This 
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I’m in an absolute warren researching and looking for a frame or used complete bike. Constantly on Geometry Geeks. One of the plethora of options might be one the many Ribble CGR SL frames on fleabay, and getting it resprayed. The integrated Level cockpit looks pretty cool too. Says 45mm max clearance, but would be interested to know if in the dry a 50 could be shoe-horned in. Fine with something slimmer if the ground is softer.
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Gralloch Ultra 2027 hasn’t opened for entries yet (the other Gralloch races have). This year (last weekend in fact) was the first running of the ultra and it seemed to get good reports. I was up there doing the Sportive on the Sunday and it’s all very well organized, much more of a big event feel than Glorious Gravel (who incidentally have cancelled the longest version of the Wild Westie for this year)
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Thanks Rob. Is the Sportive the same 110km route as the race? Not worth the travel for me, it would need to be something a bit longer. Not bothered about the UCI qual, as it’s just a cheaper version of qualifying for Kona…unless they host the WC outside Europe!
I will keep my eyes peeled on my inbox.
I watched a couple of Ruth Astle videos on YT; she’s not had a good year so far. DNF’d both Dales Divide and Gralloch Ultra early on. In fact she DNF’d the Tenby video I saw too!
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But a pig to work on. And headset bearings often need changing.
I have never checked geometry.
Just buy a damn bike.
Has she switched to gravel now or is it a side thing?
It’s a bike, not a bottle of ketchup.
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Hmm…a bike goes forwards if you pedal it. Just buy a bike!!!
If you ever got to your destination, you’d realise it’s about the journey.
(you make this too easy )
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Maybe if you spent more time choosing your bike you’d spend less time on here moaning about all the things wrong with it! 
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Bikes I have ever owned versus bikes I’ve moaned about on here?
That Orro was dog shit. Just not up to what it was designed for.
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Which Zipp wheels did you have a lot of trouble with?
None, IIRC.
all of my tub ones were no issue, the 404FCs on my roadbike have been fine.
My 303 on the gravel bike are now on their THIRD set of wheel bearings. Which are a BITCH to remove. The freehub body is also now made from cheese, but this is just the enshittification of everything that we now have to endure 
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It was the 303s then!
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Ergo, not a bike 
Curious. If you had one bike for all and it was a gravel bike, what shoes/pedals do you default to?
Road shoes/ pedals or mtb shoes/SPD? or swap over depending on the ride?
I use road set-up this time of year; only SPDs if it’s fairly muddy.
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Shouldn’t have looked at this thread. Now that Specialized has launched the 5th gen of the Crux, I’m getting drawn to a gravel bike again. There are some heavily discounted bikes and combined with the cycle to work scheme they appear to be bargains.
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I was looking at the Gloria gravel site yesterday. How are you finding yours now that you’ve had it a while? (yours is a road bike, right?)