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road bikes with a tiny bit more clearance and one extra bottle cage
Well based off the Gravel World Championship parcours, that's exactly what a gravel bike is.
150 miles at 21.6mph average probably needed some pretty big gearing too.
We don't have gravel roads in the UK like they do in the US so everyone gets wet over these 2" mtb tyred 650b things when they'd be far better off just buying an mtb.
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just buying an mtb
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@umop3pisdn did you do a ninja edit?! I agree with your initial post, the majority of bikes on here with 2.1 MTB tyres are not gravel bikes. Well, every bike is a gravel bike to an extent but you know what I mean.
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Come on over to the Netherlands for a weekend. We've got some lovely gravel roads around here which are really fast on 32mm tyres, but are very doable on 28mm :). I'll show you around!
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Edit: do folks have a different perception of what a gravel bike is? That's the archetype IMO, I personally think that most so-called "gravel" bikes (as dubbed by the industry) are just road bikes with a tiny bit more clearance and one extra bottle cage. something something paradigm, modalities, other bullshit words, knowledge is porridge, etc.