Still loving my T5g after nearly 9 years

I guess maybe it was a midlife crisis bike? Better than a corvette i suppose… I still love this bike. Original Litespeed T5g, bought new around 2016. Still fits me great and the ride is perfect Ti feeling. SRAM force mechanical 11 speed, 11-36 in back, hydraulic brakes. Two sets of wheels for easy road-to-dirt swaps. I don’t do any crazy technical gravel so this is good for me.

By today’s standards, the geometry and clearance would just be a ‘road bike’ or maybe an ‘endurance bike’, but I have a 42mm challenger gravel grinder in front and a 40mm gravine in back with ‘enough’ clearance.

I’ll probably look into a newer gravel bike in the next few years to try out the 50mm/2 inch tire fun, but I have zero regrets on this bike.