Originally Posted by
prj71
Personally, I don't feel there is a large market for suspension on gravel bikes. There are very few gravel rides / races I have done where I thought it would be nice to have a little suspension...but that's less than 1% of the time. I'm sure that's the same for others. If the road is so crappy that suspension is required, it's probably better to be riding a XC MTB.
This to me is a bikepacking bike. There are many routes all over where this amount of suspension could be the difference between a 60 and 80, or 80 and 120 mile days on hard terrain. I just posted on ****** asking if anyone had experience with the Sworks world cup for bikepacking, mainly bc i was curious how that rear suspension might help on rough routes. This thing looks awesome for bikepacking.