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I suppose you're right in that somewhere between TT bikes and tourers there are plain old road bikes that are just designed for one-day rides with minimal luggage, and I guess that's where this thing sits on the carbon CX bike to Surly Straggler/Soma Wolverine spectrum.
Either way, safe to say it's not for me
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Doesn't your signature say "I like ugly bikes"?
slight luddite thinking no? So we should just....stop bike development and stick to using rod brakes because they do, in all practical senses, stop you?
From experience, I've witnessed many broken 'normal' seatposts. The broken ISP's I've seen have all been user error. None have broken from some sort of fault.
Also Pressfit BB's get a really bad rep for not much reason. It's mostly bad installation.
You seem to be totally lost on what constitutes a gravel bike. It's not some sort of strict constraints. You can ride the damned thing wherever you want, likewise, there's people that toured the world on Brompton's and raced the TCR on loaded carbon bikes.
Also marketing. Lots of marketing. Since when did people ever stop buying new shit.
Chak
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.