Do you ever end up questioning whether or not you can purchase a gravel bike or a highway bike?

If that’s the case, it’s because the bicycle business and media have perpetuated the concept “highway” and “gravel” are in some way two various things that warrant two fully totally different bicycles, form of like how Subway® discovered they may simply put the contents of a sandwich in a bowl and promote it as a completely totally different menu merchandise.

See, nowadays there’s a serious backlash in opposition to bread, similar to there’s a backlash in opposition to bikes with minimal tire clearance, so if you consider it the protein bowl is principally the gravel bike of ready lunches:

[I asked the AI to generate an image based on the phrase “Keto Is The New Gravel” and this is what I got. Delicious!]

And let’s not neglect that this present fixation with bowls comes after everybody had lengthy been providing wraps, the unique alt lunch:

That is like within the days earlier than gravel when all of the bike firms began making a giant deal about providing highway bikes with barely taller headtubes:

So on this sense the wrap was the endurance highway bike of sandwiches.

Fortuitously if you happen to’re in search of a “do-it-all” bike within the archetypal highway bike silhouette that’s fairly sporting and but additionally imbued with all of the consolation and flexibility the spoiled fashionable bike shopper calls for, you don’t have to go to a sequence restaurant and order by quantity, you’ll be able to simply get considered one of these:

Which I point out as a result of I occurred to note the next in the most recent Rivendell publication:

As at all times, I’ll stress that Rivendell didn’t ask me to share this data. In reality, they by no means ask me to share something, apart from my current story about the brand new derailleur, which they did provide me the chance to cowl, and which I proceeded to botch. No, I point out it solely as a result of I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS BICYCLE so I needed to let you realize that if you happen to’re occupied with proudly owning one too now’s your likelihood. You’ll not remorse it, until you do.

Talking of drop bars and the social assemble that’s bikes becoming neatly into extremely particular classes, apparently individuals have been upset about riders utilizing mountain bikes with drop bars at Leadville or one thing:

Is that this true, have been individuals actually offended by this? If that’s the case, we are able to safely assume that they have been mountain bikers, who we’ve firmly established are absolutely the worst. The worst, Jerry:

As for Leadville, I suppose it’s now simply one other product of Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. [LTH -1895%], however I’ll at all times consider it as that race Fats Bike owner was obsessive about:

And that Lance Armstrong determined to win in 2009 as a result of he was dissatisfied along with his Tour de France outcome:

As for whether or not The Life Time Grand Prix℠ is the Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. [CMG +29998%] of motorbike race collection, I can’t say for positive, however I actually wouldn’t rule it out.