Appreciation post for my "Gravel" build last year. This bike got me through a few gravel races and my first CX season. I've since built 'er back up to the 26" glory because I needed a CX bike that actually liked to turn at slow speeds. This bike hated doing that. But man, it was fast going straight for a few hours.
by chantsofrain
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the fork makes this build so gangsta
This goes hard. Are those 700c wheels on a 26” frame? How did you get the brakes to fit?
I have many questions!!
This is giving me some bad ideas. What a build!
Did this frame come with a 1 and 1/8th headtube? or did you use an adapter?
Really inspiring build man looks dope.
Oh shit, I love that this was your entry level cross bike. Run whacha brung, indeed. Interesting that you fit 700c wheels. In a [somewhat similar project](https://www.reddit.com/r/xbiking/comments/1ijjo5s/bridgestone_mb3_conversion/), I put 650b wheels on, and noticed what you did, that the bike felt a lot less steep and quick than it did with 26″ wheels (though not unpleasantly so). Which is weird, in that the frame hasn’t changed, the head tube angle is the same, so the bike isn’t any slacker than it used to be. But it certainly feels slacker. I think it may come down to an increase in trail on the fork due to the larger diameter wheels, possibly.
The stack / reach on MTBs with drop bars is diabolical.
Looks like a pursuit bike.
That BB – which is high anyway on a mountain bike – is gonna be real high with road wheels
I love it when we go far from marketing propaganda! fun biking ftw!
I knew it! Gravel bikes really are turning into old mountain bikes, or uhh, vice versa.
I recently did a restomod on an older Specialized Stumpjumper that I have been debating about converting to a drop bar bike, but its just a bit too small.