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Cinelli brought gravel bikes, squarely in the sub 3K sweet spot Ritchey and Canyon sit in:
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Funny enough, all the kids were completely uninterested; the Red Hook Crit fixie was the star of the booth.
 

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We had NAHBS in town this past February (the only reason I attended), many of these same bikes were present. More and more with the bike industry (as with the ski industry), I feel they are just reinventing the wheel so to speak or bringing back something from the past. This is pure consumerism rather than genuine improvement in many cases.

They can't sell you something you already have! I was genuinely bored in about an hour.
 

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I hate 1x for one simple reason: with 2x on a rolling hill I can achieve the gear I need with 2 shifts back smaller front smaller whereas I need 4 or 5 shifts on a 1x. But I REALLY hate compact double like 50/34 because it is effectively like having two 1x side by side. You can't get a good standing gear and you can't do a CX type saddle hover. I'll take classic road, I'll take a touring triple, I'll take MTB triple but man oh man I despise compact double.


A lot of it has to do with where you ride of course. And what you select for a rear cassette. I really have no use for much for a gear over 100 inches. If that is spun out I'll simply coast and like it! I've been doing 44/28 with modern 12-34 cogs and liking that for all-road/gravel type cycling. I live in a pretty hilly area with a good mix of rural backroads and dirt roads so this gearing works well here. Oh, and you left out the old standard, half-step plus granny, I still find that very effective too.
 
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Oh, and you left out the old standard, half-step plus granny, I still find that very effective too.

This ride is one of the reasons I hate 1x
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Shifting the back by 4 or 5 cogs every 1/4 mile is for the birds. By the time you find the climbing gear the hill is over.
 

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Amazingly, there appeared to be more goodness here than at Interbike.
 

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How could one not love Italian bikes? Craft vs. mechanization.

I don't ride one but maybe soon.
 
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More leather pressure relief saddles, this time from Rivet.
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Not all leather saddles are created equal, Rivet rivet their saddles into a polymer bolster, but then they also rivet the bottom to control lateral tension.
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Lighter, tighter saddle overall and a different feel than the BUILT Selle Anatomica
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Oh yeah they do grips and mudflaps too
 
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And in case you really get bored, there's always an amazingly simple and logical wheelbuilding demo by Jessica Broussard
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Rotor had a monster booth, star of the show was an Allied frame built with Q rotors And hydraulic shifting And hydraulic rim brakes - because people love to see their pedaling forces on screen.
Unfortunately Allied did not have a booth.
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The parts:
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Rear derailleur:
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Magura hydraulic rim brake
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Honestly those calipers were more exciting than the rotors and cranks,
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The Allied itself:
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This bike over at the Altruiste booth made me think of @epic s thing about Leftys

A growing daughter bike with a shortened shock, run at ridiculous low shock pressure, made possible by bearings instead of bushings.
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