i believe a 29r with rim brakes would be regressive, even with slack geo, because the rim brake is the dominant trait,
they would sit with anyone who owns a crust bikes or people who insist "touring bikes" are "gravel bikes" and people who think it's funny to go "hahah it's a hybrid", in the lower right quadrant to varying degrees
pretty much stem lords of the gravel bike world, technically correct for the most part, but stem lord none the less
i believe a 29r with rim brakes would be regressive, even with slack geo, because the rim brake is the dominant trait,
they would sit with anyone who owns a crust bikes or people who insist "touring bikes" are "gravel bikes" and people who think it's funny to go "hahah it's a hybrid", in the lower right quadrant to varying degrees
pretty much stem lords of the gravel bike world, technically correct for the most part, but stem lord none the less