GRAVEL BIKE GUILT

I have a road bike. I used to ride it. I road it in full lycra with some shiny red shoes. I probably looked like a dick, I did not overly think about it, it was just the norm. Other things that were the norm. Attacked by cars, unable to stop the dam thing, punctures, sore hands, sore arse. 

It now sits in the cellar gathering dust, in winter it has seem so roller action, but got damn that is seriously boring. I ride to see and experience, I know the fitter you are the more fun you have but I am not un-fit so hammering relentless miles on a road that goes know here is fucking dull. Anyway I as always digress - I do not as yet have an editor. So the carbon road bike with its race 23c tires is going to finally do something meaningful since I last road on a road. Its going to make me some money, well maybe not make as technically I did pay for it but it was so long ago it definitely does not count. 

And why is all this relevant, like loads of other bike obsessives you are not a really a bike guy if you don’t have a gravel bike to ride before you chug you IPA. 

I miss getting somewhere quick, the feeling of translated power and maybe most of all I miss the low maintenance milage, something my XX1, Kashima covered YETI does not believe exists.

A gravel bike seems to do a great job of being a comfortable safe and maybe even fun mile muncher while saving the SB6 the constant trips to the bike shop (I actually wrote hospital first time without thinking)

I love the look of a Ti frame with a carbon fork but also appreciate the clean lines and good price of a carbon bike.