Video: Rowdy Roadie Riding with the Industry Nine Team

 Note to self... stick to mountain bikes on PinkBike.

 I admit I do have a gravel bike and it's a great tool for fitness, especially in winter, but I never understand why anyone would ride one in places where a mountain bike is so much more fun.
The potential for traveling further from home faster to explore places maybe ? But surely that's why we have bike racks.

 Road ain't bad ya'll. If you embrace that riding bikes is hard work and learn to enjoy that aspect, which most mountain bikers never do, then you'll come to understand the joy and purpose of road to make you a f*cking nasty MTB'er.

I was you. For over 10 years I was that guy. "Why would anyone EVER ride road when you can ride MTB?!" I was.....that guy. But then I realized:

I like going 60 mph down massive Georgia mountain passes. I like pushing myself into the darkness of the pain cave. That is why many people hate on e-bikes, because we've embrace that riding bikes can be work, and that climbing isn't "hard" when you just embrace it for what it is.

If you're hating on road and gravel, you're just a baby in your bike journey. A close-minded idiot who thinks you know what you're talking about. I can say that, because I've been that close-minded idiot, but now, bikes are bikes. Except for cyclocross, because f*ck cyclocross.

 Where was the rowdy part?
Looked like someone took a cyclocross/gravel bike on done gravel!

Reminded me of being a kid taking my cheap rigida wheels on the the sunday club run back in the 80s. Those wheels lasted for years. Old school bearings and races and we rode 60psi and dad maintained them.

 One of the least inspiring videos I've seen, at the risk of sounding prehistoric- keep the road on the road and the mountain bikes on the dirt.

 I once rode my gravel bike up the switchbacks at our local ski resort (in summer) located directly under the chairlift. People on the chairs hooted and hollered as I grinded up. There was a crowd at the top of the hill waiting for me to ask wtf I was doing. I joined their group and we rode the DH section back down together. We laughed. I felt more rad. It was memorable. This is my story.?!

 The music straight from Doom, should've gone all the way and glory killed some hipsters.

 Bikes, in general, are rad. Some days you just need to get some fitness work in and don't want to deal with cars. Some days it's fun to drift around gravel downhill turns on tires that are suboptimal for the job at hand. Some days you want to cover more ground in a given timeframe. Gravel bikes are fun, just like road bikes and MTBs are fun.

 I never understood, riding skinny tires on trails. And probably laughed and shook my head more than once at the thought. Then I had to relocate to a place without trails in the backyard and being scared shitless about riding with cars, I found myself exploring every ribbon of dirt, deer trail, power line and abandon train tracks, I could find. I would take riding proper trails any day. But riding sketchy tech on skinny tires, while sniffing out trails, still gets the endorphins going. Bikes are bikes, ride what you got and enjoy the piss out of it.

 Owning one of each is the answer, but I must admit that it's fun to hit mild singletrack on my gravel bikepacking bike from time to time. Plowing through rock gardens and launching over small tabletop jumps with drop bars is exhilarating in its own way. Adding custom packs, riding several hundred miles of dirt and gravel, and camping all along the way is also exhilarating in a hundred different ways.

My ultimate goal is to ride from Washington DC to Georgia song the TransVA and TransWNC routes -- which includes a ton of gravel and a healthy dose of Pisgah singletrack. I'm fairly confident that a gravel bike is the right tool for that job, as a loaded trail bike would likely be a nightmare on hundreds of miles of doubletrack and gravel.

Is anyone here suggesting that attempting to tackle Pisgah with drop bars wouldn't be exhilarating af?

 If you've ridden an enduro bike with maybe Magic Mary's a few miles on road, you'll know that they are even worse in that place than road bikes on a rocky descent!
So my personal midpoint when I want to ride to the trails and woods, is a 6 year old Trek Stache, with the original wheels replaced by some Mavic alloy 29ers and Bontrager XR4's. Rolls along ok (not fast but very grippy) on the tarmac and is loads of fun in some steep woods and on the last couple of gravel miles.
Surpising how often the 160mm travel bike stays on the hook and the car in the drive.

 If they'd used a casual/fun song and transitions this video would have made a lot more sense. Lifestyle dropbar riding should never take itself seriously. Honestly think this is the main reason MTBers generally have a bad taste for road riding - bunch of moms and dads thinking they're extreme.

 I.....don't get it. To each their own of course, but I don't really get the marketing behind this one.

 When are we getting a road bike filter ????

 Are they taking the piss?

 Was that Ennis the Menace I saw?

 I have a cyclecross/gravel bike for fitness - that is all it is good for! ha

 This kind of riding I prefer 20/20 alt bars with inner ends on a 2.3-2.4 fast rolling tires on a nearly rigid hardtail 29'er MTB.
It's a lot more MTB fun on downs with similar efficiency than drop bar gravel sketch artists.

 No, just no.

 So is rolling up your tent fly and carrying your gravel bike their video equivalent to our pulling a shot of espresso and adjusting your googles?

 I have to admit, I thought I was going to see Yoann Barelli style gravel riding because of the thumb nail. I should have known better.

 Vomitisly on trend. #hipstersaresheepletoo

 Cyclocross is the root of skinny bikes on dirt. Don't hate on what you don't understand.

 Disclaimer. No IPAs were harmed in the making of this video.