You don’t need a gravel-specific bike to get in on the gravel adventures everyone seems to be enjoying nowadays. A road bike, with the right conversions, can take on some light gravel grinds.

If you’re looking to bring 1x GRX to a gravel hub, you’ll still need a microspline conversion kit. While GRX 2x groups borrow Shimano’s HGL2 standard from 12-speed road, the 1x version uses ...