After 25 years on a cyclocross bike, test-rode gravel bikes from Giant, Specialized, Trek, Santa Cruz, Spot and Pivot and bought a new Pivot Vault (size M, Force AXS, DT Swiss CR1600 wheels): it was simply the best of them.
“I rode their Rallye gravel bike and it was good and I would have been a happy owner of that bike, but the Pivot Vault (size M, AXS Force, DT Swiss CR1600 wheels) was just the best.”