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I understand this one comes with carbon hoops, looks like in-house / generic ones.

Thanks, will definitely check for that on my test ride, it's not something I though of. Point taken on resale value. Although at around 39K (discounted from R55K-ish retail) if I get a season or two of good riding out of it I would not mind too much about selling at a loss.

Did a comparison of models available to me locally - need to pull in the Cube as well, it's a great looking bike. Titan does seem like fantastic value at the price point.

My LBS sent me pics, looks like the Burts fit, will just need to swing past and check *exactly* how much clearance there is.

Good Morning All, Long time listener, first time caller. I've been in the market for a gravel bike for a while. My LBS sells Cube, Trek and Titan Racing. I have a budget of around 60K. I am from Namibia for what that's worth. I noticed recently that Titan Racing has released a new model switch and subsequently there are some serious discounts on the outgoing model. For example the Switch Carbon Elite can be had for around 40K. I guess my question would be, are there any significant drawbacks to buying the older platform. Gravel seemed to have evolved like crazy over the last couple of years. My requirements are fairly simple. Primarily racing focused with most races here being around 150km and then there's the 401km Desert Dash every year. Not too concerned about mounts for bike packing. Suspension is also not important, I think for rides that rough I'll just take my FS MTB. Would want to fit at least 2.1" MTB tyres. Last question would be, how would the "older" Switch compare against the newest offering from Cube and Trek in the 60K price bracket? Thanks and I look forward to the responses!

The Namibian MTB XC season kicked off with a race at Okapuka ranch just outside Windhoek. Namibia has been suffering from a terrible drought for the last couple of years, so the very good rains of the last two weeks was so welcome. Made for a very muddy and sticky race!

I do - I have different FTP's on the trainer and on my MTB. The ease of doing this with intervals.icu was one of the major reasons I moved away from the Elevate add-in for Chrome.