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Jason Miles AGGREGATED NONSENSE

I’ve been reviewing some components in the past few weeks.

It seems a bit strange, going outside to mess about – not exercising, not working and most definitely not essentialtravelling – but at least I’m lucky that where I live I can go outside for several hours and see more deer, birds of prey and goats than people.

So, these components I’ve been mucking about with then…? Some wheels and some handlebars. Nice they are, but this isn’t the place for a product review. What I will say though is that they’re aimed at the ‘gravel market’. I come from a long line of builders and in the old days the ‘gravel market’ was where builders went to buy gravel, cement, plasterboard and timber at eight in the morning in a bashedup Sherpa van with discarded copies of The Sport and chippy trays with plastic forks stuck through the middle of them on the dash.

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