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To me that's what differentiates a gravel bike and a CX bike. A CX bike is to a gravel bike as a TT bike is to a tourer. They're just the off-road equivalents.
I mean, it's got 4 bottle cage mounts on the frame; it's obviously supposed to be taken to remote places and to carry weight, rather than to enter a race on.
I bet they've given it a press-fit BB as well
frankenbike-
i don't think those things are mutually exclusive. lots of gravel races are really long, many also have pretty minimal support. so having a light aggressively fit bike makes sense. also a lot of people ride pretty long distances to get to nice gravel/dirt and it is annoying sometimes to only have two bottles or to have to wear a pack.
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and i don't think you analogy really captures it. a gravel bike is more like the "endurance" version of a cx bike. slacker hta, longer wheelbase, more clearance, lower bb.
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Garvel Beiks are just hybrids for roadies and fixeh dorks that can’t cope with Theresa May’s strong and stable road surfaces.
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miro_o
I thought that was touring bikes? Gravel & touring seem to have made a somewhat inevitable crossover that's confused things a bit.
Gravel bikes did originate in gravel racing, so features like ISP and other racy stuff are bound to feature sometimes :-)