Best gravel bikes: Our favourite bikes for drop-bar off-road action

A cyclist rides one of the best gravel bikes along a dirt road

The best gravel bikes let you take on untarmacked surfaces, but will in most cases allow you to keep up a good turn of speed on-road too, so that you can head to a wider range of places.

We tested a range of gravel machines in our Cyclingnews gravel bike awards field test. We pitted a range of gravel bikes under a price point of £4000 against one another and learned a lot in doing so.  

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Paul has been on two wheels since he was in his teens and he's spent much of the time since writing about bikes and the associated tech. He's a road cyclist at heart but his adventurous curiosity means Paul has been riding gravel since well before it was cool, adapting his cyclo-cross bike to ride all-day off-road epics and putting road kit to the ultimate test along the way. Paul has contributed to Cyclingnews' tech coverage for a few years, helping to maintain the freshness of our buying guides and deals content, as well as writing a number of our voucher code pages. 

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