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Hey thanks again guys, will take a look at the sonder for sure. Regard the weight and tyres on the vitus they said its weighted with tubeless and i assume its the tryes that come with it 40c. Thanks

Thanks for the replies guys. Was thinking of the vitus venon evo gr on chain reactions its at 2500 at the moment 8.5kg ish and can run upto 4.8 tyres. Although the steel and Ti options have crossed my mind some great bikes put there. Good point also about the terrain as well, in my mind i want to ride quicker, i want to crunch out the miles and the climbs my current mtb is 15.5kg and im carrying about 10kg of back packing stuff. Im trying to understand if it would be a noticable difference regrading weight and geometry, and terrain or is it just a head game that doesnt make that much difference. Could be a case of a bad tradesman blaming his tools.

Hi fellow bikers
Need some advice on gravel biking please. So I come from a MTB background and over the last 12 months have been doing some 100 - 200 miler trails. Trails like Dales 300, Trans Cambrian, Brecon Beacons and Black mountains. These routes as you probably know are a mix of gravel and some old school traditional MTB single track over isolated moorland. Ive completed these rides on a full sus mountain bike not an xc bike more of a enduro set up. My question is whilst there are good fire road, bridleway and double track on these routes theres also some rock gardens that would seem quite sever for a carbon gravel bike. But tame for a full sus or managable for an XC bike. I love the fact that the Gravel bike will be lighter and help me on the climbs, as I usually try to push between 80 to 100 miles each day. My dilema is what is the best XC hardtail or Gravel. Any advice and info much appreciated.