Visiting rAdelaide - road bike or gravel?

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I’ll be visiting Adelaide in a couple of weeks, staying in Brighton. I expect (hope) to be able to get 2 or 3 rides in whilst I’m there - maybe one long-ish and one or two shorter ones. I know nothing of the riding there other than what I’ve seen from afar of the TDU, though, so I’m struggling to decide whether to take a road bike or my gravel bike.

Whilst it would be nice to tick off Mt Lofty and Willunga Hill, I’m a massive fan of gravel riding - especially if it’s of the ‘champagne gravel’ variety that we definitely do not have here in Sydney. On that basis, I’m torn.

Proximity to our base in Brighton and ease of getting to the riding in question is the key as I won’t have use of a car. If decent gravel riding is going to involve a heap of road riding to get to it, I’d probably just rather take a road bike.

Any locals care to share some advice?

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Great gravel from the top of norton summit climb - Debneys, Blockers, Gully, etc . So if you can imagine getting there on your gravel rig from Brighton then you’re set. Otherwise you can head up New Belair road, (which would be closer to Brighton) and get nto some nice gravel past there towards Scott Creek . All this is to say that most gravel is accessible from a decent steady road climb, but that it ends up being a decent 3 hour ride.

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