Originally Posted by mstateglfr

- 2150g for a small sized aluminum frame is heavy and nearly unheard of.
- the dropouts are QR.
- postmount style brake
- heavy QR steel fork for cost savings.

Those are all uncommon for quality gravel bikes at this point. As a result, I said the frame is outdated.

Originally Posted by veganbikes

The question should really be what is current about it other than some factory is making them still and a big box store is selling them.

If we want to talk hype in cycling this is it. It would be like if Pizza Hut made a dish similar to Olive Garden and everyone was freaking out about how great it is and massive leap for Italian food and all that sort of craziness. Yes certainly better offering then what Wally-Mart has offered in the past but at best it is a notch under the bottom end of a bike shop bike.

If I was stuck in the middle of nowhere and there weren't bike shops around and my frame and parts were destroyed and I needed to ride out of town and was desperate I would get one but I wouldn't put much time or money towards one unless I made a living on content creation like say Seth from Berm Peak.