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Finally, something I feel qualified to answer! My touring friend had the Horizon Plus and was pretty happy with them, but struggled a bit on singletrack/bumpier gravel roads, especially when it was wet with slippy rocks/roots. The Venture Roads gave that tiny bit more confidence off-road (could've been psychological, who knows) and were perfectly fine on-road.
I'm not sure about your bike handling skills but as always, YMMV.
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Was having trouble finding a 5-bolt 94BCD chainring - I can't afford Stridsland and didn't want to go with the Atelier Medium knockoffs.
Managed to find this after some Googling - https://pq-bike.com/collections/94bcd/products/pass-quest-110-bcd-5-bolt-oval-narrow-wide-chainring-%E7%9A%84%E5%89%AF%E6%9C%AC
Doesn't seem like a scam (has AliExpress and Tabao stores) plus I paid with PayPal just to be sure. It's been shipped, will see what's what.
It's arrived! Fairly decent shipping speed and looks good too. Included bolts too which was nice.

Some wild chinglish on the instructions too!
"under the fine tune, the variable speed, the success"
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They do, but they still wear.
My advice would be gloves - keep the hand sweat and oils off the grip as much as possible.