Questions we hear a lot

Pressure is a method, not a number — start low and listen. It falls out of tire width, rider weight, and surface: a 45 mm tire under a 175 lb rider lands somewhere around 28/30 psi (front usually two psi softer than rear), then you adjust by feel for the day. Anything in the 40s on a 45 mm tire is almost always too hard.

A tanwall is a tire with a tan-colored sidewall — the near-universal look on gravel bikes, and the closest thing the sport has to a membership badge. It is also the name of this house: a plain, ownable descriptor of the thing every rider already clocks.

Neither is “better” — choose by terrain, not tribe. A 1x drivetrain (one front ring, wide cassette) is simpler, quieter over chunk, and clears mud; 2x gives tighter cadence steps for long paved connectors. Most gravel-native setups run 1x with a bailout gear low enough to spin up a wall.

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