Tony Marley

My Catrike recumbent trike

Lazyass

blakcloud

If I had to choose only one bike, no doubt it would be my Trek Domane SL7. The bike is more than comfortable with the ISO speed, endurance fit and can take larger tires if need be.

To the OP, your choice of a Domane is good one. I think it will check all your boxes.

ofajen

Uhh, well I have five wheels for my vintage 26er MTB: a wheelset with Race King knobby tires for messy conditions, a wheelset with smooth Contact Speed tires for dry conditions and an extra rear wheel with a home trainer tire for the annual three or four weeks of Arctic hell when I actually ride indoors. Works great!

Actually at this time of year, I’ve been running the knobby Race King in front and the smooth Contact Speed in back. It’s not the full on mud mess we have in winter but still rains a little every few days to where it’s helpful to have a bit of grip so the front wheel doesn’t slip on turns. And there really isn’t much cost in terms of rolling resistance with the Race King on the front. It bears less weight and is amazingly fast.

Otto

AdkMtnMonster

So tell me- what/who, exactly, are you arguing about? I clearly stated that different kinds of riding need different kinds of bikes to be done well, and then you came in with a full diaper and started screaming that you want the teet again? Kids these days... maybe there’s an Instagram account out there that will help this one figure it out.

SkinGriz

Thats a really nice looking bike.

SkinGriz

Mostly agreeing with your previous post (I think).

In that it would seem any bike highly capable of going off road, can go on road easily as far as the function of the bike goes. I think. But probably slower.

But any bike designed exclusively for going fast on the road, would probably be a disaster going off road aggressively.

I don’t tweet. I remember maybe 3 years ago a couple beautiful young women walking by in Joshua Tree. They were not dressed for hiking or rock scrabbling. Didn’t make sense to me then my buddy I was enlisted with in a previous life says “For the gram.”

fettsvenska 

So if you're keeping your fat bike, then you have your mountain biking needs pretty much covered. I used to own a Pugsly and can say that it would handle most of your average off-road terrain just fine. So unless you're doing some serious technical terrain you've got yourself an adequate mountain bike. So for your other bike you could choose something like a Surly Cross Check or Gunnar Crosshairs (or other similar bikes) and then build it up so that it is more comfort oriented for your preferences. As per previous suggestions, I would also have an additional set of wheels that could easily be switched out.

GamblerGORD53

Easy choice for me, I hate gravel. Steel frame Roadster with long TT and a steel swept bar. Disc Rohloff14 with cable TRP Spyre and SA XL-FDD dyno drum brake in the front. I have used 28" x 36 mm tires almost my whole life. I have a 584 mm rim bike with SA RD3 now with 38 mm too. Any wider and I couldn't use my awesome Velocity Dyad rims.
My SA XL-RD5w is great when the shifting works and I'm not touring. I just bought such a #2 bike for my SA drum wheels.

SkinGriz

I never heard of 28inch wheels.

LSUFANDAN

I went with a 2021 Specialized Diverge Comp Carbon because I wanted to just have one versatile bike. That being said I haven't used it on anything other than the road. No off-road or gravel riding in its one year of use lol. I now have two wheel setups. I have the stock aluminum wheels setup with 38mm Pathfinder Pro wheels(this setup i never use). I also have a road setup with Roval CL50 wheels and 25mm GP5000 tires that never come off the bike.

Im now wondering if I made the wrong choice. The bike is great but it is a gravel bike that I use primarily as a road bike. Ive watched some youtube videos with Gravel Bike vs Road Bike comparisons. Most of the comparisons give a Road Bike maybe a 5% to 10% advantage on the road. With my wheel setup its probably closer to a 5% advantage. I still think about it it though. How much faster I would be on a Tarmac vs a Diverge. This is how people get suckered into buying that 2nd bike.

Flip Flop Rider

2 is the minimum

blakcloud

Look up Schwalbe tires, they use that nomenclature for their European tires and tubes.

Gresp15C

If Americans can use metric nomenclature that doesn't make sense, like 700c, then Europeans can use English nomenclature that doesn't make sense.

blakcloud

I do see the irony of what you are saying and I laughed when I read it. It is odd. Yet, I am only the messenger not the creator. of what Schwalbe does or doesn't do.

GamblerGORD53

The actual sizes were 28 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 1 5/8" ( 635 ) and also later 28" = 622 mm rim.
Then later 630 became 27", LOL.
British bikes were mostly these two 28" sizes until the 1980s. I rode all these sizes. There is no end to tire size craziness.

Gitane1

Hard to say what I'd ride if I literally had to reduce it just to one, but if it's about versatility (and most road and mountain bikes aren't that in my eyes) then it would have to be something with a Rohloff Speedhub in the back, sloping frame geometry and some proper disc brakes.

rydabent

I would stay at 2, the LWB bent, and my trike. That way I have the best tool for the ride at hand.

Viich

I could probably go down to 3 - one BMX bike, one utility/commute bike and a nicer road bike. I've not had the fitness/training type road bike at several times in the past, one always shows back up after a year or two.

I currently have separate utility/commute bikes for summer and winter (I really like the summer one, but won't fit my studded tires) that I could go down to one, 3 BMX bikes -20" and 24" race bikes + a park bike. I could be fine with just the 20" race bike if I was short on space, I don't do grinding, and have a steel frame 20" race bike anyway.

My dirt jumper could go, and my second road bike and folding recumbent are both for sale anyway.

ofajen

At the moment it’s looking like the vintage 26er SS MTB is the only bike I will use. All my rides involve trails to some degree. The rail trails have flood damaged sections that have been patched with deep loose stone and it’s better to surf that with 26x2.0 than 700x32.

Even if I get gutsy and start to do some single track, I can just set that bike up a double SS drivetrain with 42/16 for mellow trails and 38/20 for single track. At least I would run the 16/20 cogs on the knobby tire rear wheel.

Otto

Parkyy16

If I could store the bike inside at work and not outside on a bike rack, I'd be willing to go with an endurance road bike or a gravel bike with an endurance road geometry. I'd probably keep mudguards on it full time for commuting in the rain.

Maybe add in a breakaway or S&S coupler for occasional travel?

Huh, I think maybe the Ritchey Outback/SwissCross Breakaway could be my 1 bike. Everything else could be covered by having two different wheelsets, various bar setups, etc.

onekgguy

Most gravel bikes would fulfill your needs I would think. I have a Giant Revolt Advanced 0 that takes me just about anywhere I need to go on a bike with the exception of some singletrack trails where it's a little out of place.

Kevin g

Leo001

the Domane is on the short list (also in short supply) as well as a Lynskey R300

bwilli88 

This is probably the first one I would think of.

DMC707

great choice ! John Stamstad (former winner of Iditabike, RAAM, and countless other things ) rides a Cutthroat !

PErsonally if i had a Cutthroat, i would swap the drop bars for Jones H bars and mountain bike controls -- the cockpit is shorter than a mountain bikes --