So how rough of a place will you ride your hybrid/comfort bike?
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So how rough of a place will you ride your hybrid/comfort bike?
Just curious how rough of a place will you ride your hybrid? The first mountain bike that I saw in the early 90's looked pretty similar to the comfort bike I own now.
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With the right gearing and tires I imagine you can go just about anywhere although it's probably going to be a heavier bike than a good MTB .
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It depends on your wheels. I built a pair out of Mavic A719 rims, Ultegra hubs, and DT 14-15-14 gauge spokes - 36 rear and 32 front. Those wheels could handle Yak-paths in Tibet! Make for very tough touring wheels. The usual phrase is "Bombproof." Yet they don't weigh a ton.
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Where will you ride yours?
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Mostly the paved streets in the neighborhood, but this fall, after I get my endurance built up, going to do the Virginia Creeper Trail (I see you're from VA).
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We used to ride our cruisers everywhere!
We all thought they were indestructible! Guess what?....We were right!
With wide tires, you can practically ride your bike anywhere. However, like somebody else said, I'd try to avoid rock gardens, unless I had a 40-50mm wide tire.
We all thought they were indestructible! Guess what?....We were right!
With wide tires, you can practically ride your bike anywhere. However, like somebody else said, I'd try to avoid rock gardens, unless I had a 40-50mm wide tire.
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Definitely aluminum would have been a better choice for wider versatility. I had mountain bikes for 16 years and decided that I only wanted to ride rail trails. Having a $800 aluminum frame mountain bike with air shox and riding 95% rail trails makes no sense to me. The RX carbon is more of a road bike to me.
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I used to ride rooty, rocky, and twisted singletrack on my Trek 7500 (on 700:35 cross tyres) and figure the new old BRC with it's knobby 700:32 cross tyres is like a 29'r light... I also have some 700:38 tyres and in measuring it out think it would take a set of 29'r wheels with 2.0 / 50mm tyres.
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My choices are more limited by bike handling skills and weight than the bike... My current setup does well on gravel rail trails, but when I hone my skills to what they were when I rode my cruiser through the woods and lose weight, I wouldn't hesitate to ride some easy single track, or maybe some technical stuff, although my pace now would be slower than back in the day.
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When I said roughest place you ride I was thinking type of surface, but this is pretty funny.