I'm with you, rydabent, but different people define "fun" in different ways.
My son is gearing up to do some gravel road night rides. He's ridden with them once on his hard tail mountain bike. He said they rode 20 - 22 MPH on the flat at night. I built him a wheelset for use with 28 mm tires on his back up road bike. He said to leave the rim strips off because he's planning on going tubeless. Not my idea of fun.
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