Originally Posted by
NormanF
If I was OP, I'd get an adventure/gravel road bike. More tire clearance and on most of them you can run full fenders with 35c tires. Wider is better.
And traditional road bikes are not built to commute on.
I can make the same statement about any bike with drop bars. The majority of bikes used around the planet for commuting, and throughout the history of time, have not had drop bars, so this this entire narrative line is intellectutal mastrubation.