Bikes, a thread reborn

[Scythe13]

100% with you on this Joe. My ideal for the road would be a roadbike. Big love for Specialized and Trek with affordability. Off road, a dedicated mountain bike would be ideal. But if you're mixing it up between the two, which is most likely, then a gravel bike would be the winner. It's unlikely anyone would be dumb enough to really try a fully loaded bike and try hitting the trails. It'd be painfully slow getting to the trails and once there, you'd need to be uber slow too as the bike would be so laden. What I would expect would be for people to mainly stick to paths and roads with the ocassional "Mellow" off road track that would be ideal for a gravel bike. Anything beyond that is, in my opinion, taking too high a risk at a time when accidents cannot be resolved by calling in an air ambulance.

The only time when a dedicated MTB would make sense would be when it was wet underfoot and you were off road. But if it's like that, would you risk going out over that kind of terrain? Unlikely, in my opinion.