Gravel bike conversion?

[steveindenmark]

I think the point was you don't need carbon rims on any gravel bike.

I'd avoid Hunt, they are a triumph of marketing over function.

I disagree. I have had 2 sets for about 8 years. I have ridden thousands of km on them, never touched them and they are great.

 

[StuAff]

The ATR makes a better endurance bike than the GTD does a gravel bike. 34mm max tyre clearance or 45mm (on 700C, and that's official figures so some wider rubber may fit…)….no contest. And wider road tyre options like the 40mm Pirelli recently launched are an option too. Without contravening the n+1 rule, if it was one or the other…ATR every time.

 

[StuAff]

Years ago when I was a mere grasshopper if you wanted to ride down a gravel track , canal path , halfway up a mountain, or across the world you went on your trusty ol' steel Dawes Galaxy and then on a Monday you rode it to work.... Oh those were the days

'Can' is not 'should', and if the likes of Jobst Brandt or Tom Ritchey had better options (or weren't working on them) they'd have used them....