Thanks for the comment on the Lauf fork. I am going to try an see if I can demo one somewhere since I’ve had a number of people tell me it really is a great bike/fork
Don’t worry about the seat post clamp. Use carbon paste and a Torque wrench and it’ll be fine forever.
All great choices. One thing to be sure you have thought through - whether the frameset, particularly the chainstays, will work with whatever power meter and crankset you plan on using, or what your options will be with the frameset you are set on. Things are not always “plug and play” in this category. I recently bought and built up a Lynskey GR270 with 1x GRX, and am very happy with it - BUT there is insufficient space to run a Stages L crankarm mounted PM on the frame - the gap is a millimeter too narrow to allow the pod to pass the stay - which would have been my first choice. I’ll end up spending hundreds more on some other PM setup. Some other frames have issues if you’d ever run 46/30 crankset, etc. Ask around about your intended setup - somebody will probably have tried it or be running it. The tradeoff of all the different ways the various mfrs have worked out rear geometry to accomodate wide tires - other widgets might not fit.
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I’ve run into similar issues on my Domane and I hear the checkpoint has this problem as well. Drive side is mandatory.
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I’m building a gravel bike that will double as my winter/bad weather rig. Why should I go 46/36 on a 2X when a compact 50/34 provides more on both the lower & upper ends?
TIA,
Brad
You probably shouldn’t. That 46/36 is cyclocross gearing, and based on my use, not ideal for gravel. The 10t gap is kinda nice, but also bad at the same time. It’s not enough change if you are really dealing with larger changes in pitch. That tighter shift is really meant for a different purpose than we use a front shift for in gravel. 50/34 is superior, if those are your only two choices, IMHO.
Gravel gearing can get far more interesting if you are shopping and not using just those two examples. I had those and even considered setting up a 46/34 mixed setup. But I found the 46 a bit low for use on some of the paved and smooth dirt stuff I use. So 50/34 ruled for me until my new bike with the GRX gravel focused gearing 48/31.
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Anyone on here use a Canyon Grail?
If so … opinions?
