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I'm not saying 25c is my ideal, but I ride what I have at the moment, and when I found myself on a gravel bit I have tarmac before and after. Plenty of people ride their road bikes on gravel in the summer with no issues (last year near Stockholm I was riding with a guy on a Venge and he smashed it). My point is actual gravel - you know, coarse sand, small stones - doesn't need or benefit from 2" knobblies, and the over-use of the moniker is tiring.
I think it's pretty hard to argue that a road bike with 25mm tyres is
a gravel bike.Yet they make a much more relevant choice on smooth gravel than a MTB with drops or 13kg tourer with a 70 gear inches top gear.
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With all due respect some pros are riding wider tyres than that on roads. I may be way off the spectrum into MTB territory but I think it's pretty hard to argue that a road bike with 25mm tyres is a gravel bike.
assuming we are the edge cases, if you hate a bike for being slow and having fat tyres, and I simultaneously hate it for being overgeared and having narrow tyres, then it's probably bang on. Which to much surprise pretty much leaves us at an Arkose.