Gravel Bike CONFUSION: Adventure vs Race - What's The Difference?

[@bikeradar]

Adventure or race - which do you prefer?

[@piotrus5552]

Orbea Terra 50/50 :D

[@tomas7403]

Adventure

[@brianphillips7696]

Adventure. My bike is a folding full sized hard tail mountain bike with 27.5 wheels, 1.5 wide tires, 3x9 gears, and a modest air fork. Change model 809

[@sccxvelo]

Use an older CX bike that goes up to 40mm rear, 42-45mm front for fast - smoother gravel and short road rides/ errands.. Looking for an another frame for wider tires, works with modern parts, no toe overlap with wider tires, travel, and comfort on long rides .

[@andreablackcat]

Just what we needed most: one more category of bikes to boost (?) sales. Now I can't wait for the release of folding time-trial gravel tandems

[@mrfdtt2675]

Recently I took an "adventure gravel bike" with 2.1" MTB tires to a race. The only guy who was quicker races in the CX world cup. On really rough terrain and in corners he struggled more than I did, but on climbs it was the other way around.

[@chrisjong8412]

Great to see Jack again, more video's with him please🎉

[@ichor20]

I really like the gen3 checkpoints but wish it came with 2x grx. I live in the flatest of flat here in deep south texas, so I have no need for 1x with super easy gearing.

[@Boss-dr2zk]

Actually 2x has lower gears. You could get a 1x and throw on a 11-38 Cassette with a 44 Chainring or so. Just get the bike you like and then change the gearing to the one you need

[@grvl307]

Blah blah marketing. I slammed the stem on my "adventure" bike and put some fast wheels and tyres on it for hardpack gravel. Now it's a race bike 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dengar1313]

Same - bought a Checkpoint, switched out handle bars, rims and rubber, and seat to match a Checkmate. Now I have a race bike without the cost.

[@johnnorth6126]

agreed.... dIverge with 1x setup (44T chainring and GX cassette)... wheelset 1: Roval C38 with road tyres wheelset 2: Roval Terra with 44mm gravel tyres

[@michaelhawkins5633]

It's all just marketing. I put handlebars on my car and now it's a canoe.

[@mmselga]

Hahahah. I fell into watching too much youtube too. I have been working on a -7% 1.5 mile KOM. Aeroad at 2:00 flat, 13.6 lb SuperSix hi mod at 2:01, TI Gravel GR300 on Deep Dish Reynolds Wheels2:03. You are the biggest factor in aero not your bike!

[@CycleXplorer]

Still loving my aluminium Topstone as a bit of a do it all gravel bike. Super comfortable and almost 5 years old. It's done gravel rides like King Alfred's Way, South Downs Double, club runs, some time trials and the Pan Celtic Race.

[@michaelfleming4015]

I have a Topstone and a Diverge. Both have dropper posts, and hydraulic disc brakes. I currently have 30mm Pirelli P zeros on the Topstone and Pirelli Cinturato M on the Diverge. Each bike has a second wheel set with the opposite tires, all tubeless. Point is, the gravel bikes can do it all. I have an outstanding Andante hard tail mtb that is a great ride, but if I stick to green and blue trails, I find it fun to ride them on a gravel bike. That’s the main reason I have droppers on them. Nuff said 😅🚴🏼‍♀️👍🏼

[@kristiankjaergaard]

THE FEATHER LIGHT WEIGHT SCENE AT 4:55 IS AWESOME!!!

[@oldmanbucksaw]

Both the Checkpoint and Checkmate have relatively long reaches and low stack heights. The stack on the Checkpoint is lower than other bikes in the "adventure" class.

[@pingpongballz5998]

Ya the new checkpoint doesn't seem upright at all

[@Andy_ATB]

To be honest, far too many bikes stack figures are too low, even for supposed Endurance bikes.......I don't know how they get this so wrong. I looked at both the Domane, and Checkpoint, and the Domane is a better fit for adventure riding, than the Checkpoint.....

[@oldmanbucksaw]

@@Andy_ATB I recently shopped for a new adventure gravel bike and settled on the Giant Revolt Advanced because of it's stack and reach numbers compared to the competition.

[@Csapi007]

Unless you've finished top 10 in a UCI gravel or Life Time Grand Prix race, you don't need a gravel race bike!

[@KoreaRides]

@Csapi007 if only things were as simple as you try to make them out to be!

[@Rareos]

Except you do if that's what you want. if you like to race you have the option to get a race focused bike, so what? Are you benefiting from all it's tech as a weekend warrior? not really.. are you finishing top 10 anywhere? no... but you aren't competing for the Sensible Cup either so just enjoy your life and do what you want.

[@keith_cottongim]

I have a racy gravel frame and an adventurery gravel frame. After 4 years not sure which is best for me

[@Cycling.Bikepacking]

If you buy 1 size smaller and fit 1cm longer stem - your “adventure” bike suddenly becomes racier than your “race” model. Pure marketing bs.

[@graemehill]

And it can fit tires that will be faster for some courses. Really surprising that trek did this considering they apparently had a push for fewer models.

[@tomas7403]

The stem is the key, with a regular stem you can change from adventure to race easily.

[@grahamwood159]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pair of bikes so utterly boring in design and colour

[@tomlamontagne4319]

What about price factor ? The checkmate starts at 11k here 🤯

[@Boss-dr2zk]

Just get a Poseidon X for Racing or Redwood for "adventure"

[@vincentdufour9487]

Is the Checkmate simply a Domane SLR with greater tire clearance and madone’s cockpit ?

[@thomasspotzl4240]

There's Adventure, Race, Allround and Monster...and I can't wait for people to realize that category equals purpose. People putting too much diffent meanings into "gravel".

[@darrin2382]

what is it with you and GCN...every other article is "Gravel vs..."

[@ricksantana1016]

I was just told recently that Pirelli has 40 mil treads been googling but to no avail…

[@mister_ray]

They are for sale on ebay. I run Schwalbe G-One speed 40s and they go well on pavement and can do OK on dirt.

[@JustBrowsing777]

Trek ad essentially. Bye

[@YounanPhoto]

why, you can apply this to any bike.. They aren't hiding sponsorships..

[@JustBrowsing777]

@YounanPhoto yes you can apply the principles to other bikes. But I can bet this was not about the channel wanting to do another video on a topic discussed to death in recent years. This was surely Trek approaching them wanting to do a paid advertising for their two gravelbikes and the channel creating content around that. I'm pretty tired of that spoonfeeding.

[@p.c.9714]

​@@JustBrowsing777 could not agree more. Very disappointed.

[@planetrock8733]

52 sec in.. "comes with an unhealthy disregard for your personal safety" I'm tapping out already. This sweaty sock spouts some tosh

[@dryburn]

😴 Bike vids suck nowadays.

[@moritzorama]

Then don't watch them

[@pingpongballz5998]

So don't watch em

[@TheTomdegreef58]

Adventure

[@JeromeEdwards74]

Why don’t you take that handlebar bag off so we can actually see the bike. 🤷🤷🤷

[@olimpiuchis1905]

Gravel bikes sucks. Mtb is for terrain