But you do acknowledge that everyone's got a different set of parameters, right? Lots of riders like the variety of hand positions drop bars provide, and have a ride experience that spans gravel, road, and some percentage of actual mild singletrack.
I did plenty of road bike riding on gravel roads and it was 'fine' but can imagine a lot of rides (back in Switzerland where I did most of my road riding as well as here on the Sunshine Coast) where a drop bar bike with 2.1s and disc brakes would be the right tool to do some amazing exploring.
June 8, 2022, 11:14 a.m. - Pete Roggeman
But you do acknowledge that everyone's got a different set of parameters, right? Lots of riders like the variety of hand positions drop bars provide, and have a ride experience that spans gravel, road, and some percentage of actual mild singletrack. I did plenty of road bike riding on gravel roads and it was 'fine' but can imagine a lot of rides (back in Switzerland where I did most of my road riding as well as here on the Sunshine Coast) where a drop bar bike with 2.1s and disc brakes would be the right tool to do some amazing exploring.