• PhilDAS is right...

    Is he though.

    ...in that a CX bike will generally be more similar to a road bike geo than a gravel bike.

    Citation needed

  • Citation needed

    all size Large

    Canyon Grail CF SLX - gravel

    head tube angle = 72.5
    seat tube angle = 73.5
    stack = 688mm

    Canyon Ultimate CF SLX - road

    head tube angle = 73.3
    seat tube angle = 73.8
    stack = 592mm

    Canyon Inflite CF SLX - cyclocross

    head tube angle = 73.5
    seat tube angle = 73.5
    stack = 593mm

  • Very good exemple, as I had both an Inflite (previous gen) and an Ultimate at the same time for a little while, and rode both on the road and hardpack grus. The Ultimate was faster, more stable and just a better ride, even on gravel.

    You have not mentioned trail, BB height, chainstay length,fork offset?

  • To be fair, the stack on the gravel included bar, which the alu version would be a fair comparison.

  • Then again cross bikes like Super X and Crux have slacker headtube angles than that Grail. And gravel bikes like the Condor Bivio are rather close to road bikes, with the stack too, 593 mm on a 58. Specialized Roubaix is a few cm taller. These have about 70 mm of bb drop too. Diverge also looks a bit like a road bike, though not quite. A confusing time to be alive.

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