As I write, I am on the way to Italy to be shown some new and exciting gravel bikes, or at least I hope they are both new and exciting. I'll take new though, given my transit to and from Tuscany involves eight trains and a brace of flights.
Happily, on arrival at the second station on my journey, the magnificent Bristol Temple Meads, I spied locked up in the bike racks a fine example of not only the coolest bike genre there is - the dedicated winter bike - but perhaps the archetype of the breed, the magnificent (and discontinued) Ribble 7005.
