[berserk87]

Road cycling: I can leave from my front door and go for a good couple of hours, or more. To get into the boonies takes less than 5 minutes for me. Zero downtime other than loading bottles and putting on my kit.

Gravel cycling: I can leave from my front door and take an hour to get to the nearest gravel road. So to make it worthwhile, I would have to commit to a three or four hour ride, mixing about half pavement and half gravel.

Or I can pack up and drive 30 minutes and park someplace, and then ride on gravel. That adds more than an hour of non-riding time to my commitment, between packing my stuff, loading the car and driving.

This is one reason that I don't have a gravel road bike. I don't want to take the time messing around with driving to a ride anymore.