Pinarello

This bike is fantastic! It offers an exceptionally comfortable riding position, allowing you to spend hours in the saddle, enjoying every mile to the fullest. The wheels are another highlight, providing great stability and responsiveness, while the new SRAM Force groupset leaves nothing to be desired. Aside from perhaps a wider saddle, there's nothing else to change ' just take it out of the box and ride! A true gravel machine!

I've owned well over a dozen high-end road bikes over the past 25 years. This is far and away the best riding bike I've owned. I should note that many of my other bikes are/were all-out race bikes (i.e., the bikes that the TdF pros rode), so they compromised comfort for performance. But I've also owned a few endurance bikes that were nowhere near as comfortable as this one.

The Dogma X is aimed at the rider seeking a more comfortable ride without giving up much on the performance front. And I think Pinarello has succeeded admirably. It feels fast and responsive, and my ride times for my regular routes are about the same as my race bikes, but I don't feel nearly as "beat up" at the end of the ride.

The handling is solid, with excellent grip in the corners. It's not quite as nimble as some of my race bikes, but is plenty responsive to avoid obstacles.

Since acquiring this bike last year, I've decided to sell several of my other road bikes. I used to like switching between them to get a bit of a different flavor, but I haven't ridden anything but this bike since getting it. It's that good.