Gravel Vs. Trail Bikes

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For the OG question, a lot of the difference between categories comes down to geometry. Its also always worth keeping in mind that bike categories are like 70% marketing. Todays gravel was yesterdays cyclocross bike which was the day before thats endurance road bike. The trends change, the marketing changes, but bike design is bike design.

There are tons of ways bike designers play with/tweak geometry to make the bike excel in different ways. Theres a pretty wide variety of bikes marketed as gravel bikes, from barely-changed road bikes targeted at elite racers to long, slack bikes targeted at bikepackers/singletrack riders. There are always tradeoffs in bike geometry. Just as an example, a more upright seating position (shorter effective top tube and slacker head angle) pushes weight back which helps make the bike better off road, but decreases aerodynamic efficiency. There are dozens of geometric constraints to adjust when designing a bike and they all play into each other (can't adjust just one without affecting others).

For gravel vs trail, in general gravel is going to more to the road side of geometry (so nods given to aero, drop bars, uses road components, etc) but with some off-road dna mixed in. Theres an assumption that gravel bikes are ridden at least some of the time on pavement. Trail bikes are usually mountain bikes and its assumed they will see very little pavement so off-road performance is the driving design goal. But theres definitely some overlap in the middle, where the more off-roady gravel bikes and racier trail bikes are gonna be pretty similar. See bikes like the Salsa Fargo.

Jabber Wocky
Thank you for that information., Very helpful......
If I can add, then also thrown into the mix is what is called a "Hunting Bike", across between a trail bike and Heinz's 57 mix? lol,
like the
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And I am not sure what to call these type of bikes,
Other than they do a very good job of trail riding/hopefully haul out game, whenever I am lucky enough to DRAW a tag.....lol which hasn't happened in the last 7 yrs.
Tia
yrmv

 

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And I am not sure what to call these type of bikes,
Other than they do a very good job of trail riding/hopefully haul out game, whenever I am lucky enough to DRAW a tag.....lol which hasn't happened in the last 7 yrs.
Tia
yrmv

From what I've seen, those hunting type bikes are just emountainbikes with camo paint jobs. Don't really know much else about them.