As the world gets unnecessarily more complex: meetings to meet about... ahem... meetings--with this confusing backdrop, one bike--this bike--The Westlake--creates irrefutable simplicity. Lovely, glorious, wondrous simplicity through a wholehearted approach to being a bicycle. Not a gravel bike, not a road bike, not an enduro bike, not a KOM bike, PR bike, aero bike, training bike, or even aero training bike (it does exist, mind you). In a world of needless confusion, The Westlake provides straightforward bicycleness, one direct Shimano 1x9 shift at a time, as it should.