shane_3800
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Well I checked the Health & Fitness forums and got to 2016 and there's nothing specific about bicycles so I decided to start a thread.
So I've Ironically started riding my bike I bought while I wasn't allowed to drive and now I'm driving I'm riding it.....
So seeing as I'm still a noob when it comes to bikes I thought maybe there's people that can not only help me but others.
So I have a road bike atm running a Shimano Sora groupset I changed wheels to Shimano R501's with GP5000's and added Dura Ace rim pads to the Sora calipers and it stops good and shifts great.
I'm looking at getting a gravel bike because the crap bike paths and crap roads where I live are taking little nips out of my $70 each tyres, which run awsome btw.
So I've been looking at gravel bikes and don't know if I should go for a 1x or a 2x group set. I'm looking at spending about 2k on my next bike and have seen I can either get Shimano 105, Shimano GRX or the SRAM GRX equivalent (I forget what it's called)
Will stepping down from those groupsets to a cable disc brake be a mistake? Should I go a SRAM 1x 12 groupset? Or should I just get a hard tail moutain bike?
Most of my riding will be on bike paths and proper dirt roads where I will be better using drop bars.
Any insights will be appreciated.
So I've Ironically started riding my bike I bought while I wasn't allowed to drive and now I'm driving I'm riding it.....
So seeing as I'm still a noob when it comes to bikes I thought maybe there's people that can not only help me but others.
So I have a road bike atm running a Shimano Sora groupset I changed wheels to Shimano R501's with GP5000's and added Dura Ace rim pads to the Sora calipers and it stops good and shifts great.
I'm looking at getting a gravel bike because the crap bike paths and crap roads where I live are taking little nips out of my $70 each tyres, which run awsome btw.
So I've been looking at gravel bikes and don't know if I should go for a 1x or a 2x group set. I'm looking at spending about 2k on my next bike and have seen I can either get Shimano 105, Shimano GRX or the SRAM GRX equivalent (I forget what it's called)
Will stepping down from those groupsets to a cable disc brake be a mistake? Should I go a SRAM 1x 12 groupset? Or should I just get a hard tail moutain bike?
Most of my riding will be on bike paths and proper dirt roads where I will be better using drop bars.
Any insights will be appreciated.