So I came across a video review of the Ritchey Outback Breakaway on Cycling tips.. and they mentioned what they didn't like about the bike: One of the things; the bike was spec'ed with 650B wide internal rims 30+ and 2.1 Gravelking SS tires and they complained that the super wide rims on these 2.1s squared the tire off to much and made for awkward cornering.
Ritchey's new Outback gravel bike is greater than the sum of its parts.
cyclingtips.com
"Based on discussions with several colleagues that also rode the bike, the wheelset seems the most likely culprit. There’s not the clearance on the Outback for tyres much wider than what I was running here, which were Panaracer Gravel King SS+ in a 650b x 48 mm width, which measured up here at 52 mm (or, about 2.05”). For the tyre sizes that the Outback is capable of accommodating – which is listed at 650b x 2.0” – that leads me to suspect that a 35 mm internal rim width is a bit too much, squaring off the tyre shape and introducing that funk into the handling. "