Originally Posted by mcrow

I have had one of these for about a month and am pretty impressed with it for the money. You're not riding Unbound on it or anything like that but for someone like me that likes to ride on gravel roads, gravel bike trails...ect this thing actually rocks for the price.

The L-Twoo components aren't as bad as I thought they would be and yeah, stock it's a little heavy. But you get components that work properly and the brakes actually were better than on bikes I have ridden that cost twice as much or more. I have put on about 200 miles of mixed riding so far with zero mechanical issues. Could use more range, could be lighter, could use better brakes but for the money I don't think you can find a better bike to ride on gravel. I would say that Poseidon Ambition X is not really that much better than this bike other than the weight and gearing. I'm not sure that $400 more for the Poseidon is that good of a value. You could just buy a new rear wheel and the microshift advent X components for less than $400 and do the upgrade and if you replace the fork and seatpost you would probably be about the same weight as the Poseidon. So, I think if you can't afford a Poseidon or somethin better than a Poseidon you could buy the G.1 and it will be perfectly functional as a gravel bike out of the box and you can upgrade it as you have money and eventually have something comparable or better than a Poseidon.