Originally Posted by
jfranci3
With the same tires at the same pressure, same seat post, and same fit, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. A racy gravel bike and a touring would be the same bike.
This is not true. A touring bike may have similar geometry to a gravel bike, but the ride is quite different. Full touring bikes are designed and built to carry a touring load and do not really have a lot of vertical compliance due to the heavier gauge tubing used to support heavy loads on the frame and continuous pounding of the rack load directly on the frame. Gravel bikes, though similar in geometry are built with much more compliant frame materials and the good ones are much better a soaking up rough road bumps, etc.