Racing / Gravel bike can you have both?

Wilier Rave is probably the type of bike you are looking for but unfortunately it'as well out of budget

Other than that something like the Trek Domane or Giant Defy might work for you but would be limited in tyre clearence for anything but easy gravel. A decent S/H CX bike might be an option, a Giant TCX if you could lay your hands on one

I'd suggest the Giant TCX, full carbon. From memory they're about 2700 or thereabouts.

Just swap your knobblies for road slicks and away you go.

How would a 48/31T with a 11-34T cassette work as a winter road bike ? Currently on a 50/34T with an 11-32T cassette.

Rarely use the smallest, usually the 2nd smallest on a the bigger climbs like corkscrew hill or cliffs of mother to just spin up them but not used too often.

I mis-read , Yes I would use the hardest gearing at times but not too often - I find with my current 50/34T I can do most sunday club spins with high cadence in the 34T up front and only change to the 50T for downhills.

Thanks very much guys, with a 2nd wheel set it looks like the Grail maybe the way to go.

Have you looked at the Scott Addict Gravel? I was doing a gravel adventure with a guy this month that was riding on one and it was a lovely bike.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it looks much better in the video here

I’ve a v nice light giant revolt advanced carbon gravel bike with a carbon wheelset and a double chainring . Works really well on road and gravel with the double gearing . On the road it’s not much slower than my road bike and that’s with 35 gravel king tyres . . Actually its available to buy if anybody is interested medium size…Haven't Advertised it

Yes grx 810 , about 8.6kg without pedals . Pm if interested

It sounds from your original post that it's mainly road and only light gravel, in which case 30 to 32 mm tyres will be more than enough and therefore any disc braked road bike will work. Sure didn't a canyon cf slx win the gravel world champs? If you genuinely need 35+ then maybe you're better off getting a gravel bike and putting road wheels/tyres on it.

I spent several winters road training on a cantilever braked carbon Focus CX bike that I chucked road wheels and tyres to. I did the tour de Connemara on it in fact and it didn't slow me down one iota. You'd do well to narrow down your actual range of usage and then buy the most appropriate bike for that. If you're only really commuting or only going to be on very light gravel and only very occasionally, then it makes less and less sense to buy a bike that is designed specifically for that. ANY kind of a bike will manage a commute, and most bikes will put up with a bit of gravel too. In my experience CX bikes make savage road bikes.