Originally Posted by
Steve B.
I'd doubt you'd be able to get it that light. My Smoothie road, with 19mm wide road rims and 28mm tires weighs 22.5 lbs. A gravel bike with a 25mm wide rim and 40+mm tires is likely to be 25 lbs at it's lightest. Steel can be made to be light, a gravel version won't be.
Care to further elaborate on how it get's so heavy? Because my primary gravel rig has a wheel/tire combo very similar to that and it is 9kg dry, including pedals and cages. The original wheelset (22mm wide), with the same tires, weighed 1.2kg more. Granted it has a carbon frame, but even if it was made of steel, I can't see adding on 5+ more pounds to the current build. Or is this frame a boat anchor? What am I missing?