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Buying a new bike in the future will be really simple for me after buying a Cypher a few years back. I'll just buy whatever Titan I can justify at the time.

Thanks for this. Really insightful.

Definitely, those 2 year old 29er dual suspensions are not safe on the same roads and trails that were perfectly fine on 26 inch GT Zaskars with 71° head angles.

The blurb is actually restrained and to the point. Nothing like the stuff Specialized puts out which must take a piece of the authors dignity and soul with it.

Broker all the way.

The brain was a XC specific solution (and fair to say a proven one) that somehow found it's way onto the marathon scene. I imagine in a XC race it's helpfull not to deal with locking out or forgetting to unlock. For a marathon you can decide this is a long hill and have the smoother suspension going down.

This is 1000x better looking than the Diverge STR.

That is a very sensible decision made all the more sensible by not being boring. I had a rare limited edition Ford Sierra 3.0i RS as my uncle was a clay modeler working at the factory. Now none of the other students thought the car was special but every painter in town was in awe and wanted to buy it from me.

I sommer feel like taking a leave day at work today to go and test that bailing twine vacuum bag move. Sounds like a brilliant idea.

There was a guy in my first year who had a Ford Fairlane. Coolest car in res by a mile.

If somebody doesn't like that bike they can't be helped.

When so much power is currently coming from burning diesel, the daytime only isn't a drawback. Eskom can save the diesel for the evenings.

I don't really understand the appeal of the top of the range models. The ~R80k models also have carbon wheels, AXS, SID etc. It is really are getting into marginal gains territory that will make close to zero difference in the experience. And the bike industry will find a way to make both obsolete in 3 years.

A gravel bike is something I've looked at on and off as the thing to get me into cycle again after a few years off as my girls are moving into the toddler stage. I don't feel the road is safe anymore and technical MTB isn't really for me. A voice in the back of my head always said this isn't going to work for my area (Rural Karoo). Then I read the Rhino Run articles here and I realized what would work for me. Benkenstein was running 29 x 2.4s and Zeinab said: The main thing I would change would be to use wider tyres. I had never really ridden gravel before the event so I assumed 48mm tyres would be enough. If I could go back I would use the biggest tyre I could get my hands on. So if I ever get a gravel a bike I will skip the 'current' gravel tyres and go straight to something like the Curve Big Kev.

But as rightly pointed out you need to put the same tyres on both before you even know the difference. That is why Giant etc don't publish weights.