I really enjoy this thread. Some of the bikes posted are fantastic machines
(also prohibitively expensive). I suppose if you live in a small flat one 'gravel' bike could meet all your requirements.
However, I don't think I would buy one because when I ride on a towpath or sustrans route, I like to take it slowly and enjoy the experience. I don't need or want performance. Perhaps I should hang a load of weird looking bags on my old Claud Butler Dalesman and tell everyone it's a gravel bike.
one of my clubmates has done exactly that - he regularly rides our gravel rides on his old 90s claud butler, which for some reason has clearance for 40mm+ tyres. he even did the badger divide on it, I think
I really enjoy this thread. Some of the bikes posted are fantastic machines
(also prohibitively expensive). I suppose if you live in a small flat one 'gravel' bike could meet all your requirements.
However, I don't think I would buy one because when I ride on a towpath or sustrans route, I like to take it slowly and enjoy the experience. I don't need or want performance. Perhaps I should hang a load of weird looking bags on my old Claud Butler Dalesman and tell everyone it's a gravel bike.