Originally Posted by
Spoonrobot
The Gorilla Monsoon is not a gravel bike, it's a drop bar mountain bike. It's going to have mountain bike spec tubing, going to ride like a rigid mountain bike.
Why cant i ride my gravel bike the same way as this Gorilla bike?
- Ive taken my gravel bike on river bottom single track which is what a rigid drop bar MTB is good for.
- I could take my gravel bike bikepacking on BLM land in Colorado which is what a rigit drop bar MTB is good for.
- I could ride this Gorilla bike on paved roads for 6 miles to get to hours of unending gravel roads and ride til my legs give out.
Why isnt it a gravel bike if i would use it the sane way i use my gravel bike?
Why isnt it a road bike if its a rigid frame and fork with a straight headtube, drop bars, and road shifting?
The arbitrary categorization of bikes is comical.
This all stemmed from the bike's headtube not being tapered. Since its a steel fork, it doesnt need to be tapered to reliably handle gravel, singletrack, and dirt roads without issue.
Talk about going down a rabbit hole.