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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ohio
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Bikes: Trek xo2, Fuji Cross Pro, Schwinn Traveler cross-conversion, Concours, Trek 2300, Takara, Specialized Hard Rock, Bianchi Campione D'Italia, GT LTS Team issue, BikeE, Miyata 110, and some others. Somewhere.
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I say go for it. My 'cross bike has seen centuries, gnarly mtb trails, a few 'cross races. To me, it's very comfortable, I give up little in the way of speed vs. a modern roadie machine when I put slicks on it. Much slower going on the rooty, rocky off-road stuff vs. a MTB, but you'll have that.
As for the 'cross bikes having a higher bottom bracket, it depends any more. Some do, some don't. More don't have a high bottom bracket. And to some people, the higher bottom bracket means nothing, some people get all worked up about it.
Thing is, what you need to do is get on a few and ride them around. For me, it works wonderfully. And I'm not stuck riding 23c tires that I have to pump up to 100 lbs. that will then shake the crap out of me if we hit chip-seal road.