I don’t have a strong positive reaction to much these days but those handlebars did it. @Memento’s photos are better than the stock website ones. Winspace should use these photos instead.
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Definitely. But only after he’s applied weed killer then power washed his driveway. Maybe a spray of Wet and Forget too.
Aside: I like the well wrapped and hidden SRAM blips (2 sets 
)
Once he’s a sponsored athlete!
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A Crockett was my first “real” bike, and I loved that thing! Force CX1 had just come out and all the rage back then.. 
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I watched the GCN video on Force CX1 and Force 1 on repeat. It’s when I decided if I ever got a drop bar bike, it’d be 1x. Took 7ish more years to make that a reality. 
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@OreoCookie My first 1x build had a Sram x9 rear derailleur. 10 speed, I think. 
We’ve come a long way!
@kjdhawkhill I’m with you on cadence. It’s really hard for me to keep my power up when each shift requires such massive changes in cadence. For road/gravel, I can keep a 1x setup with a 12-speed 11-34 cassette, though, since there isn’t any sustained climbing where I live. 
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I unfortunately also now live somewhere where the terrain is flat like a pancake. Even a 10–33 cassette is overkill. I switched my 42-tooth chainring (which I kept for simplicity) to a 46-tooth chainring, and I prefer the smaller chainring. I thought I’d get the efficiency gains, but now the gears feel a bit weird, I spend more time in the middle of the cassette where the jumps are larger.
When I used to live in the mountains, I had a 10–36 cassette, and that worked quite well. Of course, if at that time a 1x13-speed drivetrain had been an option*, I would have opted for that. The new XPLR drivetrains sound great for all road riding, I’d get rid of the XPLR moniker.
(*) At that time, Rotor and Campagnolo made/make 13-speed drivetrains. But I was advised against a Rotor drivetrain from someone well-known in the cycling industry who was kind enough to reach out of nowhere. Great guy. And I don’t like Campag shifters.
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2022 Orbea Avant H30-D, had a few changes, then converted for “light” gravel & randonneuring.
Olive, named for her frame color, is a bit of an evolving beast. Here she is at the end of a randonneuring mission.
Switched out the brakes, (+ levers & lines) for TRP Spyre SLC dual-sided mechanical. Loving that I’ve been able to dial the pads all the way in for minimal freeplay. Braking power is more than sufficient.
Norco zero-offset seatpost.
Tyres: In this photo, both are Bontrager 35mm, front is GR1, rear is Girona Pro; I also run 32mm road tyres for non-grav rides.
Gearing: Out with the 172.5mm 105 w/ 50/34 & FD, (in for a while with 165mm 105 52/33) & finally now with 165mm GRX w/ 46/26… the 46 is standard GRX, normally paired with a 30 which I swapped out for the 26 from a Deore M5100 set with the X64 BCD pattern. A friend was able to drill the holes in the right spot for the GRX X80 BCD inner. It had to be spaced inward with washers because the GRX 30t has an offset. Front shifting is surprisingly good. Cassette is the stock 11-34 Sunrace 11-sp, meaning I have to dump 3-5 gears at the back when going between chainrings, but I don’t mind.
A number of add-ons for various purposes, especially to permit multiple hours away from drinking water or other supplies. Shout out to @Chris1982 for finding the Rockbros 2L frame bag + Hoser 2L bladder combo; that seems to be the solution that’s worked best so far, & the cheapest. Basically I was trying everything at once (resulting in a bike weighing 19.3kg) & this would be overkill in terms of capacity under most circumstances, but I needed it on the weekend. Green-top bottle on the seat tube is for carbs.
Zipp aero bars & XLAB super wing & torpedo in the photo will probably find their way onto other bikes at some stage. Both XLAB attachments launched bottles at times when negotiating unavoidable potholes. (The course, unbeknownst to me before I started, was definitely not light gravel.)
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I’m digging the variety of water vessels!
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It’s a bit of a mishmash. 
The previous day I had another green-top plastic bottle on the seat, that got launched & broke (I presume it landed on its head).
The day of this photo I went out with the super wing cage empty, & the torpedo got launched (
) by a pothole & emptied its entire contents because I hadn’t yet drunk from it 
but thankfully didn’t break.
Honestly I prefer the steel bottles for plain water but I wasn’t risking them in untested cages. The steel bottle in the down tube was my emergency backup.
I think the ideal solution for me would be a custom jerry can that fills the entire front triangle.
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Just built this “budget” Emonda ALR as a winter training/indoor trainer/burley trailer hauler. Started with a $400 frameset from Wheel and Sprocket outlet, installed my spare R8100 165mm crankset and spent $200 on r7000 shifters and R8000 derailleurs, $65 for direct mount rim calipers, $50 on the BB, cable kit, bar tape and $25 for the TDF GP5000 tires. The Bontrager Race wheels, R8000 cassette, XXX handlebar and Zipp Service Course SL stem were all donated by friends. The seatpost is a temporary one from my wife’s MTB but I’m also being given a free Ritchey WCS carbon post 0 offset.
I originally bought a 2016 CAAD8 for this purpose but never connected with it and missed my old Emonda SL so decided to build this ALR when I found the closeout deal on the frame. I managed to to make a $250 profit flipping the CAAD so helped offset this build down to a net of just under $500
The original CAAD
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It’s really a fantastic bike. I highly recommend it especially for $400.
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To me - this bike was done right and is proportioned perfect. I see your little hidden gems!
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Thanks for the nice feedback…good to know I’m not the only one who appreciates things like that…I’m lucky I can satisfy both the bike fit and the aesthetics 
I jumped on that closeout deal as well. Still gathering the parts but looking forward to getting it out on the road.
Too big for me and I’m not in the Greenville area but nice bikes 
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BMC Roadmachine X which I adore and has become my 1 bike for everything
- upgraded the stock wheels to Roval Terra CL
- added Quarq power meter
- reduced the stock 44T front to 40T, so that the lowest gear is now 40x44 which gets me up most things
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what rims are they? I tried a fast track front and rear and got it fine on the front but the rear would not fit. Also, how does it affect the handling?