Originally Posted by WhyFi

The Checkpoint is a gravel bike. Gravel bikes are road bikes, (generally) very closely related to endurance bikes. Therefore, the transitive property says that the Checkpoint is a road bike.

A 56cm Checkpoint is actually a hair lower and a a hair longer than a 56cm Domane. Rake and trail is the same, wheelbase is within a cm, etc, etc. I wouldn't argue that putting nice wheels on a Domane is dumb - hell, I did that myself two years ago - so I don't know why it'd be dumb to do so on a Checkpoint.

You put nice wheels and slicks on a Checkpoint and you have a burly road bike with a gap-toothed smile. Nothing wrong with that until he gets a bike that looks faster (but in reality is only a hair faster).