Paying more for less

[hamster]

The difference is that these bikes are being sold as good all-rounders or at least not as a niche bikes and punters are being charged more for them as the latest pinnacle of technology.

Ah but the all-rounders now have a new name: Gravel Bikes!
Geometry is pretty much identical to a mid-90s MTB. Sensible bikes that do nothing badly and most things reasonably well. The only thing wrong with them is the smell of marketing puff.

 

[Tootyred]

Gravel bike?.......oh you mean a 1986 Raleigh equipe with slightly nobbly tyres, resold to a new generation.

Hummmmm.....progress you say.....