, I point out it solely as a result of I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS BICYCLE so I wished to let you realize that if you happen to’re concerned about proudly owning one too now’s your likelihood. You’ll not remorse it, except you do.
Talking of drop bars and the social assemble that’s bikes becoming neatly into extremely particular classes, apparently folks have been upset about riders utilizing mountain bikes with drop bars at Leadville or one thing:
Is that this true, have been folks actually offended by this? In that case, we are able to safely assume that they have been mountain bikers, who we’ve firmly established are absolutely the worst. The worst, Jerry:
As for Leadville, I assume it’s now simply one other product of Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. [LTH -1895%], however I’ll all the time consider it as that race Fats Bicycle owner was obsessive about:
And that Lance Armstrong determined to win in 2009 as a result of he was disenchanted together with his Tour de France outcome:
As for whether or not The Life Time Grand Prix℠ is the Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. [CMG +29998%] of motorbike race collection, I can’t say for certain, however I actually wouldn’t rule it out.
