The above gave me a little pause. One of the familiar digs on disc brakes as applied to road bikes is that they require a stiffer fork due to the torque incurred. (But flexible forks are compliant and springy, don't call it suspension or the C&V will evict you!). Gravel bikes, the most popular cultivar of new road bikes for sale right now, have disc brakes, and they have a lot of cargo capacity on the fork, so it's a doozy. They also have fat tires, for handling the dirt roads they might one day travel. But with that fork, do they need those fat tires to be a good ride at all? Shoppers often say they will (but may not actually) buy another wheel set with skinny roadie tires. Is that really a good idea?