Can You Ride Gravel on a Flat Bar Bike?
Channel: Darren Phillips
Date: 2022-08-31

I has seen some gravel rides on Strava, where the rider used a flat bar gravel bike, instead a specifically bought gravel bike. So every time I see my Wife's Specialized Sirrus sat in the shed, I wonder what it could do on gravel. So I messaged Kev and Justin to see if they wanted to join me on a gravel ride, with Kev borrowing my Trek Domane SL5 in it's gravel set up, to see if I could keep up on a 95km Gravel ride. So I threw together a route with some challenging terrain, and set up a Mendip Gravel Adventure. The only thing left, was to see how I got on on the Specialized.

The bike I use in the video is a Specialized X Sirrus 2.0. Which is currently on sale for £529-

The spec:
Its a one by chainset, with 8 gears and a 12-42T and a 40T front ring.
The tyres are 700x42 Pathfinder Sport.


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My Strava  for those wanting to see the routes we ride is
https://www.strava.com/athletes/2357668

The Official Climbs Website for all the climbs I am collecting -https://www.100climbs.co.uk/


My equipment for list for filming :
iPhone 13 Pro(4K enabled)
Bitplay iPhone camera case
Front camera is IPhone 4K 
Shure MV88 microphone
Tascam DR10 Lavalier Microphone
GoPro Hero 9
Insta360 One R


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Personal Instagram is CyclingDarren37

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