Which Thunderburts? The Super Race (tanwall) of Super Ground (black)? How have they held up?
I’m super happy with my Conti Racekings but i like trying new tires 
@FrankTuna They’re black and came with the bike. I haven’t gone easy on them by any means, I have 400 miles of everything from tarmac, to gravel, to rough single track with zero issues. I have always heard bad things about Schwalbe but I am very impressed with this tire and will continue to run them.
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At the risk of going too far off topic, I feel like they could have an unofficial way of wearing the rainbow bands. Like white jersey if you’re the current WC in that discipline and a black jersey if your WC is from a different discipline, like a track guy riding gravel or a CX champ riding their road bike. Or just wear it on the arm bands.
I guess, but when I consider a parallel to motorsports which I follow more than cycling racing…
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I don’t think most people in NASCAR would care or recognize that someone from another discipline (Rally, F1, IMSA, Indycar, etc.) hopped across to race with them. Same goes in most other directions.
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We see plenty of people stepping between these over the years, with some notable ones that repeat like drivers shooting for the double between Coke 600 and Indy 500, anyone jumping into the Rolex 24hr and other examples of marquee events.
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There is always talk about their background and success in their main area, but I don’t think it makes sense for them to carry a World Champ branding into that new/different area. Similarities to be sure, but they are not the same and should be kept to the place they were earned.
That or maybe I should take my #1 Cat Dad coffee mug with me & my friends when we head to the dog park 
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So in the past, the UCI allowed you to wear the rainbow stripes on your arm bands no matter what discipline you were riding at the time vs. what discipline you won the jersey in (or when). Here is Stuart O’Grady back in the 90’s riding the road after he won a jersey on the track…
Additionally, you could wear the full jersey if you were a reigning WC in another discipline and the race organizer asked / allowed you to wear it. I can still remember Mike McCarthy wearing his jersey in crits around Denver back in the early 90’s because organizers asked him to.
I’m not certain what year they changed that rule, but I think it was ~2000. From then on, you could only wear the bands in the discipline that you won the jersey in.
AFAIK, there are no restrictions on the stripes on your bike…but it is kinda bad form, IMO, to sport the stripes in a discipline other than the one you won them in.
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No, a gravel bike isn’t a road bike: both are different drop bar bikes. And I was speaking about road bikes only.
Although I think I understand your larger point and actually agree with it: in my mind most endurance road bikes should just be gravel bikes with gravel bike gearing and clearance for wide tires. We can argue whether accepting mountain bike tires (like e. g. the Open UP does) is necessary, but I’d say there should be space for 40 mm 700c tires. So I think gravel bikes should play the role that most endurance road bikes do right now, but currently according to market segmentation they aren’t. You see that in Shimano’s unnecessary market segmentation with a compatibility chart that boggles the mind. SRAM’s drop bar electronic groupsets are much more flexible in that respect.
But going back, if you limit yourself to road bike groupsets (in Shimano’s definition) and SRAM road bike-specific cranks, the lowest gears you can get on a 2x setup are lower with SRAM than Shimano, you pretty much get an extra gear — not perfect, but a move in the right direction.
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