Originally Posted by
chas58
I think their Inflite CF would be a good gravel/Cyclocross bike. Fast and light, easy to portage, lots of room in the frame for a framebag. The AL model is a nice bike, but the CF model is a lot better from the German articles I read (they were luke warm on the AL bike, but loved everything about the CF bike).
the CF Inflite seems to have the handling and ride of a gravel bike, with the agility of a CF bike. Its not a bikepacking mule, but for hour long to day long races its hard to beat.
Yup, this would be for CX racing, fast group road rides, an occasional ~40-80 mile gravel ride, and nice weather commuting. I've got my older canti steel CX bike with a bajillion braze-ons still if I ever want to take up bikepacking.
The only question really is whether I want to go all the way up to ~$3000. I once would have thought it ludicrous to spend that much on a bike...but my budget keeps creeping up somehow lol
