Good to know the bike didn't explode during BCBR or that shot of you riding down Incline! The press release for the Diverge makes it sounds like an uber light (fragile) road bike that can also be ridden off road. Not much with the diverge that makes it different than a Cross Bike IMO. Still a 70-71 head angle depending on frame size. Where you get into "specialty" gravel bikes now is when they lengthen the reach and slack-out the head angle to 68-69 degrees. Would like to give something like the Argonaut a try and hopefully the 68-69 degree head angle will trickle down-market into alloy gravel frames for 2024. I love racing cross of course and would like test the thesis that a 70-71 head angle makes slow speed turning in cross better? Really? This rule-of-thumb probably came from European road bikers not BC Bikers!
[https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/11019/argonaut-gr3-gravel-bike](https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/11019/argonaut-gr3-gravel-bike)
Jan. 13, 2023, 3:33 p.m. - tripsforkidsvancouver
Good to know the bike didn't explode during BCBR or that shot of you riding down Incline! The press release for the Diverge makes it sounds like an uber light (fragile) road bike that can also be ridden off road. Not much with the diverge that makes it different than a Cross Bike IMO. Still a 70-71 head angle depending on frame size. Where you get into "specialty" gravel bikes now is when they lengthen the reach and slack-out the head angle to 68-69 degrees. Would like to give something like the Argonaut a try and hopefully the 68-69 degree head angle will trickle down-market into alloy gravel frames for 2024. I love racing cross of course and would like test the thesis that a 70-71 head angle makes slow speed turning in cross better? Really? This rule-of-thumb probably came from European road bikers not BC Bikers! [https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/11019/argonaut-gr3-gravel-bike](https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/11019/argonaut-gr3-gravel-bike)