I kinda wonder why this is in the commuting forum at all. If you commute is under 3 days, and you don't carry a tent and sleeping bad, it is almost certainly overkill. When I finally get around to dropping out of college and bike touring the world, this is the bike I would take, give or take.

It's not a cross bike, it would probably be lousy for racing, not to mention disks make it uci illegal.

It's not really a commuter either, as I said, way overkill.

it is a hard-core expedition tourer, and is rather well suited to that. It has a sort of rugged ugliness that endears me to it. I don't think I could ride it properly if if I bought it, neither could most people on their daily commute.