Converting Retrobikes into gravel rigs.

[Titiritero]

I'm currently overhauling a '93 Trek 750, and will put drop bars on it, which for many counts already as "gravel conversion". I'll post when finished. However, since gravel bikes have been already around for a while, used ones start to pop up in my local classifieds for about the same price a nice conversion would cost, so it might no longer be cost effective (outside of the fun doing it).

And side-related to the AI topic, have you noticed lately a lot of scam websites stealing pictures (from forums like this, blogs, reddit) and making an "online shop" out of it?. Before, if I wanted to check examples of "gravel conversions" I would just type that in Google and look at the images. Now, most direct me to some random website with dodgy domain name where a lot of "gravel conversions" are "available for sale" at very low prices.

 

[Jonny69]

I 'built' this 'rig' in 2020 to do the local paths with my lad on the back, but it's back wearing riser bars these days.

Post in thread 'Rude lunchtime Rudy Project'

Apr 10, 2022

Wheel upgrade and a rebuild yesterday. Winter this year seemed to take its toll and rotted all the spokes. The old wheels were running badly out of true, but the spokes were so rotten they would have snapped if I’d tightened them. Figuring I’d struggle to find the time to re-spoke them, I decided to just buy another set of wheels. These turned up on here, right sort of thing, right time etc.

The whole bike was looking a bit worse for wear tbh. The chain was looking equally rotten, cables all attacked by salt and the rear brake jamming on. Partially my fault because I’d just been riding...

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