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First there was the road bike which took 23c.
Then arose the sportive (these were the heady days of 2014). This had the ultimate challenge: the Gran Fondo length sportive. But dads with bad backs and no flexibility ran out of headset spacers on their Allezs and were dying for something new. Industry pioneers BMC created the Gran Fondo GF02 which was slack and tall and took 28c tyres. This is Eli Whitney's cotton gin - everything else is minor tweaks to the revolutionary gravel genre defining geo.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/reviews/road-bikes/bmc-granfondo-gf02-shimano-105
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