"If your 'gravel biking' looks like this... you should grab a mountain bike and stop trying to justify the dropbars for this"
Agree to disagree, I suppose. The rides you can do on a gravel bike would often completely suck on a mountain bike, even if they incorporate stretches of technical terrain. I don't need flat bars, lots of suspension and terribly slow tires for 5% of a ride when they're objectively worse for the other 95%.
EDIT: I'd add that for a lot of folks, 38c is plenty, but bigger is more comfortable (if not faster) on tarmac. But most of the time... its not a race!
Jan. 17, 2023, 9:13 a.m. - Cooper Quinn
"If your 'gravel biking' looks like this... you should grab a mountain bike and stop trying to justify the dropbars for this" Agree to disagree, I suppose. The rides you can do on a gravel bike would often completely suck on a mountain bike, even if they incorporate stretches of technical terrain. I don't need flat bars, lots of suspension and terribly slow tires for 5% of a ride when they're objectively worse for the other 95%. EDIT: I'd add that for a lot of folks, 38c is plenty, but bigger is more comfortable (if not faster) on tarmac. But most of the time... its not a race!