It was a shakedown ride for a longer ride that I needed that many bottles for 2 legs that to get to the next stop without running out. Turned out to be a great shakedown for finding problems with my set up, my back water bottle holders were so tight I had to stop to pull the bottles out, couldn't do it while riding. I also decided to ditch the bar mounted bottle and just stick one in my jersey pocket.

Love it. Here's my commuter, 2018 Rove DL. Just picked it up a couple weeks ago but haven't had a chance to do much or ride it on account of the bad weather.

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2018 Giant Toughroad GX 1- planning on a Mickelson Trail ride this May. Just finished the color change from stock black and blue to my favorite color. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...24726a45e.jpeg

My GX1

nice

Been working on a drop bar fat bike and I ended up neglecting my gravel bike. Upgraded to 2 inch G-One Speed tires so now it's more of a fat tire road bike :D

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My recently acquired 2019 Specialized Diverge.

Upgraded the tires, and installed a 36t chainring and an E-thirteen 9-46 cassette.

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San Francisco Bay trail near San Mateo bridge
 

Just got my Trek Checkpoint SL6 on Wed, Thurs. it rained no rain on Friday to I headed out and took in some local gravel. Damn cold and windy but lots of fun, and handles gravel and mud quite well.
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Lookin good is what's most important!

Dang, Tim - where you headed?

Been working on this for past 3 weeks and now I'm done. Ended up taking the whole bike apart and redoing all the cable routing with foam sleeves while routing the dropper. Hopefully the trails will be good to go this weekend from all the rain we got couple weeks ago.

https://i.imgur.com/nc4GGA5.jpg

^^OMG!
Gravel bike with dropper post and suspension fork. All you need are flat bars and it'll be a 29r XC bike!

I picked up a sale price demo Chris Cross from Fat Chance. I've had my eye on these since they were first intro'd, love the tapered head tube. I've only done the one quick shakedown ride on it but it seems a fun, lively little bike! Features 650bX48 Compass tires.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...8e5a63b48c.jpg

Updated...

New wheels from ProWheelBuilder.com including Terra i22C rims, Industry 9 Torch hubs.
Absolute Black 46-30 chainrings.
Shimano SC-M8000 XT 11-42 mountain bike cassette.
New rotors. Hope RX4 calipers are on order.

Low gear is now 19.6 inches. :)

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-Tim-

Tim, you will have to let us know how you like those new wheels compared to your old ones…

I really can't say the American Classic RACE 29 wheels were great.

Yes, they were light and 32 spokes held them together pretty well. In fact, I think the fact that they were 32 spoke is what made them last as long as they did. The hub was bad from the factory and the front seal design was such that the bearings dried out very quickly. Then there was the whole interoperability issue with tires blowing off the rim. 3200 miles and they are ready to be retired.

I've only ridden the new wheels around the subdivision. They are almost as light as the AC wheels. I9 hubs are LOUD!



-Tim-

Not much, but it's exactly what I wanted. Won't win any awards, KOMs, or style points. Bone stock Cannondale Topstone Sora. Red pedals won't be staying, waiting on my black Crank Bros to come in.
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Wow, my experience with the AC Races couldn't be any more opposite. They've been nothing short of bombproof.

The only bike I have now, finally retired my trusty Roubaix Sl3

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Rawland xSogn with Zepto Handlebar Bag

This is my Rawland xSogn low trail 650b gravel bike. I don't know if I will ever be able to ride a non-low trail bike again.