Show us the gravel adventure bike you've built!
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Titiritero
Retro Guru
And not a 26", but a 730 Multitrack I "tourified" to cycle with the family from Germany to Spain this summer. In this picture without the 6 panniers and the 6 y-o kid that usually does not feel like helping with the pedaling at all. And below the full convoy after a snack break outside a supermarket in Les Landes...
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dirttorpedo
Senior Retro Guru
I feel these old hybrids make much better touring/gravel bikes. I built up a Miyata Triplecross a few years ago and really liked it, but then I bought a Miyata 1000 and they essentially did the same thing and the touring bike could take gravel tires as well and handle a load better.
Here is a drop bar gravel bike I'm currently building out of an MS Racing Pro Comp XT frame for fun. I like to get my bars waaaay up for these builds - I'm not a flexible 20 something any longer.
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grahame
Senior Retro Guru
My '92 Breezer Sky "gravell-y" bike. A spares box build with Ultegra Brifters, NITTO bars, 600EX chainset and rear derailleur, ESGE Chromoplastic mudguards, Bontrager seatpost, Mavic X517 rims on 732(?) XT rear and WTB New Paradigm front hub and Schwalbe Billy Bonkers tyres (the only things I bought for the build).
This turned an almost unused MTB from the back of the stash into a regularly ridden commuter/do (almost) anything bike.
It was also both the first and last bike I rode with the late John Stevenson - a demo bike that I borrowed for my first ride with Team Xtreme, and (having bought it used and converted it to this spec) on a ride out to get coffee and cake the day before his cancer surgery that didn't quite work.
This turned an almost unused MTB from the back of the stash into a regularly ridden commuter/do (almost) anything bike.
It was also both the first and last bike I rode with the late John Stevenson - a demo bike that I borrowed for my first ride with Team Xtreme, and (having bought it used and converted it to this spec) on a ride out to get coffee and cake the day before his cancer surgery that didn't quite work.
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