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I love my road bikes, despite their current dust gathering duties, they are mine and I hug them.
l'm with you there ... to a point ;-) Any chance of some pics of your CX, sounds top notch.mrdryskull":3lfx9mhq said:If I ever had to go to just one bike..God forbid...It would be an easy choice.
My Reynolds 853 Cyclocross,,and a spare set of road wheels.
I can ride anything a retro mountain bike can do,,and I have a road bike with better brakes.
legrandefromage":2y21vs2v said:I can only think that this is to keep the MTB crossovers happy as they 'get into a bit of road riding' (and novices too?). Early 90's MTB and road had very similar riding positions for a while before MTB got all freeridey, trials etc bring the arse down and the bars up.
Titiritero":asgivqa6 said:I owned for a short while a beautiful second hand Olmo road bike, with nice lugged steel, mostly "to try the road thing".
However, I ended up selling it. I prefer the versatility of my other bikes (changing from asphalt to good paths to challenging singletrack, adding/removing mudguards, playing with the tire width, adding/removing racks...). The road bike was too constraining for my liking, only road, which is something I enjoy less everyday due to the increasing traffic and speed of today's drivers.
Whenever I need to do a 100% road ride, I just take my tourer with drop bars, which allows me to put up to 700x45 tires and get to a dirt track if needed, or add mudguards in winter, or a rack for the commute, while barely affecting my overall speed (no doubt due to my low fitness level ).
The fixie fashion and the fact that most bikes in the last 20 years come with overpriced STI shifters has also severely increased road bike prices, and it's nearly impossible to find a new entry level bike for less than 600-800 EUR. And the nice old ones with steel frames have all been bought by hipsters to convert/destroy them into fixies so now it's cheaper to buy a 5 year old bike than a 15 year old one, even if the latter has worse components...
Mike Muz 67":1n9844b6 said:Why get a new one? 500 - 800 € will get you a lot of bike on this forum. With or without Sti levers
Mike