Originally Posted by
Koyote
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.
The point I’m making that you continue to miss is that people who want to convert a bicycle to gravel riding aren’t “seriously dedicated” gravel racers. They want a taste of riding gravel to find out why people are doing it. They could use a perfectly capable mountain bike for that endeavor but they seem to want to do the whole rigid underbiked thing. Again, maybe not all people are drawn to underbiking but some are.
I’ll remind you…again…that the thread is about doing a bicycle conversion. It is not about racing whether casually or seriously.