Rohloff Gravel bike recommendations?

[swayzak]

I (simplistically perhaps) thought a gravel bike is basically a road-style bike (eg drop handle bars) which is made to cope with a larger variety of surfaces (and the transition between)

eg smooth(ish) tarmac roads, pavements, cycle paths, gravel tracks

Higher clearance, slightly wider tyres etc than road bike

So allowing a more flexible ride (surface-wise)

I might be wrong though!

[PH]

Obviously just me, but I can still not understand why drop bars are used when riding off road.  But then I have never tried.

I don't get it either, though I'm usually of the opinion that things I don't get are probably not aimed at me.  It isn't just the drop bars, the other common elements of the sorts of Gravel bikes I come across - steep seat tube, short chainstays, short headtube, fast steering - wouldn't suit me either, on or off road.  However, there's a long tradition of drop bars off road, it's always been the default for cyclocross and it's the norm in all the nostalgic Rough Stuff Fellowship photos.