Thx. I’ll try a few combos and see what’s what
The front 2X-10 front pushers seem to play nicely with mixing brand. Cannondale specced most of their 2x Shimano mtbs with Sram pushers and cranks ‘cause BB30.
Ok, so a 10sp Shimano MTB front mech is likely ok. But a 10sp road SRAM/Shimano mech isn’t?
I haven’t tried an MTB mech on a subcompact crank before.
Better get to dithering irl I guess
I had no real issues getting a Force shake to move an XO 2x10 pusher. So there’s that. I suspect it’s the 3x Shimano pushers that have the most issues. I have to wonder if the leverage between the 1st and 2nd shift on a Shimano 2x/3x shifter are different. The shifters do have that funky feature where you install the cable with it set as a triple, shift once, then flip the little switch to 2x before hooking it up.
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well if a force shake can shunt an XO pusher, bodes well for an XX trigger shunting a Shimano road pusher.
The “flatbar road” 10sp triple trigger has a funny set of positions, two detents for small/middle but only one for large, and the positions ‘feel’ differently spaced.
Shimano loves to “optimize”. Sram loves to “make it work”.
Neither has close to a 100% success rate.
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Turns out I cared. With the CG on the way out, I’m keeping the fork. It occurred to me to buy a stupid fixed gear instead of immediately buying another CG. I could buy a Skream Ranger and swap it in, or I could have Marino build me a stupid fixed gear, apparently for less? I’d get to use my thru axle dynamo wheels which has me jazzed.
For 650b fat tires. Not sure what chain stays will end up being as a result, hopefully STA helps. I’m not sure how high to make the bottom bracket for sick skidz.
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Hahahaha
Low trail fat tire 650b fixie porteur
It is risin
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DO IT.
I’m probably going to put my HG fork on the Marino this winter for commuting purposes
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bikes are too many kinds of bikes now
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RAER STEM
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I could put a Crust Clydesdale fork on the doublecross and really derp it up for cargo use, and then have this thing be a Monstercommuter. So tempted.
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Dithering over a new bike. My current bike is a Diamondback Haanjo which I quite like, but it’s a pretty conventional gravel bike so the handling is a bit slow. Nothing wrong with that, but there’s almost no gravel where I live (at least not that I’ve found). My riding is approximately 99.9% road and 0.1% gravel (which is ridable on 32s). I’ve decided I want something that handles more like a standard road bike.
So, do I buy a “gravel race” bike (something along the lines of a Factor LS, Specialized Crux, Cervelo Aspero, etc) that is basically a road bike that will fit 40+ tires to replace my Haanjo?
Or, do I buy a straight-ahead road bike and try to keep my Haanjo, knowing that I’d probably never again ride it more than a couple times a year?
For background, I have completely unremarkable fitness and zero interest in participating in road racing. I have a non-zero (but incredibly low) interest in participating in gravel events, but hate to travel. So the first option would allow for event participation even though I don’t like participating in events. 
I’m also pretty allergic to having more than one bike. I’ll almost certainly end up getting rid of the Haanjo regardless of which choice I make. And if I buy a road bike, and sell the Haanjo, I’ll almost certainly buy another gravel bike in a few years because I’m quite stupid!
I’d do this. the UCI Gravel Worlds were won on a road bike this year, most non-freaky road bikes can fit a 30-32mm tire, so you’re not really losing much tire volume, and you’re gaining geometry designed for actual road riding.
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A lot of endurance road bikes are coming with 30s and can go up to 35. Depends how fancy you want to go, but most carbon starts over 2k (usually 2400 or so with synapse 4 carbon).
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I also vote a road bike that can fit a 32 or maybe even a CX bike like the Crux.
I feel this. I think the Crux errs on the racy/roadie side of gravel and will be better for your use case.
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check BB height of Crux. My old one had high BB for CX. They might have changed that since idk.
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Caad12
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This aligns very well with what I’ve been thinking. In a way this is actually harder now that road bikes fit wide tires and some wide tire bikes have fast handling. If road bikes still only fit 28s this would be so much easier to decide!
Yeah I definitely would not buy any bike that would not fit 32s. The SmartSense stuff rules out the Synapse for me but it’s not a bad option otherwise.
Yeah, it does, though I probably wouldn’t get a Crux specifically. If I go for the “racy gravel” route it will almost certainly be a Factor LS. But is there any point in buying a bike like that if I never use a tire bigger than 32? 
I do like having the extra bottle mount and top tube bag mount, imagining how perfect it would be for long days of exploring, but honestly, I haven’t ridden more than four hours at a time in many years. I don’t know if I would even enjoy riding that long any more.
I’m arguing both sides of this with myself. “I shouldn’t get a gravel bike because I don’t ride gravel,” I say, but I counter with, “I shouldn’t get a road bike because I don’t ride fast enough.”
This changed when they repurposed the Crux as a gravel racer first, CX bike second. It’s has 72-74mm BB drop now.
Seriously thought about it! But the BB30 is a turn-off and they’re quite pricy for aluminum.
Thank you everyone for your replies so far! 