Originally Posted by Lemond1985

My Battaglin has some of the tightest geometry I have ever seen, and there's no way you'd ever be able to fit anything larger than a 23 mm tire in the back, you'd hit the seat tube! It's got vertical dropouts, so there's only one place you can put the rear wheel.

Still, I'm keeping it, I don't care if it won't do gravel. There should always be a place in every road bike stable for a no-compromise, smooth-roads-only, steep-angled, "twitchy" (it's not) classic steel race machine.