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What Type Of Ridinig Do You Do?

Old 11-21-14, 07:37 PM
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Mostly the road with a lots of hills and some MTB with of course a lots of hills (plenty of them here) and more MTB when it is raining in the winter!

I should get my self a "low cost" bike with panniers to do local errands!
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Old 11-21-14, 07:46 PM
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I ride paved roads for fun and for transportation, dirt and gravel roads mostly for fun and singletrack MTB trails for fun.

I have a carbon road bike that is mostly for sporting rides, club rides and long (50-100 mile) rides exclusively on paved roads (well, maybe the occasional short stretch of smooth dirt road). I will replace this bike soon with a custom steel road bike.

I have a carbon CX bike that I use for dirt and gravel road rides. It has a very lightweight build with hydraulic disc brakes, tubeless tires and high end components. As much as I like it, I will be selling it soon to help pay for the custom road bike.

I also have a steel monstercross bike (CX with wider tire capacity) that I use for dirt and gravel road rides, especially when the roads are rougher or sandier. I have been known to take this bike on milder singletrack just because I can. This one stays.

I have a steel road bike that I mostly use for my 12 mile commute into town, though I have used it for long rides, light touring and MUP rides. It gets configured many different ways ranging from fixed gear to 1x10 to wide range triple. It will stay, too.

I have an aluminum hardtail MTB built up very light with 1X10 gears, carbon wheels (tubeless) and other carbon parts. I only ride it on MTB trails, mostly singletrack. I have done a couple of gravel road rides with it, but strongly prefer one of the drop bar bikes. I am on the lookout for a good steel hardtail frame to move all the parts onto. Or I may eventually go back to a full suspension bike for my mountain biking fun.

I have not done but would like to try bikepacking, either with the hardtail MTB or maybe a future 29+ rigid MTB. A fat bike could be in the future as well. So many kinds of biking, so little time or money.
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Old 11-21-14, 07:47 PM
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I'm strictly a road rider. Fortunate to have miles of great roads and friendly drivers right outside my door.
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Old 11-21-14, 07:59 PM
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Well, I don't currently have a unicycle, and haven't felt the need to put on racing spandex in awhile, and quit riding BMX a long time ago, but beyond that, I've got quite a few bases covered. The unicycle may come back into the mix if I can find a fair priced 36"er. I think it might be funny to see peoples reactions on my commute route, if I did it on a uni every now and then.
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Old 11-21-14, 08:08 PM
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100's of miles of trails for road bicycling on my steel Lemond; great trails for single track on my Spec RH; and I do a lot of errands - bank, store, Lowes, etc. on my Windsor Leeds; and sometimes I ride my Spec HR trainer in the basement, but not if I can help it!! I go to spinning class instead. I like to walk and hike and swim and lift weights, also.
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