Gunnar All-Road Bike

In my opinion, the era for having multiple drop bar bikes with different tire sizes is over. The bike industry doesn't want you to hear this, but you only need one road bike. This bike was my interpretation of the one bike.

Gunnar, custom.

This was built on my custom geometry and criteria by Waterford/Gunnar shortly before they closed the Wisconsin factory.

The tires shown are 44c Rene Herse Snoqualmie Pass, and they are amazing. Almost slick, just a subtle file, and very light and smooth casing. This frame fits 2.0", or 50c tires, but the 44c just looks and rides perfect. This thing gets up to speed and just holds, floating at 24mph like a hovercraft.

The chain stays are 450mm long. This provides stability on our 50mph mountain descents. There's no tight corners, like CX, on road bikes. Why do all our bikes have such short chain stays? Shit, when I lived in the Midwest, I could ride 100 miles without even making a single turn. Additionally, and perhaps even more importantly, these long stays make the chain line substantially better, and allow the rider to fully cross chain with a totally silent and smooth drivetrain that experiencs less lateral wear. These long chain stays improve the user experience.

I still should trim the steer tube. I have the bars slammed, and it's still comfortable enough for multiple days without sleep style events.
The third bottle cage adds to the endurance capabilities.

I'm not going to lie, aesthetics were important to me. I wanted the lines, cable routing, and top tube slope to all be both classy and classic. The midnight blue to black paint fade, with subtle stealth "Gunnar" down tube paint pull you in.

I still love 2x drivetrains for a few reasons. I love a tighter cassette. I love the aesthetics on a bike with classic aesthetics. I love spreading the wear between multiple rings.

Thanks for reading. I'll see you at the top of random Colorado mountain passes.