Vitus Substance CRS2 Gravel bike

Considering buying one of these as the “do anything” bike, commuting through the week, winter training bike and gravel bike if I ever wanted to get dirty.
Anyone own one that could give an opinion. The specs look good for what I want and want to spend (tubeless, disc and grx) but specs can be deceiving. Very few ( none) reviews that I can find. Any info would be great.
Anyone own one that could give an opinion. The specs look good for what I want and want to spend (tubeless, disc and grx) but specs can be deceiving. Very few ( none) reviews that I can find. Any info would be great.
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I think that Vitus use a rebranded Carbonda CFR696 frame - as do people like Planet-X with their strangely named Free Ranger.
However, there are none of the Vitus bikes available at the moment, so I ended up going with a Planet-X 1x Free Ranger that comes with a Force groupset.
I considered the steel ones too, but the price was higher when I looked and as it needs to double up as my winter bike for fast group rides, I settled elsewhere.
I use a set of 700c wheels with Gravel King 32 slicks and full guards in the winter - IMO the tyres are only very slightly slower than pure road tyres and are robust and have good grip on bad roads in bad weather.
One thing to mention these bikes run a bit large so consider this when/if buying.... as it turns out this is borderline too big but seeing as I crashed it I can’t return it.