The Best Comfort Upgrades for Gravel Bikes | Unbound Gravel Prep | TPC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- No matter how fit you are, sitting on a bike for half a day or more hurts! Riding the rough and chunky gravel at Unbound can hurt A LOT. Bruce has been testing components like bar tape, carbon handlebars, suspension stems, suspension forks, suspension seatposts, and 3D-printed saddles that increase comfort. He shows us the best parts that can cushion your hands, back, and butt for long hours on the gravel bike.
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0:00 Dude, stop crashing so much…
1:48 Sort your tires and tire pressure first!
2:26 Carbon gravel handlebars kill road buzz
4:40 Cushy bar tape is the ultimate cheap upgrade
5:53 Suspension stems aren’t as silly as I thought
7:52 The Lauf Grit SL is my favorite gravel fork
8:48 I hate how much I love the eeSilk+ seatpost
10:37 3D-printed Mirror saddles are seriously good
11:33 Mimic saddles are cheaper and super comfy
12:42 One weird trick to dial in your bike fit
9:45 The best drip lube option - กีฬา
Rudy and the special Canyon seat post plus tubeless with 45 mill tires made my Grizl really comfortable.
Big tires at low pressure and Redshift stem made all the difference for my Stormchaser
That's my combo.
I am trying the uswe stubb gloves to see if those offer more comfort as well
Good informative video. I need all the comfort I can get too.
By the time you pay for a suspension stem and carbon bars it’s more $$ than an air suspension fork. And while the suspension fork weighs more it’ll be worlds more plush than the stem and bars combo.
On those stems, they only really compress when you’re on the hoods. Because the travel moves in an arch, when the weight is furthest from the pivot is when it compresses. Otherwise if your hands are on the top of the bars there’s little to zero stem compression. A suspension stem that has a parallelogram kinematic will compress no matter where your hands are. Such as the Kinect stem. But is also very expensive. A Chinese branded stem called Meroca is the same and a fraction of the cost. Heck they might even be the company that makes them for Kinect 😂
That seat looks great with the different density padding. Points of contact are the important places to reduce body trauma. All the little impacts over time and miles of riding add up. Anything to reduce those impacts makes a huge improvement that’ll reduce the aches and pains as we age
Those s suspension posts are nice but I think are way expensive. I use a telescopic suspension post with 40mm travel. It’s super comfortable and only costs $30 on Amazon. Some say these change your leg length as it compresses. But those parallelogram posts also change your effective leg length but in a different path. I’ve not noticed any pedaling changes with my cheap Amazon post
Front suspension, but real suspension with damping and rebound adjustments, not simply bouncy gimmicks. Perhaps the Niner MCR full suspension gravel bike? It's not like you're not going to win so might as well be comfortable.
I feel that the lockout on suspension stems is important and best used when climbing out of the saddle, so as not to bounce on your cockpit. It's really annoying, haha.
Sleepy peepy lmao haven't heard that one yet!
Good stuff! 🫡
FIRST.
Straight handlebars. Obviously.
The best comfort upgrade is a full suspension mtb
Agreed - you'd be dropped early, though.
bet youre the guy who races DH bikes on road and gravel races
Yep,if you like riding a boat anchor.
Bike frame is too big. Look at the seatpost height
The best upgrade is a mountain bike so called gravel bikes are mediocre at best
For starters maybe you just buy the right size bike. I don’t get what’s the obsession with kids size bike. Low headset for aero? WTF! 🤦♂️