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These look like great routes to use, I will need to get out and ride them. Off road cycling is about skill so is quite different from an all out TT effort on the Georgetown and could suit a lot more people.

I'd be interested - Although the Venn Diagram of people in the club that like TTing and also like gravel riding and who would like the two to be combined might just be a circle with me in it https://www.strava.com/routes/2926218731512168650 Thats the Corlic hill loop i mentioned last night - it's pretty short but a loop so could do laps to make up a longer distance. Although i wouldnt fancy doing the steep bit too many times! One benefit it it's all off road and closed to cars and wide. IMO about as fast on a mountain bike as it would be on a gravel bike. https://www.strava.com/routes/2926220499691371722 This is Devol past Port Glasgow Golf Course and up to the substation. It's a loop again, some of it on road (all left turns) and has a gate. Would be slightly faster on a gravel bike but mtb would be faster on the descent part. https://www.strava.com/routes/2926222368858057332 For a traditional TT distance then here is 10 mile around Loch Thom. Gravel bike would be faster than a mtb due to more road That's just 3 options that are all fairly local. There are lots of other local options (like to the mine at Muirshiel and back down again) but a lot of them would be out and back rather than loops and some (like around the Neilston pad or up to Loch Humphrey) can be busy with walkers and we might be a bit of a nuisance! Alternatively could go a bit further afield - Whitelee, Dunoon, or Aberfoyle etc and then do something that is longer. Not sure what the appetite would be for that but i'd be up for that too.

Looking to explore options for including gravel bike specific events on the club calendar. This is a new event being built up from nothing so everything is on the table at this stage, no detail too small, no idea too crazy. What would get your interest so you will ride it? Mountain bikes and e-bikes will also be welcome in this, indeed any bike at all. Post up here or message me.

https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/4850888815 Or this loop of 2 joined routes, easy to get to from cycle track.

It is sorrowful to note that I am bereft of such lexicographical creativity.

"Gravelistas" ...... have you just coined a new word there, Gerard? :-)