Originally Posted by scarlson

I dunno about some of this stuff. A lot of the things that have been posted here seem to be more matters of personal opinion. Wide bars, slack angles, disc brakes, I dunno if they are any better for gravel roads. I prefer the opposite, even down to these class IV roads in northern new england with rocks and ruts and mud. But I don't want to start a debate. That's why I said, any bike you ride on gravel is a gravelbike. Once I did 15 or 20 miles of ATV trails on my Vitus 979 as part of an 80-miles-to-cape-cod adventure. Twas indeed an adventure, but bike and rider made it out alive! The hybrid bikes and MTBs are equally good as my touring angle on things. Dirtdrops, rando bars, compact, narrow, wide, bullmoose, mustache bars, porteurs, risers, flat, anything goes! Maybe that's why gravel is "in" these days.