[AngryScientist]

reading the guidance on the website:

The optimal bike choice in our opinion is going to be a CX bike with 38c or bigger tires, or a mountain bike hard tail.

Like any good, challenging gravel course, there is no single bike that will be best suited for the entire route. Bike strategy will be at play in the race. Some sections will benefit a mountain bike, while most will benefit a gravel bike. Rule of thumb: if your plan is to hammer and go as fast as possible, ride a gravel bike with 40c tires. If your plan is maximum fun, enjoy the ride and rally the downhills, pull out a fast and light mountain bike.

Badenough Canyon Road is being eliminated from the 2019 Course.


This course change will cause the event to favor cross bikes more so than the inaugural edition did. Mileage will slightly increase, but the course will get faster, and if conditions permit we'll be adding some elevation.

i'd go with these:

https://www.biketiresdirect.com/prod...SABEgKuYvD_BwE