Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Think of a bike that excels at nothing, then you're probably pretty close.
Perfect for the rider who excels at nothing then !
Think of a bike that excels at nothing, then you're probably pretty close.
A gravel bike is part way between a cyclocross bike and a road bike, a bit more relaxed geometry , not as sporty, but more suitable for off tarmac than a road bikeA cyclocross bike is not built for comfortable long rides; it's for one-hour events and is quite sporty. A gravel bike is more of a rugged, stable road bike.
That spectrum of bikes from mountain bike to road bike doesn't add up and depends on your defintion of mountain bike and road bike, making it no more valid than someone who defines a gravel bike as being explicitly different to a mountain or road bike. Otherwise it would follow that before the advent of the "mountain bike", all bikes were road bikes. Any bike manufactured after the advent of the mountain bike that could not be described as 100% road bike would therefore be a hybrid even if it were identical to a road bike manufactured before the advent of the mountain bike. 😉Anything between a road bike and a mountain bike is a hybrid afaic,.... Gravel bikes are just hybrids with drop or flat bars.
That spectrum of bikes from mountain bike to road bike doesn't add up and depends on your defintion of mountain bike and road bike, making it no more valid than someone who defines a gravel bike as being explicitly different to a mountain or road bike. Otherwise it would follow that before the advent of the "mountain bike", all bikes were road bikes. Any bike manufactured after the advent of the mountain bike that could not be described as 100% road bike would therefore be a hybrid even if it were identical to a road bike manufactured before the advent of the mountain bike. 😉
Hybrid bike was a term invented for marketing and sales just as gravel bike is - you are accepting one marketing term as definitive without question or criticism and rejecting another because it is a marketing term. There is no spectrum with mountain bikes at one end and road bikes at the other (whatever it is that "road bike" means - there's disagreement in this parish on that too) and anything which is considered not to be one or the other isn't necessarily a cross between the two. When my father's roadster was designed a few decades ago, you can bet that the designers didn't decide to create a hybrid between a mountain bike and a "road bike", nor were Dawes doing the same when they made the first Galaxy.They are still hybrids to me. Gravel and adventure bikes are neither road bikes or mountain bikes, but a combination of the two.... ie a hybrid.
The bike manufacturers make up these names purely for marketing and sales, these names sound cooler than just calling them hybrids.
You’re complicating things, it’s a GT Grade.......😁. A very nice gravel/road bike!This vvvv is a gravel bike.
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while this vvvv is a roadbike.
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I hope that clears it up once and for all!