Quote from: frnchy on August 09, 2024, 01:09:15 PM
I have an SPCycle G068 frame coming in soon to build into basically this exact bike. I'll be running a 700c x 32 mm road wheelset and 650b x 52-ish mm gravel wheelset. The frame should be arriving sometime in the next month and will be built up right after I get it, so check the thread for that frame soon.

More generally, I think the prior suggestions for an Aspero copy or all-road bike are good ones if your riding is like 70/30 road/gravel or less, and has a fairly consistent ratio of road to gravel. My riding is more like 40/60 overall, but for any individual ride I can get anywhere from a 50/50 to 10/90 split on surface type (well, 100% road rides aren't hard to achieve but they aren't very appealing); thus, two wheelsets makes sense for my use case where I can choose my riding surface of choice. If this sounds similar to your riding then it might be worth looking into a 2 wheelset solution on a frame with larger tire clearance.

Very nice! This is the bike I am looking to go with next, please let me know how you find the tire clearance... I'm currently on a drop bar Epic HT with 2.2" Racekings. I'll likely keep the front tire, but go tanwall pathfinder 47 in the rear.

Shopping cart is loaded for the sales, total before discount is $2100 with two sets of wheels, I may choose to do only one set though as I am not sure how much pure road I would be doing...
For the bar I went for a syncros creston not sure about gravel or road version though. I look at cheaper options but couldn't find anything really inspiring, so open to suggestions

Quote from: Ludo on August 16, 2024, 10:18:11 AM
Well you sold it, discussing colors with them...

Can confirm the G056 is fast as hell. I have beat the crap out of it on single track and rocky fire roads and getting PRs on segments I set before covid on the road with the SuperSix I had. FWIW I have Spech Sawtooth tires and a Force AXS compact 2x chainset so I find myself spinning out down hill around 70KPH. This was on a hill with 4% avg and it felt very stable at speed ( https://www.strava.com/segments/25290783 ). It would be even faster on something steep. I love the bike but it IS a size too big for me as I am 6' and SHOULD have bought the medium.

I am 6 too and they advise large.

Quote from: Ludo on August 18, 2024, 06:00:37 AM
I am 6 too and they advise large.

I am 187cm and ride large with 110 -17 stem

Hmmm, maybe medium wouldn't be a bad choice then, because your drop is not crazy. First road frame for me, only be on mtb so it's really a shit in the dark

Quote from: Ludo on August 18, 2024, 08:47:04 AM
Hmmm, maybe medium wouldn't be a bad choice then, because your drop is not crazy. First road frame for me, only be on mtb so it's really a shit in the dark

I run saddle at 76 cm. so pretty low for my height

  For my fit the large is too big. The bike feels to be around a 58 to 59 cm and on my pure road bikes a 56 with a 100 stem is more comfortable. I find when I get my setback right I am too stretched out and with the seat more forward there is too much forward weight and this is with a 90 mm stem/42cm bar combo. I have about 2000 km on the bike now and the bar tape is already worn on the bends of the bar. I think with a 80mm stem length the bike would be about perfect for me and handle even better for off road technical riding. Included a shot from the side to show my set up of the g056 with a 90mm stem but saddle about 1/2 cm too far forward for me. Saddle is a Prologo Scratch Pro standard length. Balance is not perfect but acceptable.

Well the wheel/cassette combination is proving tricky! Mtb cassettes are MS, elite wheels or CSC seem to offer only the road spline for the 700C wheels as I am looking for 45-50mm depth rim. I have question waiting answers to both of them and Yuanan, we'll see

Quote from: Ludo on August 20, 2024, 06:07:29 AM
Well the wheel/cassette combination is proving tricky! Mtb cassettes are MS, elite wheels or CSC seem to offer only the road spline for the 700C wheels as I am looking for 45-50mm depth rim. I have question waiting answers to both of them and Yuanan, we'll see

Why don't you just buy HG cassette if finding suitable wheels with MS is tricky?

That's what I will end up doing but didn't find any trusted HG in 10/11 - 40/45 12s  so far

Well, everything is ordered, now just need patience for everything to show up! Thanks guys for your help.
I will put together the build sheet either in top of that thread if I can retitle it or in a build thread, definitely not the budget build it was supposed to be...

1st post updated with build list

Is the G058 frame very similar to the CWinds G30 frame? I'm in the process of ordering a frame and building a gravel bike as well. I'm new to all this, will be my first gravel bike.

Quote from: Phaxe on August 09, 2024, 06:31:51 AM
I just finished the cervelo clone build and I think it would make a great hybrid. It has a an aggressive aero position perfect for the road.

What frame is that? It's a clone of the Cervélo?