Trek Bicycle today launched the all-new Checkout, a full suspension drop bar gravel bike it says it designed for "epic, off-the-beaten-path adventures". Designed to be faster than a mountain bike on paved roads and more capable than a rigid gravel bike on singletrack, it is, it says, "the ideal rig for road-to-gravel-to-singletrack adventures, ultra-endurance events, extended bikepacking trips, and more".
It certainly turned a few heads here at CW when the press release dropped. But with gravel now regularly flicking through MTB's catalogues for suitable tyres, MTB has been content with borrowing our drop bars, till now. Let's see what the MTB's say now their full suspension is moving over to gravel too.
