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Ride whatever bike you want, just get what suits the type of riding you want to do. I rode from the Canadian border to San Diego on my Giant Contend and had a great time. It's my year round bike so I figured I'd buy some cheap bikepacking bags on Amazon and stealth camp in a bivvy the whole way down and it was perfect. In the future I'll use a Giant TCR because I like riding twisty tarmac mountain roads but I'd go with a hardtail if I was doing legravel and off-road stuff