Originally Posted by pbass

Very cool-looking bike. I love the idea of flat-bar gravel bikes, and it does seem to be sort of a trendy concept currently, even in the more boutique world. What I would love to see is these kind of bikes make into the hands of more folks just getting into riding who usually get sold hybrids/entry-level hardtails with crappy suspension forks they really don't need. My teenage son has such a hardtail, and it weighs a ton, and he's only riding it around on pavement for the most part. But I couldn't talk him out of having that suspension fork on the front, and now he keeps it locked out most of the time!