Originally Posted by
Koyote
I did acknowledge seeing people riding MTBs for gravel races when I lived in another part of the US -- a place where gravel races regularly included significant highly technical terrain such as rock gardens, singletrack, mud bogs, etc.
I, too, see single-speeders and the occasional fat bike.
The only point I was making is that the people who seem most seriously dedicated to gravel biking -- people who race it regularly -- are on gravel bikes...Which suggests that they are not primarily motivated by some desire to "underbike" since they are presumably interested in covering ground as fast and efficiently as possible.
Oh, 100% agreement. The initial underbiking claim, as historical motivation for the genre, was insane.
I am loving this General thread. It is peak General Forum content because cycco is just inferring and assuming stuff left and right, and knocking down strawmen like a champ!
The conclusion that you arent riding a gravel bike just because you say you use a steel frame bike with clearance that isnt what current gravel bikes use, is wild.