Originally Posted by
Erik_A
Both of those Diamondback Century bikes from 2016 have standard road caliper brakes:
We are well into the 2017 model year and the 2017 Century 5 and Century 4 feature Ultegra/105 Hydraulic discs.:
https://www.diamondback.com/century-5-carbon-3665
https://www.diamondback.com/century-4-carbon-3587
I couldn't imagine why an endurance road bike would be made to fit 700x45 tires? That's squarely in gravel/cross/adventure territory and that clearance level for those types of bikes has been pretty common for a year or two now.
Sell out? At $2k? That price point is massively saturated, I don't think this bike has much to differentiate it from the several other options that are the same thing.
Ah, you edited your original post with more info. I think you are conflating endurance road and gravel bikes, the market is still defining but so far they're not the same thing. There is some overlap but endurance road as noted above will max out with much smaller tire sizes and are generally not built to handle the same terrain as a gravel bike.