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yeah I get that. My Quirk is pretty similar to the Exposure, and for a while was doing double duty for road and dirt long rides, but now my CDF has had some treats and covers road/light gravel just fine and my Quirk never sees the road setup, making me wonder whether I should have put a MTB group on instead of Force. Plus for months almost all I've ridden is my parts bin rigid MTB, so all we can really learn from this is that im an idiot
jackbepablo-
I originally got the Tripster for road, simply because the 4SD snapped and I didn't want another one for its warranty replacement. Got the Mason after the first was written off by a car but then figured it worked so why not replace like for like but this time built it up for gravel stuff which its been doing since, slowly replacing the old road parts with newer gravel parts as they wear out or break.
I'd love a modern Tarmac or similar to replace my old one but they're stupid money for a Sunday best bike. If I do get one, then I'll let the Mason Resolution and old Tarmac go. I've got two modern MTBs now that I could use for most gravel stuff without much drama (it's not like I'm winning gravel races)
Another option might be a fast gravel bike like a 3T or OpenUP that will do double duty as my 'nice' road bike AND have a spare wheelset with 42mm on it for gravel rides.
Basically, I want fewer bikes in my life. Buy my Inbred.
hippy
I was in contact with them about that. I almost got one but now that I've got MTBs I think I don't need a "big" gravel bike. I'm going to wait until I break the Tripster and then see if I bother replacing it. My original plan was to get rid of the Tripster and Mason Resolution and have the Exposure with two sets of wheels for road/gravel but I reckon I will just ride an MTB on most gravel events and maybe get a 'light gravel' aka modern road bike for everything else and get rid of the Tarmac and Resolution. Problem is I can't break this Tripster and I get attached to the other bikes.