Originally Posted by
Koyote
I'm not sure that gravel bikes have much future. I suspect that enough of the interested riders already have bought gravel bikes (some have multiple gravel bikes).
Rather, I think the industry will soon move on to pushing the next bike genre that will have us all looking for the n+1.
I wonder this myself; especially if gravel biking continues the trend towards basically a road bike with off road tires.
It seems there is not enough differentiation to justify a seperate bike when you already have cyclocross as a genre. For myself I would resist buying a whole new bike in favour of tweaking an existing road bike for that.
To justify a new purchase I would need a more rugged design that fills the gap between what I can do with a road bike and what now requires a hardtail trail mtb.