Today I took my first ride on my new gravel bike and it performed well, though the gears still need adjusting. I took it over some gravel I could never have ridden over with the road bike - all the way down to the forest at the end of the road, the only place around here where the trilliums grow. Here's one. Getting used to the gravel bike and practicing some off-roading is all part of what I am calling 'Project Anticosti', a two-year effort to do something challenging (more later).