Ideally if I had any guts I would have been riding around Metro Manila already, and probably going on some long trips to the nearby provinces. However since I'm still too scared to consistently ride outside the village, I will have to keep blogging about stuff I wish I could have on my bike,
Today's setup is still based around a gravel bike. Ideally a frame built for bikepacking, meaning it has mounting points galore. Steel sadly is not the preferred material, maybe aluminum. Slightly lighter to offset more weight for other components. Something like the Canyon Grizl AL. Now whatever happened to other dream gravel bike, the Kona Jake? Well, the Grizl looks like it was actually designed for long rides with all the mounting points.
The groupset will still be 1x, most likely similar to my 42T chainring with either an 11-42 cassette or 11-46 cassette if ever I do end up going on climbs with a loaded bike.
Brakes will still be the hybrid cable actuated, hydraulic brake calipers. Of course we will be going with more well known and hopefully better brands.
For the wheels honestly I'd rather have tubed wheels as long as they're Tubolito Tubo-CX/Gravel-All. It's getting annoying and sort of costly to be refilling my tubeless tires with sealant every two to three months, and I'm seriously considering not buying more sealant and just using the two inner tubes I got once I finish all remaining sealant. Aside from having an inner tube, I think I'll be happy with thinner 35mm gravel tires. I like my Panaracer Gravel King SS tires, but also wouldn't mind slightly more knobbly tires since in "this timeline" I'm riding on long rides and possibly rough roads.
Additionally I'd want the front wheel to have a dynamo hub that can power front and rear lights, as well as hopefully charge a USB powerbank so that I can recharge other stuff with said powerbank. I'm choosing Shimano's DH-UR700 because I read on this article from Cycling About how that specific hub had the most power output at speeds between 5kmh and 15kmh. Knowing that dynamo hubs do slow you down, and knowing how my pace is I won't be surprise if that is the range of speed I'll be averaging on long rides while the hub is being used.
To round things off I would also want some old school looking fenders/mud guards for my bike. Something that looks like this set from Velo Orange. Then to round things off a bike fork mounted headlamp from Busch + Muller like the MYC, and of course Busch + Muller dynamo rear lights.
Of course I'd still need a bike rear mounted rack and bags but those are things I can choose to remove from the bike or not. The things I wrote above are things that would always be on my bike.
Out.
