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How do you choose the right gravel bike geometry?

What is a gravel bike? Is it a cyclo-cross bike with slacker geometry? Is it an early 1990s mountain bike with drop handlebars? Is it a modern mountain bike without the suspension? Or is it a highly evolved new species that blends the best characteristics of all of those and spices it up with some modern technology?

According to Tim Allen, founder of Soigneur Bike Fitting, a gravel bike isn’t actually a type of bike at all – it’s a

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