Is there such a thing as a fast bike?

Or it means you're the trend setter :)

Purple? Custom paint?

Nope, standard DA model in the first couple of years!

Got passed by a guy on one of those 1x aero 3t thingys. Looked pretty fast.

my tcr with 30mm alloy rims and my aeroad w/ 50mm deep rims there was like 1-2mph avg difference for similar power averaged over a couple hundred rides. gravel bike is harder to compare as the position isn't as aggro but do a lot of intervals on it on hills that i've also repeated on the aeroad. lose like 10-20s over 5 min for similar power (so like 5-6%). could be down to different power meters (quarq vs. vector) but hr is similar. about 3lbs of weight, slower rolling tires, more upright, less slippery. for general road riding i don't know the difference as well. maybe 2-4mph or so? obviously heavily depends on terrain.

have to decide what i am racing in a relatively mellow gravel race in 2 weeks. aeroad w/ 30mm tires or the gravel bike with 38s. hmmm.

It's a very changeable thing. My bike was a SLOW bike tonight tonight riding Westwards, but fashion is a funny, changeable thing. I turned 180 degress towards home and it flew.

Have to be fairly mellow for 30c slicks. Like strade Bianche mellow

yea it is close. i recall one moderately deep sandy section from last year, and i ain't no mvdp. a lot of road and mellow gravel though. probs just going to send it on the road bike. need all the free speed i can get for the glory of 20th place.

Surely there's no such thing as a fast bike but it is possible to have a slow bike?

I can vouch for the slow bike theory

Yes, I have 10 different ones.

Does stationary count as slow?