Originally Posted by
sgtrobo
a lot of discussion about what this bike is intended to do.
It's not a do-it-all bike. That is something like a Salsa Cutthroat (which I have). This bike, to me, is an endurance road bike that can handle some off-road areas and gravel. Or, to put it another way, it's a Roubaix with fatter tires (I know, not literally, but for the purposes of deciding how to ride it)
It took 18 pages, but FINALLY someone else willing to state what is common sensical.
The diverge is an evolution of the secteur (adding a CGR, FS and discs), and the secteur was an aluminum version of the roubaix with identical geometry.
No one with an ounce of common sense would ever believe the Diverge is either a cyclocross much less an mtb.
Now that the top secret NSA files with Diverge geometry have been released, perhaps people can ride this bike the way it was intended: as a road bike with occasional ventures on dirt roads.