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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
My checkpoint I am happy with, and it is a fairly flexible on types of usage. Fairly fast, but still has the ability to add a bunch of mounts. If I bought again I’d probably move farther into the racier bike though, as I don’t have any desire to bike pack.
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I finally got my Trek Checkpoint SL5 after the warranty replacement of the crank from The Bike Shop (I had to pay for half). They had substituted a different crank instead of GRX during pandemic shortages.
The checkpoint is plenty fast! I feel more comfortable pushing fast speeds on the checkpoint because of the gravel tires than my light but twitchy road bike.
The only thing with all the mount points is I've already lost one or two of the plastic plugs that go into all the mount point holes.
This is my first real gravel bike, not sure where to take it yet, I don't have any friends that do any gravel biking.