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Originally Posted by bossy22
I love gravel bikes. My buddy has an Open WI.DE and he has three sets of wheels for it. Road Wheels, gravel wheels and 27.5 mountain bike wheels.
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This is something I've been really keen to do - build a bike that goes between road and gravel/track with a swap of 700 and 650b wheels.
The trouble is that this only really works if you have one or maybe two bikes. Otherwise the extra functionality is lost through overlap with your more specialized bikes. This is where I'm at with my current all rounder. It can already do some pretty heavy gravel, and with fat 650b tires could tackle even more, but at that point why wouldn't i just use my mountain bike. Same if I were to put narrower slicks on it: why wouldn't I then just use my roadie.
Still, there is something innately appealing about having one bike to rule them all. It's just much easier to achieve the narrower your riding range tends to be.