“The geometry & spec compromises that need to be made… result in a bike that’s a bummer to ride outside of the worst surface conditions.”

This is a joke, right? Plenty of small builders are making seriously great high clearance bikes now. I’ve thrown 45c Schwalbe Marathons on my gravel bike (that clears 700×55) and ridden the entire California coast without thinking “Wow. I’m not riding absolute garbage conditions, this is a real bummer.”

That said, Stinner found a value proposition and a market for a road++ bike that they want a piece of, and more choices are better. Good for them.

Is it? A Lynskey GR 300 with a 1x Apex AXS group is running < $2500 right now.

40mm is plenty of tire for 90% of the riding most would do with a drop-bar bike. Most graven isn’t like Unbound 200 gravel. The geometry & spec compromises that need to be made to clear anything bigger than a 50 (safely..) result in a bike that’s a bummer to ride outside of the worst surface conditions.

For who? I have zero gravel roads within 100 miles of me.
And as an old head I still ride my old rig with down tube shifters once a week.
A comment like that tells me you do more time checking numbers than riding.
I’m on my last set of 23mm tires and while many will scoff, I’m not racing and churning out numbers better in my 50s than my 20s.
Enjoy the ride man before you find yourself yelling at a cloud.

The Stinner Refugio is our dedicated gravel bike with clearance up to 700x50mm. The Carrizo fills the gap between our pure road bike, the Gibraltar, and the Refugio. The Carrizo can accommodate a 2x drivetrain if you wanted to build up a frameset. The 1x XPLR AXS drivetrain was spec’d on the complete to keep it simple and user friendly. While it might not be a dedicated road or gravel bike, it still has the versatility to take you wherever you want to go.

That’s fair. When I see an “all-road bike” with an XPLR drivechain, I assume it’s intended for gravel use as well. Maybe I’ve misinterpreted the use case for this bike.

This new Carrizo all-road bike

40mm tire clearance is plenty for a bike that is intended to stay on roads of varying quality