Originally Posted by
cehowardGS
I know long cages and triple chainrings are on tourers, but how can you tell a bike is a sport tourer oppose to say like a Raleight Professional or Centurion Ironman?
Key visual "giveaways": Eyelets on the dropouts, slightly longer chainstays (a pure racing bike will have virtually no clearance between the rear tire and the seat tube, whereas a less-racy design will yield a bit more space there). There are other, subtler cues, as well, but those are the easiest to spot.