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It's a great bike and I am enjoying it for the purpose I bought it for - riding technical off-road trails.
Pretty sure it's capable enough to make an aggressive gravel bike or a decent, eyeletless, road bike. But probably not what it's been conceived for. Anyway, bikes these days are good at everything you want them to, so just buy a bike that gets you excited to ride it.
But I must concur it'd kill me to ride with strap on mudguards for 8months a year. You can probably get a Ti all-road/endurance bike which would be just as capable for that 20% offroad
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@hippy, @giofox and @yeahdext and any other crux owners, how are you getting on with them so far? Wondering if one would make a decent winter road bike that was 80% on road and 20% off road it whether this wouldn’t really be making the most of the bike. Decent weight appeals for winter road duties, and wondering whether running 2x groupset with two sets of wheels could be a goer but lack of mudguard mounts is annoying and clip-on guards suck. In Cornwall I need guards for approx 8 months of the year