Originally Posted by
RH Clark
I would be just the opposite since I couldn't ride gravel with an expensive carbon frame without always worrying about some stray gravel chipping my carbon frame and potentially destroying it. I suppose that fear may not be completely founded but I'm older and hard to convince. Might be different if the cost meant less to me.
I ride gravel with an expensive custom steel frame. I worry more about that than my carbon XC bike.